Anyone seen this error message yet?  Just popped up on startup today for me.  Last night I ran it just fine, was flying from FT KBOS and had to quit mid flight...went to Main Menu and exited like normal.  First startup today made it look like my sim shut down incorrectly last night because it said Normal Mode or Safe Mode.  I chose normal and then I get this new error!  Oh this sim... for goodness sake....

The sim eventually loads to the Main Menu (but shows this error)and once I click this it restarts as if my logon to xbox live was lost...and just loops back to the main menu with this error.

running process by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

1 minute ago, ryanbatc said:

Anyone seen this error message yet?  Just popped up on startup today for me.  Last night I ran it just fine, was flying from FT KBOS and had to quit mid flight...went to Main Menu and exited like normal.  First startup today made it look like my sim shut down incorrectly last night because it said Normal Mode or Safe Mode.  I chose normal and then I get this new error!  Oh this sim... for goodness sake....

The sim eventually loads to the Main Menu (but shows this error)and once I click this it restarts as if my logon to xbox live was lost...and just loops back to the main menu with this error.

running process by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

What AV program are you running?

1 minute ago, Bobsk8 said:

What AV program are you running?

The usual - Defender built into Windows.  I haven't changed anything though since it last ran

Might find some answers here: Msfs 2020 not running correctly (warning a running process may be interfering) - Bug Reports / Miscellaneous - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums

9 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

The usual - Defender built into Windows.  I haven't changed anything though since it last ran

Sounds to me like an AV problem. I use Webroot which my IT guy says has almost zero effect on programs like flight sims. 

15 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

Anyone seen this error message yet?  Just popped up on startup today for me.  Last night I ran it just fine, was flying from FT KBOS and had to quit mid flight...went to Main Menu and exited like normal.  First startup today made it look like my sim shut down incorrectly last night because it said Normal Mode or Safe Mode.  I chose normal and then I get this new error!  Oh this sim... for goodness sake....

The sim eventually loads to the Main Menu (but shows this error)and once I click this it restarts as if my logon to xbox live was lost...and just loops back to the main menu with this error.

running process by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

Just reboot your computer.  Chances are, after a reboot, whatever process is blocking MSFS from running, probably won't block it anymore.

Clearly a Russian hacker has taken over your machine and is running a torrent server or bitcoin mining process! 

Reboot no change - I ran it in safe mode for now and it gets me to the menu without the error.  I'll have to play around more - don't have much time today.

If it runs in safe mode, I would assume it relates to something in your community folder. Odd message if that is the case though.

Other than an antivirus, antimalware program or a Russian hacker, the only other thing that springs to mind is the google maps addon which might throw up something.

Have you scrolled through your running processes in task manager?  Anything jump out to you there?

Edited May 1, 20224 yr by cianpars

7 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

Reboot no change - I ran it in safe mode for now and it gets me to the menu without the error.  I'll have to play around more - don't have much time today.

 Check if there any windows updates on hold. update if necessary 

18 minutes ago, cianpars said:

If it runs in safe mode, I would assume it relates to something in your community folder. Odd message if that is the case though.

Other than an antivirus, antimalware program or a Russian hacker, the only other thing that springs to mind is the google maps addon which might throw up something.

Have you scrolled through your running processes in task manager?  Anything jump out to you there?

Yeah it's weird - I haven't loaded any new addon, I've looked at the task manager didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.

31 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

 Check if there any windows updates on hold. update if necessary 

It said I was up to date - but then it showed a KB5012643 update - so I'm downloading that.

I had it once, last night.

I also had TDS GTNXI firing up during the MSFS start up, [before I got to the Scenario set up screens]. Hadn't had that before with TDS, it usually starts as the chosen scenario is loading.

I shut everything down & then started again & no early TDS, or the message, since.

Not sure what it was.

T45

After loading into Safe Mode (FS not windows), and then loading again with my addon linker cleared of addons it booted into the sim ok.  Then I ran it again with all my addons and its normal as well.  I also installed that windows update.  So if anything I have more items running but no more error.  Ugh - now I don't know what the actual cause of the error was!

I suspect it could have been windows updates trying to install the KB.  I always disable updates for 7 days before running the sim.

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