October 25, 20214 yr Here we go again! Issue: Starting MSFS opens MS Store which prompts to install Gaming Services on my devices. Trying that solves nothing Solutions attempted: Quote Error 0x80073D26 or 0x00000001 occurs when you try to install, update, or launch a game on a Windows 10 device | Xbox Support June 11, 2021—KB5004476 (OS Builds 19041.1055, 19042.1055, and 19043.1055) Out-of-band (microsoft.com) Windows 10 KB5004476 emergency patch released to fix Xbox issues (windowslatest.com) That update is "Incompatible" with my Windows installation. It was not even available in Windows Settings - I had to search for it online. Note that the end of that last article above mentions lost taskbar icons. I lost mine last night. Whether there's a connection, I've no idea but it seems a big coincidence. I did try a (failed) System Restore and reverted to the current settings. Ended up manually adding my icons back. Quote All versions - Loading issues - Checklist – Microsoft Flight Simulator Support (zendesk.com) Didn't work Quote Microsoft Store - Cannot install or update Gaming Services – Microsoft Flight Simulator Support (zendesk.com) Didn't work. Quote MSFS doesn't launch - opens MS store with Gaming Services instead - Bugs & Issues / Install, Performance & Graphics - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums Guess what? Didn't work! Any other ideas before I attempt a 2 day old System Restore Point (which I'm pretty much expecting to fail anyway)? OS: Win11 Home; Mobo: Asus TUF Gaming Z690-Plus WiFi D4; CPU: Intel i5-12400 (Alder Lake) 4.4 GHzRAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR4 64Gb (4x16GB) 3600 MHz; GPU: MSI Radeon RX 5700XT [8GB] SSD: Corsair Force MP510 (for OS); 2x 1TB & 1x 2TB Sabrent Rocket Nvme PCIe 4.0 (one for sim, two for addons)HDD: Seagate 3TB (Data); Seagate 1TB (Programs), ASUS TUF Gaming VG32VQ1B Curved 31.5" monitor, 1440p, 38Mbs ethernet Fulcrum One Yoke, Honeycomb Bravo throttle, Thrustmaster Airbus TCA sidestick & throttle, Logitech Pro pedals, Xbox wireless gamepad (1st gen)
October 25, 20214 yr Sounds like the situation that caused me to re-buy from Steam. Been seamless ever since! Master Sergeant, U.S. Air Force, Retired Former T-33A Crew Chief Former B-1B Crew Chief / Flightline Maintenance Expediter Former Learjet Corp. Quality Inspector Formerly Young (😩)
October 25, 20214 yr Just spent 2 days trying to get it working as well. Your not alone. Nothing worked. Something is corrupt with gaming servicers and windows store after the first use, I updated to SU6. Exited the sim and it never started again. Had to do a new OS install and clean MSFS. https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/msfs-doesnt-launch-opens-ms-store-with-gaming-services-instead/464897/22
October 25, 20214 yr I had exactly the same issue. Did you try deleting gaming services, redownloading and installing them? I also have a new system and doing that worked fine. It was nothing to do with Windows. I didn’t even reinstall Windows from my old system. Just saying in case this helps…
October 25, 20214 yr in addition to the above I also signed out of gaming and store and rebooted before signing back in again in a similar situation. for antivirus I only use MS default defender. Edited October 25, 20214 yr by turbomax AMD 7800X3D, Windows 11, Gigabyte X670 AORUS Elite AX Motherboard, 64GB DDR5 G.SKILL Trident Z5 NEO RGB (AMD Expo), RTX 4090, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 2 TB PCIe 4.0, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 1 TB PCIe 4.0, 4K resolution 50" TV @60Hz, VR: Pimax Crystal Light + HP Reverb G2 @ 90 Hz, Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant, be quiet 1000W PSU, Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black air cooler. 60-130 fps. no CPU overclocking. very nice.
October 25, 20214 yr 16 hours ago, 109Sqn said: Here we go again! Issue: Starting MSFS opens MS Store which prompts to install Gaming Services on my devices. Trying that solves nothing Solutions attempted: That update is "Incompatible" with my Windows installation. It was not even available in Windows Settings - I had to search for it online. Note that the end of that last article above mentions lost taskbar icons. I lost mine last night. Whether there's a connection, I've no idea but it seems a big coincidence. I did try a (failed) System Restore and reverted to the current settings. Ended up manually adding my icons back. Didn't work Didn't work. Guess what? Didn't work! Any other ideas before I attempt a 2 day old System Restore Point (which I'm pretty much expecting to fail anyway)? I had similar to this. I fixed it by changing my MS password. After that the MS apps prompted me for the new password and all worked properly. Fed up with MS Store version issues so I changed to the steam version - so nice to open Steam and see the initial SU6 update complete with no input from me. CPU Ryzen 7800X 3D RAM 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 6000MHz GPU GEFORCE RTX 4090 Monitor AOC AGON AG352UCG UltraWide G-Sync @ 3440x1440 Internal Storage 1TB NVMe PCIe SSD External Storage Three 4Tb HDs
October 25, 20214 yr Author 4 hours ago, rayharris108 said: Did you try deleting gaming services, redownloading and installing them? Yes, that was covered by one of the links I posted originally. OS: Win11 Home; Mobo: Asus TUF Gaming Z690-Plus WiFi D4; CPU: Intel i5-12400 (Alder Lake) 4.4 GHzRAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR4 64Gb (4x16GB) 3600 MHz; GPU: MSI Radeon RX 5700XT [8GB] SSD: Corsair Force MP510 (for OS); 2x 1TB & 1x 2TB Sabrent Rocket Nvme PCIe 4.0 (one for sim, two for addons)HDD: Seagate 3TB (Data); Seagate 1TB (Programs), ASUS TUF Gaming VG32VQ1B Curved 31.5" monitor, 1440p, 38Mbs ethernet Fulcrum One Yoke, Honeycomb Bravo throttle, Thrustmaster Airbus TCA sidestick & throttle, Logitech Pro pedals, Xbox wireless gamepad (1st gen)
October 25, 20214 yr Author 3 hours ago, turbomax said: in addition to the above I also signed out of gaming and store and rebooted before signing back in again in a similar situation. for antivirus I only use MS default defender. Yup, tried that too. No dice. Default AV and firewall also. OS: Win11 Home; Mobo: Asus TUF Gaming Z690-Plus WiFi D4; CPU: Intel i5-12400 (Alder Lake) 4.4 GHzRAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR4 64Gb (4x16GB) 3600 MHz; GPU: MSI Radeon RX 5700XT [8GB] SSD: Corsair Force MP510 (for OS); 2x 1TB & 1x 2TB Sabrent Rocket Nvme PCIe 4.0 (one for sim, two for addons)HDD: Seagate 3TB (Data); Seagate 1TB (Programs), ASUS TUF Gaming VG32VQ1B Curved 31.5" monitor, 1440p, 38Mbs ethernet Fulcrum One Yoke, Honeycomb Bravo throttle, Thrustmaster Airbus TCA sidestick & throttle, Logitech Pro pedals, Xbox wireless gamepad (1st gen)
October 25, 20214 yr Not sure you've tried this, but this helped me when I had the gaming installation issue: Gameservices not installing I had that yesterday too and this is how I solved it: 1. Open registry editor. Just right click regedit, “run as administrator” 2. Delete both entries: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\GamingServices] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\GamingServicesNet] 3. Reboot pc PC: AMD 9850X3D, RAM 64GB, Geforce GTX 5090 (32GB), MSFS 2020, MSFS 2024, Pimax Super 50PPD, Quest 3
October 25, 20214 yr Author 1 hour ago, flyblueskies said: Not sure you've tried this, but this helped me when I had the gaming installation issue: Actually, I'd just read that shortly before you must have posted it! I plan on trying it shortly. Thanks. OS: Win11 Home; Mobo: Asus TUF Gaming Z690-Plus WiFi D4; CPU: Intel i5-12400 (Alder Lake) 4.4 GHzRAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR4 64Gb (4x16GB) 3600 MHz; GPU: MSI Radeon RX 5700XT [8GB] SSD: Corsair Force MP510 (for OS); 2x 1TB & 1x 2TB Sabrent Rocket Nvme PCIe 4.0 (one for sim, two for addons)HDD: Seagate 3TB (Data); Seagate 1TB (Programs), ASUS TUF Gaming VG32VQ1B Curved 31.5" monitor, 1440p, 38Mbs ethernet Fulcrum One Yoke, Honeycomb Bravo throttle, Thrustmaster Airbus TCA sidestick & throttle, Logitech Pro pedals, Xbox wireless gamepad (1st gen)
October 25, 20214 yr Author 2 hours ago, flyblueskies said: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\GamingServices] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\GamingServicesNet] Now this is weird - I don't have either of those entries in my registry.🤔 I can only imagine one of the other solutions tried already deleted them which means I appear to be no further forward.🙄 OS: Win11 Home; Mobo: Asus TUF Gaming Z690-Plus WiFi D4; CPU: Intel i5-12400 (Alder Lake) 4.4 GHzRAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR4 64Gb (4x16GB) 3600 MHz; GPU: MSI Radeon RX 5700XT [8GB] SSD: Corsair Force MP510 (for OS); 2x 1TB & 1x 2TB Sabrent Rocket Nvme PCIe 4.0 (one for sim, two for addons)HDD: Seagate 3TB (Data); Seagate 1TB (Programs), ASUS TUF Gaming VG32VQ1B Curved 31.5" monitor, 1440p, 38Mbs ethernet Fulcrum One Yoke, Honeycomb Bravo throttle, Thrustmaster Airbus TCA sidestick & throttle, Logitech Pro pedals, Xbox wireless gamepad (1st gen)
October 25, 20214 yr I'm sure you did this, but in step 1, double check that you ...right click regedit, “run as administrator” 1. Open registry editor. Just right click regedit, “run as administrator” Edited October 25, 20214 yr by flyblueskies PC: AMD 9850X3D, RAM 64GB, Geforce GTX 5090 (32GB), MSFS 2020, MSFS 2024, Pimax Super 50PPD, Quest 3
October 25, 20214 yr If you have been into Reg edit and the gaming services an Gaming services Net are deleted .. you have one more thing to do ... in Windows go to Settings Apps and then look for Gaming services app Click on Terminate ... click on repair and finally click on Reset Log back into your MS Store account ... go to your ‘My library’ and then click on Install MS2020 and things should work for you Good luck Paul
October 25, 20214 yr Author 1 hour ago, flyblueskies said: I'm sure you did this, but in step 1, double check that you ...right click regedit, “run as administrator” I did, but thanks for checking. OS: Win11 Home; Mobo: Asus TUF Gaming Z690-Plus WiFi D4; CPU: Intel i5-12400 (Alder Lake) 4.4 GHzRAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR4 64Gb (4x16GB) 3600 MHz; GPU: MSI Radeon RX 5700XT [8GB] SSD: Corsair Force MP510 (for OS); 2x 1TB & 1x 2TB Sabrent Rocket Nvme PCIe 4.0 (one for sim, two for addons)HDD: Seagate 3TB (Data); Seagate 1TB (Programs), ASUS TUF Gaming VG32VQ1B Curved 31.5" monitor, 1440p, 38Mbs ethernet Fulcrum One Yoke, Honeycomb Bravo throttle, Thrustmaster Airbus TCA sidestick & throttle, Logitech Pro pedals, Xbox wireless gamepad (1st gen)
October 25, 20214 yr Author 58 minutes ago, Paul_ said: Gaming services app Click on Terminate ... click on repair and finally click on Reset Tried that early on I'm afraid. The only MSFS item which has an option to install is Digital Ownership, and that's been the case long before this issue arose. Edit: Gaming Services did go through a download process this time, but still wanted "installed onto my devices" as usual. Edited October 25, 20214 yr by 109Sqn OS: Win11 Home; Mobo: Asus TUF Gaming Z690-Plus WiFi D4; CPU: Intel i5-12400 (Alder Lake) 4.4 GHzRAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR4 64Gb (4x16GB) 3600 MHz; GPU: MSI Radeon RX 5700XT [8GB] SSD: Corsair Force MP510 (for OS); 2x 1TB & 1x 2TB Sabrent Rocket Nvme PCIe 4.0 (one for sim, two for addons)HDD: Seagate 3TB (Data); Seagate 1TB (Programs), ASUS TUF Gaming VG32VQ1B Curved 31.5" monitor, 1440p, 38Mbs ethernet Fulcrum One Yoke, Honeycomb Bravo throttle, Thrustmaster Airbus TCA sidestick & throttle, Logitech Pro pedals, Xbox wireless gamepad (1st gen)
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