"Start" button sometimes doesn't appear after loading is complete

Agathorn1975 · November 24, 2024, 2:25pm

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:
After loading is complete you normally are presented with a “Start” button/tile that you have to press to get into the main menu.

Sometimes when loading is complete, that button doesn’t appear and you have to quit and restart.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?
Yes

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?

It only occurs intermittently. For me it has happened twice out of about 10 loads at a guess.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Start the game

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using, if relevant:

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
No

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
4090

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
AMD 7950X3D

MEDIA

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SkinnyBigRed910 · November 26, 2024, 10:51pm

Sames here… Have tried to load 3 separate fresh installs and now it’s doing the same thing… no way to start the sim. (for a few tries it worked for about 3-5 min and then crashed every flight)

WittierWig50871 · November 30, 2024, 5:22pm

I have the same thing. Just yet, when I launch a missile at ppl, the initial mission to fly over the airfield is launched

VanIsle737 · November 30, 2024, 5:36pm

Same problem here. 99% of the time I only have the quit to desktop tab. Cannot enter the game. Any ideas to get into the game menu? Currently locked out because of this.

yogibaboo1 · December 3, 2024, 9:45am

Same here. Was unable to start the sim for 3 consecutive days now. Neither any workaround found, seems not too many ppl experience this specific issue.

yogibaboo1 · December 3, 2024, 4:49pm

This solved the problem for me: Still stuck on loading screen at 98% - #3 by Blitzer303

guenseli · December 4, 2024, 7:20am

Have the same issue now.
Won’t go that way to delete my CloudSaves now … but who knows.
Tried now several times …

guenseli · December 4, 2024, 7:23am

Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
Yes

Provide extra information to complete the original description of the issue:
nothing else to say. Start sim, wait loading, start button does not appear, only quit to desktop

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• same as OP

ResetXPDR · December 4, 2024, 8:26am

Same here. I’ve had it happen just a handful of times since MSFS 2024 was released. It just happened to me three times in a row, so I rebooted and it finally gave me a start button.

guenseli · December 4, 2024, 1:39pm

Still struggling with it out of nowwhere since this morning.
sometimes it works, most times not.
I do not see any replicable pattern.

Community folder empty.
XBOX logged out and in.
PC restart. (several times)
Time synched (was synched, but who knows)

Will now go the hard way to delete the CloudSaves

guenseli · December 4, 2024, 2:41pm

Deleting the CloudSaves helped, see link some topics above.

Settings and Asignments will get lost.
Career is saved.

For Assignments you can use that Backup tool:
MSFS Control Profile Backuptool for Microsoft Flight Simulator | MSFS

Hope, Microsoft does that never again now!!!

Agathorn1975 · December 4, 2024, 2:54pm

I suspect either you had a different bug, or it just is a coicidence that it helped.
I say this because the problem I reported is that SOMETIMES the Start button isn’t there. It’s low occurence, therefore there is really no way I could have corrupt data. That would cause the issue to occur every single time.

Certainly good to know, especially if someone does have this occuring every time rather than every now and then. For me though when it happens I just hace to quit to desktop and re-run it and it has always been fine the next time.

guenseli · December 4, 2024, 3:47pm

I even can’t imagine what provokes such a bad bug …

In my case it was 50 / 50 working or not.
I even started the sim several times in a row with changing nothing and sometimes it has worked, soemtimes not.

Now it is fixed … hopefully forever

ATBandre · December 4, 2024, 7:27pm

I have the same issue right now. No start button anymore and it’s getting more and more often!

charliebravo737 · December 5, 2024, 5:20pm

Same issue, nearly every second launch of the sim. Kill it, start it again and then it works…

ResetXPDR · December 5, 2024, 7:51pm

I agree it seems to be happening more often. It took 3 retries before I could start 2024 today!

NicoBubic · December 6, 2024, 12:07pm

it just started for me today, have not had it before. Its one thing after another with MSFS…

ATBandre · December 6, 2024, 12:44pm

Why is nobody at Asobo is taking care about things like this? I don’t get it. Loading sticks mostly at 56 percent or it loads and then there is no start button! It’s so frustrating!! Not able to even start the game it such a shame!

Krantz3544 · December 7, 2024, 12:02pm

TouchablePizza · December 7, 2024, 4:17pm

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: after the initial loading screen the accessibility and start buttons do not appear, can only click esc to exit to desktop

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue? Yes