Stuck on "Checking for updates..."

[sonny147]

2 hours ago, banjoman1960 said:

you can do wat you want,or nothing............sometime it start.......sometime not.

i do nothing now,and most i win the gample😉

only check if im log in x-box and store app if the sim not start or give some of this stupid messages😁

XBOX !

[fppilot]

On 6/15/2024 at 12:04 PM, Bobsk8 said:

Using PCs since the mid 80's  Never have done that  once.  

Same here.  i have had this issue three times in the past week, and none in the almost four years since release.  Way too many enthusasts reporting this in the past week to ten days for it to be an individual issue on every one of the affected systems.  I am simply closing MSFS from Task Manager and restarting.  It has restarted just fine each time other than greeting me with the Safe or Normal boot dialog.  I just start normally.

Late yesterday I logged out of both the xBox app and the MS Store app and logged back in to both.  Have only flown twice since then so too early make any claims or suggestions.

With the numerous reports surfacing about this specific issue added to the separate reports of server outages, can we find an avenue to reach agreement that this appears to a "likely" intermittent server issue and that it is "likely" it is not any step we have taken either as a group or individually that "likely" made a difference?

Despite that, I anticipate there will "likely" continue to be arguments and suggestions about remedies.
I did say likely....  😉

Edited June 16 by fppilot

[AJZip]

1 hour ago, fppilot said:

Same here.  i have had this issue three times in the past week, and none in the almost four years since release.  Way too many enthusasts reporting this in the past week to ten days for it to be an individual issue on every one of the affected systems.  I am simply closing MSFS from Task Manager and restarting.  It has restarted just fine each time other than greeting me with the Safe or Normal boot dialog.  I just start normally.

Late yesterday I logged out of both the xBox app and the MS Store app and logged back in to both.  Have only flown twice since then so too early make any claims or suggestions.

With the numerous reports surfacing about this specific issue added to the separate reports of server outages, can we find an avenue to reach agreement that this appears to a "likely" intermittent server issue and that it is "likely" it is not any step we have taken either as a group or individually that "likely" made a difference?

Despite that, I anticipate there will "likely" continue to be arguments and suggestions about remedies.
I did say likely....  😉

Indeed.  Similar experience here.  Spent the day also today at a relatives in a different county, on a different fibre network and provider...exactly the same problem.

[Bartul]

Another possibility: Have you used MSFS2020 Map Enhancement app and uninstalled it or turned it off not following the procedure!?!?

It can be you'll need to fix the hosts file or something else..

(check their help page: https://github.com/derekhe/msfs2020-map-enhancement/wiki/Manual-EN )

[Stefti]

I was about to wander about the exact same thing.In my case it start it after the enhancement map and yes I`ve turn it on while on the sim once I`ve since removed from the PC but the. problem remains

 

[Bobsk8]

5 minutes ago, Stefti said:

I was about to wander about the exact same thing.In my case it start it after the enhancement map and yes I`ve turn it on while on the sim once I`ve since removed from the PC but the. problem remains

 

I used map enhancement for months. The latest version caused all kinds of problems on my system, and I finally uninstalled it and removed every trace of it.. 

Edited June 16 by Bobsk8

[Stefti]

Also I`ve found a malware using the exact same port 443 crxupdate.com and quarantine it

Bobsk8 please can you explain the step you have use it to uninstall the enhancement map.

Thanks

[Fielder]

Thankyou, Bartol. MSFS was stuck at searching for updates. It was indeed a corrupted hosts file. Uncorrupting it cured the issue immediately.

I can't delete or change or rename a hosts file unless notepad is running as an administrator.  Windows search box "notepad", right click, run as administrator. Open hosts file there now and I can alter it.  (Remove all lines not beginning with #).

 

[jcomm]

Just for the record, in my case who never used any Bing or Google scenery mod, and only have a few addon aircraft installed and the "trees height" mod from the Marketplace, there were no corrupt files, but resync of the time service did solve the problem, so, I do believe it's more of a sever-side problem (?)

Wonder if it may have anything to do with a fix they mentioned in the last Q&A being working on regarding errors in Time Zones ?

Edited June 17 by jcomm

[sonny147]

2 minutes ago, jcomm said:

Just for the record, in my case who never used any Bing or Google scenery mod, and only have a few addon aircraft installed and the "trees height" mod from the Marketplace, there were no corrupt files, but resync of the time service did solve the problem, so, I do believe it's more of a sever-side problem (?)

agreed, it totally was/is a server issue 

[Bobsk8]

13 hours ago, Stefti said:

Also I`ve found a malware using the exact same port 443 crxupdate.com and quarantine it

Bobsk8 please can you explain the step you have use it to uninstall the enhancement map.

Thanks

Restart PC, do an uninstall of Map Enhancement, in windows uninstall her. Then check to make sure there is no Map Enhancement folders left on your PC, remove entries in hosts files, that were placed there by Map enhancement, and the last thing I did was to do a DNS flush, and while I was at it, I switched to the Google DNS.  All issues disappeared. 

Edited June 17 by Bobsk8

[AnkH]

29 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

[...] All issues disappeared. 

You forgot the graphics driver update, expert...

Edited June 17 by AnkH

[Bobsk8]

1 hour ago, AnkH said:

You forgot the graphics driver update, expert...

Totally different issue? BTW , just looked at their page on Flightsim.to, reviews, half a dozen recent comments where after installing the latest version of   Map Enhancement , had to do a complete reinstall of MSFS 2020 to repair issues. 

Edited June 17 by Bobsk8

[Stefti]

Thanks Bobsk8

Last week I`ve made a purchase at the MSFS2020 store ,and soon after my debit card got hacked due to the crxupdate.com running in the same port (443)

The author of the enhance map also mentioned the (443 also used by MSFS store) and triggered my curiosity and eventually found the Trojan horse (not necessary linked to the map tool) but more about window`s in general lack of safety 😩

I think my MSFS install may be wrecked but I`ll never buy anything at the store using  windows

 

 

[marcg11]

This has now happened to me 3 times in the last few days - so something is going on.