June 15, 20241 yr I have had the same problem for many hours and the only solution for me, after it remains on "CHECKING FOR UPDATE", is to disconnect and then reconnect the WIFI connection. The strange thing is that when I reconnect, the INSTALLATION MANAGER page appears and it's as if it wanted to reinstall everything but the text that appears says: 0/1.22TB and how do I do "CONTINUE" instead of installing the normal loading starts, only that the line at the bottom it advances to the end and at this point I have to disconnect and reconnect again and the page with WORLD MAP appears while MARKETPLACE tells me that it is UNAVAILABLE. I took two flights and had no problems.
June 15, 20241 yr I'm also stuck on 'Checking for Updates' but after about 10/15 minutes it goes. How ridiculous that in 2024 we have a game that takes this long to load. What a backward step we've taken. AMD Ryzen™ 9 9900X3D, AM5, Zen 5, 12 Core, 24 Threads, 4.4GHz, 5.5GHz Turbo 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 6000MHz Corsair Vengeance 32GB GeForce® RTX 5090 Graphics Card
June 15, 20241 yr It stays on the "Checking for Updates" screen for about 5 minutes on my PC, but then loads normally. Christopher Low AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU / 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM / 12GB Nvidia RTX 4070 Super GPU / Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7 / 1+2TB Samsung Evo Plus M2 Nvme UK2000 Beta Tester
June 15, 20241 yr I always have a backup of impotrant things but in the case of MSFS a back up is useless, so I have a backup sim ..... 😅
June 15, 20241 yr Had it yesterday on my left view pc .Rebooting the pc did nothing. Tried it 3 times. Signing out/in on both XBox Live and MS Store solved it for me. Edited June 15, 20241 yr by GSalden 5950x3d 5.4-5.7 GHz - Asus ROG 870 Crosshair Apex - GSkill Neo 2x 24 Gb 6000 mhz / cas 26 - MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC - 1x SSD M2 6000 2TB - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 1Tb - Corsair 5400 case - Corsair 360 liquid cooling set - 3x 75’ TCL tv. 13600 6 cores @ 5.1 GHz / 8 cores @ 4.0 GHz (hypterthreading on) - Asus ROG Strix Gaming D - GSkill Trident 4x Gb 3200 MHz cas 15 - Asus TUF RTX 4080 16 Gb - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 2TB - 2x Sata 600 SSD 500 Mb - Corsair D4000 Airflow case - NXT Krajen Z63 AIO liquide cooling - FOV : 200 degrees My flightsim vids : https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0
June 15, 20241 yr I somehow believe it must be related to one of the last Win updates, which was a rather deep one... Somehow what fixed it in my case and as I posted above was one of the suggestions in this thread that forced an NTP (Network Time Protocol) resync with the time servers. After going in my Win 11 to Settings / Time & Language / Date & Time / Sync now the sim started working again... This being said, I was already showing "privation symptoms" 🤣 when after reading this thread still at work, as I arrived home and fired the sim expecting to be able to make another great flight, I found myself trapped in that endless search for updates.... Fixed it thanks to one of the posts where the above fix was suggested, and went flying until almost falling asleep just entering the Marrakech STAR 🤣 I LOVE THIS SIM! even with it's quirks, and this one doesn't even look like being only it's fault... Edited June 15, 20241 yr by jcomm Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
June 15, 20241 yr Sync date and time solved issue, Win 10. C. Uygar Aircraft Maint. Engineer. at LTFJ
June 15, 20241 yr Sync date and time solved issue, Win 10. C. Uygar Aircraft Maint. Engineer. at LTFJ
June 15, 20241 yr did not sync date & time and access was possible today, yesterday no chance - stuck on "checking for updates". For me it seems to be a question of MS Server capabillity as usual, sometimes you can easily access, sometimes not, then there is this cryptical "checking for update" or black screen or other surprises... same procedure as the "bandwith too low" events. What do we have now: a sim which is starting or not, no T7, no PMDG or Fenix WX, excellent landscape and weather, unsolved AI traffic and ATC problems, lots of high quality aircraft and scenery addons. As earlier was mentioned here - a backup (offline) sim seems to be a good idea. Best regards Ralf Andreas
June 15, 20241 yr The... mysteries of MSFS 2020 included in the... purchase price! After yesterday I could only use MSFS 2020 with the procedure previously described in my post, today "without having done anything", CHECKING FOR UPDATE appears for a fraction of a second and the startup occurs regularly.
June 15, 20241 yr But why is it necessary to "Checking for Updates" when there is no updates available? can't they just put in this option the same time they have updates ready for download. Edited June 15, 20241 yr by Ixoye System: I ASRock X670E | AMD 7800X3D | 64Gb DDR5 6000 | RTX 4090 | 2TB NVMe | Seasonic Vertex 1000W I LG Ultra Gear 34 UW I
June 15, 20241 yr 25 minutes ago, Ixoye said: But why is it necessary to "Checking for Updates" when there is no updates available? can't they just put in this option the same time they have updates ready for download. Because you might not load the Sim for two months, so it needs to check for updates every time you load the Sim. Unfortunately it's a convoluted mess and something that has plagued the Sim since release, this particular issue has been more prevalent since SU15 and this week's server issues. Pico Neo3 Link VR - Windows 11 64bit, Gigabyte Z590 Aorus Elite Mobo, i7-10700KF CPU, Gigabyte RX 9070 XT OC 16gb (AMD GPU), 32gig Corsair 3600mhz RAM, SSD x2 + M.2 SSD 1tb x1 Saitek X45 HOTAS - Saitek Pro Rudder Pedals - Logitech Flight Yoke - Homemade 3 Button & 8-directional Joystick Box, SNES Controller (used as a Button Box - Additional USB Numpad (used as a Button Box)
June 15, 20241 yr 6 hours ago, jcomm said: After going in my Win 11 to Settings / Time & Language / Date & Time / Sync now the sim started working again... For me that worked one time. But when the problem recurred next time it did not work. For me it seem more of a random event if we get stuck at checking for updates
June 15, 20241 yr Neither the reset or rebooting helped here, but a windows update showed up so I applied it. All has been fine since then. Go figure!? [email protected] - ROG Strix Z790-E - 2X16Gb G.Skill Trident DDR5 6400 CL32 - MSI RTX 4090 Suprim X - WD SN850X 2 TB M.2 - XPG S70 Blade 2 TB M.2 - MSI A1000G PCIE5 1000 W 80+ Gold PSU - Liam Li 011 Dynamic Razer case - 58" Panasonic TC-58AX800U 4K - Pico 4 VR HMD - WinWing HOTAS Orion2 MAX - ProFlight Pedals - TrackIR 5 - W11 Pro (Passmark:12574, CPU:63110-Single:4785, GPU:50688)
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