OK. Back running.  No earthly idea what caused the problem as yesterday's 3.0 hour flight was among the flights I have had with no issues.  So I missed my scheduled flight from Omaha (college world series) to Chicago for today's White Sox vs Twins game.  So tomorrow I will see if I can get started on a flight from Omaha to Detroit for tomorrow's White Sox game...... 

I feel like a traveler who today had a flight cancelled, with no timely later flight available, and with no explanation for the flight cancellation!  Should I not at least receive a voucher??????

Oh!  And do I need to now go in to the Profiles and rid myself of those extra Asobo "club" liveries I never wanted in the first place?  

Perhaps this was all because I did not join the "club".

Long shot, but before it started refusing to run did you have any problems with control profiles getting mixed and/or corrupted ?

I've now had that happen several times resulting in the sim refusing to start - on a couple of occasions I've managed to identify the medded up profile, remove it and the sim has started working again but on others I've ended up wiping and reinstalling.

29 minutes ago, Matchstick said:

Long shot, but before it started refusing to run did you have any problems with control profiles getting mixed and/or corrupted ?

No! Absolutely no warning.  Very good 3.0 hour flight yesterday.  Normal shutdown.  Then this morning issues.  Nothing new.  No additions (with addons linker) to Community.  No changes in controls settings as I did not ever get past the screen I showed earlier in this topic.  Just no explanation for it.

Frank, here is the fix:

to resolve this issue, try reinstalling the Gaming Services app on your Windows 10 device:
Right-click the Start button  in the lower-left corner of the main screen, and then select Windows PowerShell (Admin).
In the Administrator: Windows PowerShell screen, type the following command and press Enter:
Get-AppxPackage *gamingservices* -allusers | remove-appxpackage -allusers
In the same window, type the following commands and press Enter:
Remove-Item -Path "HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\GamingServices" -recurse
Remove-Item -Path "HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\GamingServicesNet" -recurse
Restart your device.
Right-click the Start button  in the lower-left corner of the main screen, and then select Windows PowerShell (Admin).
In the Administrator: Windows PowerShell screen, type the following command and press Enter:
start ms-windows-store://pdp/?productid=9MWPM2CQNLHN
Install the app on that page, and then select Yes when you receive the User Account Control (UAC) prompt.
Try to install or launch the game again.

Hope this helps you and anyone else with same issue...solved my startup!

Oops...11:39pm and saw your post about this...sorry! but went right to answering.

Maybe someone else can try this. If I see anything else, I'll post here.

7 hours ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

Alternately delete your UserCfg.opt file.

Thanks Rob. For next time (hope there is not a next time) where might this file be typically located?

23 hours ago, fppilot said:

Thanks Rob. For next time (hope there is not a next time) where might this file be typically located?

Appdata>Roaming>Microsoft Flight Simulator

36 minutes ago, Gordon Hutchison said:

Appdata>Roaming>Microsoft Flight Simulator

It was a bit deeper that than that.  I do not even have that folder in my system.  My installation is a Microsoft Store installation.  Here is where I found it.

C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache

22 hours ago, fppilot said:

It was a bit deeper that than that.  I do not even have that folder in my system.  My installation is a Microsoft Store installation.  Here is where I found it.

C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache

I use the Steam version of MSFS- that'll explain the difference of file locations.

I had the same problem.  Must have gone thru about 15-20 CTD's in a row.  I tried everything that has been mention here with nothing working.  I don't know if it was just a coincidence or what but an update for my Nvidia driver popped up and  I did a clean install and all of a sudden it started working.  It was so absolutely frustrating. I had several people on the MSFS forum helping me but nothing was working.  I decided that if the new Nvidia driver didn't work it would be time to do the dreaded MSFS reinstall.  But it worked but who knows for how long.  Good luck trying to get this problem fixed.  I feel your pain.

On 7/1/2021 at 6:38 PM, fppilot said:

OK. Back running. 

 

57 minutes ago, RodgerC said:

Good luck trying to get this problem fixed.  I feel your pain.

Looks like you missed one of my posts above.  Back running.  I removed and replaced Windows Game Services, then did an MSFS reset, which was essentially a form of reinstallation without first uninstalling.

Edited July 5, 20214 yr by fppilot

For the third time, my "FS2020 won't start" problem was resolved by using the registry editor to remove GamingServices and GamingServicesNet .

See: 

 RobertR

Just had this happen randomly tonight for the first time.  Booted up, launched my MSFS icon on my desktop and it kept launching the windows store.  Tried repairing gaming services etc etc but nothing worked.  Finally uninstalled MSFS, reset gaming services, went through all the MS updates and after hours of just showing MSFS as Pending in the Store it is downloading from scratch.  

I can say emphatically nothing changed from launching MSFS this am but somehow my entire install seems to have become corrupt or worse, flat out missing.