So there it is....my first and ever problem with MSFS since it's launch <- yes, this is correct!

Last days I got plenty of "unable to sync" messages and it was always the XBOX Gaming App that logged me out. Looking in the Store Updates I saw the last days constant updates to the XBox gaming app and the Gaming services (just today again).

So now I have my first stuck on Checking for updates screen. Nothing helps....

Anybody else having this?

Yes, I'm having it too. 

Remedy:

When in sim,

Disconnect your wifi..then re-connect

That's what works in my neck of the woods

Yep Im getting this today, waited about 10 mins...got fed up...buggered off to shed

 

P.S. I.m in UK just saying in case its a local server thinggy

 

Edited May 5, 20242 yr by Lonesome Cowboy Burt

What I find works is to force quit the sim and then reopen it. 100% of the time for me, it opens fully on the second go.

 

 

Message to Microsoft...you took the money now up your server capacity to provide the service so many paid for (all my other connectivity dependent stuff is doing fine)

Edited May 5, 20242 yr by Lonesome Cowboy Burt

1 hour ago, Lonesome Cowboy Burt said:

 

 

Message to Microsoft...you took the money now up your server capacity to provide the service so many paid for (all my other connectivity dependent stuff is doing fine)

I second that...MS

@mikethe6th It suddenly decided to work again!

Had this the other day but after 10 minutes everything eventually loaded, I have heard that launching in administrator mode can cause this. 

For the record, for the last 2 days mine booted fine and didn't get stuck in searching for updates (I'm in the beta).

That's probably true for the computers at Asobo too. So they don't see the issue.

 

 

 

Aerofly fs4 starts in seven seconds supposedly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkuF2IwWrpo

😉

Happened to me a couple of days ago.  I suspected that it may have been something to do with having too many addons in my community folder, so I took a few out and it started up fine.

May have just been coincidence, but that was my suspicion.

This is an old problem, sometimes happens 2-3 days before a big update is coming. Last year I was not able to launch the sim for half a week because it was stuck in this endless loop, I even thought about deleting and reinstalling it - but on weekend I did another try to launch it and suddenly it was updating some big SU and ran fine afterwards like nothing was ever wrong 🙂

Happened to me yesterday. Restarted sim - same thing.  Rebooted PC - same thing.  Rebooted PC again and same thing again but I just left it 'Checking for Updates' and after about 10 to 15 mins it continued on with the remainder of the startup process.

Hi, i did a failure deleting premium content and then installing it again and now stock with this "checking for updates"

Tried all of the above to no sucess.

Anyone else with some sugestion ?

Thanks Michael Moe