Lost all preferences/settings

[sauviat 137]

4 minutes ago, atco said:

Mine updated yesterday sadly

Mine this morning:(

[Twenty6 692]

14 minutes ago, atco said:

Short of using the workaround posted by Tenpatrol there seems to be no way of avoiding this issue as Gaming Services will update itself even if auto-updates are turned off so it seems to depend on when Gaming Services decides to update itself. Mine updated yesterday sadly.

I was afraid you were going to say that. It's like having to wait for a root canal appt. with the dentist.

Try this address if you're getting an ACCESS DENIED for the gaming service: https://easyupload.io/1rvkkp

[sauviat 137]

Interesting, I just disabled all my files in the community folder - vanilla - and I have MSFS launching as usual.

Martin

 

[hjsmuc 393]

28 minutes ago, sauviat said:

Interesting, I just disabled all my files in the community folder - vanilla - and I have MSFS launching as usual.

Negative here. Same issue, sim starting from scratch, with or without any entries in the community folder. 

[sauviat 137]

For now, touch wood, I'm not turning off the sim until tonight. As it's an MS issue, we will have to wait for a hot fix as this is having a global wide impasse.

[ADamiani 470]

5 hours ago, Twenty6 said:

I have MSFS2020 installed into "E:\MSFS" and (knock on wood) don't seem to be having this problem. I'm wondering if this only affects those who installed into the default directory? Or possibly some other limiting factor? What's the common denominator shared by those losing their settings?

Nope, mine is in drive Q: 

And generally speaking: while I invested thousands of euros on simulators, I am not going to buy anything for ms2020: not when a Microsoft programmer can brick it in a minute.

It will be vanilla sim and freeware for me: forget the Marketplace.

Andrea

[Fielder 3,647]

Regarding the 'workaround' which starts like this...

WORKAROUND

1 Uninstall gaming.service app via powershell
- open powershell as admin

 

Well, here is how to run powershell as an administrator.

type powershell into the Windows Search box (as I did below).

on the resulting top selection (powershell.exe) right click it and select 'run as administrator:

 

[felixfer 20]

I have tested the TenPatrol fix and I can tell you that it works; first time you need to reload your profiles and settings, but after that everything is OK.

Thanks a lot, TenPatrol.

Edited February 21, 2021 by felixfer

[atco 161]

Thankfully according to user DarkClown over at the official forums there is a fix being worked on.
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/ui-broken-and-reset-user-settings/368832/376

"MS is aware of the Gaming Services issue and is working on it."

"Hi, my day job is working on Xbox. Once I knew for sure this was a GS issue I contacted the developer directly"

"I don’t own the component and don’t want to speak for the team nor am I posting in any official capacity. Just know they are working on it and will have a fix ASAP. The reason why this isn’t impacting everyone is the update was pushed to various flight rings. (insider/preview groups you join.)"

 

[Andreas Stangenes 1,628]

I also keep loosing all my settings everytime I start the sim. Super annoying! 

[Twenty6 692]

Hopefully Microsoft stopped pushing the game services update out until they fix the issue. Or I wonder if it's even occurred to them to stop pushing it out?

[Ianrivaldosmith 5,317]

This just started happening to me now, super annoying. 

[simon747 185]

27 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

This just started happening to me now, super annoying. 

Same here; every time I start I loose all my pages of settings,  views everything.  Each time I start the sim it is as if I have never used it despite just re-entering al the settings again.  Horrible mess!!!!

[simon747 185]

Hope for a fix; what a disaster!

[Bilbosmeggins 217]

I’ve been working away for the last 10 days, so have missed all of the update shenanigans. I was looking forward to flying as soon as I got home, however, after reading this lot, I don’t think it’s in my interest to power the PC up. Looks like it’s DCS time until MS get the mess cleared up.