"Press Any Key to Start" Problem Potential Fix

[b1bmsgt 207]

Hi!

To all those who are having problems getting a keypress to take on the opening Press any key to Start screen, I found that if I press my left mouse button before pressing a key, it takes the keypress right away. Don't know if it will work for anyone else, but it does for me...

Russ

[dobee51 348]

If you press a key and the game doesn't start, you should mouse-click on the start screen too.

Sometimes another application may still have the focus, and the keypress doesn't work. 

 

[wthomas33065 994]

Yeah, I've run into that to.  It's almost as if the program starts "out of focus" from a keyboard standpoint and you have to left click on the mouse to put the program back into focus.

[Elvensmith 165]

I find double or triple clicking LMB does the trick rather than mashing the keyboard. Very surprised this wasn't actually fixed in the first patch.

[EvidencePlz 276]

can confirm this is an issue. but didn't zendesk it cause it wasn't a deal-breaker

[__v__ 16]

15 hours ago, Elvensmith said:

I find double or triple clicking LMB does the trick rather than mashing the keyboard. Very surprised this wasn't actually fixed in the first patch.

I'm surprised they haven't just gotten rid of this stupid screen. It provides zero value to the user. I already launched the sim, why would I need to be prompted to 'start'? It's a pointless step and has obviously just created another point of failure for no reason.

[Chock 17,769]

[pjs37 319]

The reason for this is almost entirely because of their intent to port this to XBox at some point.  It's likely similar to the reason so many other games have this what is seemingly a useless feature.  Its simply to meet the requirements of the licensing program for the consoles.  Part of the certification process is how long before first interactivity in a game upon loading.  The idea of this rule is so that gamers get a good experience on loading their games and from the time they start to the time they interact.  The problem is games have gotten so large and complex that this is often not enough time so what developers do will have "Push <button> to continue" and then continues the loading process this meets the requirements of the various console certification programs like "30 seconds before first interactivity" and also lets developers to continue to load the game as needed.
 

[Chock 17,769]

9 minutes ago, pjs37 said:

The reason for this is almost entirely because of their intent to port this to XBox at some point.

Yup, as you say, this is indeed the reason.

So yeah it's annoying, but as we know, the fact that it is going to be ported to consoles is half the reason it even exists for the PC; it's kind of the price we have to pay for actually having a new iteration of the Flight Simulator series at all.

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Edited September 9, 2020 by Chock

[Kilo60 660]

37 minutes ago, Chock said:

LMAO!

[Boomer 1,619]

left mouse first then keystroke fixes.

Edited September 11, 2020 by Boomer

[0861GUNS 6]

Thank you all. I just joined AVSIM. This is the only place that solved this problem for me. In my case just pressing the left mouse button works, in just a few seconds I'm on the Welcome screen.

[bobcat999 8,483]

15 hours ago, 0861GUNS said:

Thank you all. I just joined AVSIM. This is the only place that solved this problem for me. In my case just pressing the left mouse button works, in just a few seconds I'm on the Welcome screen.

Welcome bud!  👍 

Pressing LMB works for me as well but sometimes takes two clicks.  Maybe one is to add focus back to the screen, as I Alt-tab out during loading to set up VFRMap.