Haven’t been playing for some months; now everytime I want to start a “Free flight” I get the error “Unexpected error”: “You cannot launch this flight and enter the sim. This may be due to multiple reasons. Please try again later.”
Challenges are playable; career mode flights won’t start (no error, but endless loop during loading after I want to start a flight).
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
every time
REPRODUCTION STEPS
Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:
start FS 2024
go to “Free Flight”
Start with whatever plane on whatever airpot, try to start the flight
YOUR SETTINGS
I cleaned the cache, rebooted, logged out of /store/xbox, re-logged-in; cleaned the community folder etcpp, nothing helped.
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Found the solution, gave me some gray hairs: It seems that files APPDATA…/Localstate could not be accessed by my user - if as an admin I could not fix that. So I deleted the complete folder. This helped, the sim is starting. Fun fact: after another software update, same thing happened, same solution. So something seems to be fishy with my installer/user/setup, whatever.
Could you let me know the exact location where you had MSFS 2024 installed? Please provide the full installation path (for example, C:\XboxGames\Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 or any custom location you selected ; for example G:\ …
