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MSFS2020 - Xbox control unit still displayed during startup

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I posted this subject some weeks ago and received suggestions ranging from it will go away after a few MSFS startups to it will disappear after the next MSFS2020 upgrade.

Well both have now happened. There was an update in the last 24 hours and I must have started MSFS 50 times (I am developing some scenery) since then .

Everytime I start a flight the XBox controller displays while the flight loads.

I know that this is just nuisance value but it never used to happen since I purchased MSFS2020.

Now I am wondering could something have been triggered by the fact that I ran MSFS2020 from the XBox app just before this started to happen. I usually start it from a desktop icon which 'uses' MSGAME LAUNCH however at the time I was having problems with MSFS2020 and XBox as MSFS2020 often was telling me to "insert disk" and when I opened XBox it displayed that I was offline yet I could access any web site using any internet browser. In frustration I decided to try running MSFS2020 from XBox. Could that have set a flag or something which is causing the XBox controller to display on screen? If so what is the fix, and I am hoping its not an uninstall/reinstall?

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Thanks.

Edited by Jarnie

Regards

John

Gigabyte Z390 m/b, i7 9700K cpu, 16Gb Hyper X Fury 3200 ram, RTX2060 6Gb, Gigabyte 32" monitor, MSFS 2020 store edition

I was hoping...the issue (finally) disappeared for you, Jarnie...

As I'd said, I distinctly recall seeing it a couple of times in MSFS2020 (never in MSFS2024), and it had gone away either via an MSFS Update or because of close/restart of MSFS, I cannot tell exactly. I did not have to uninstall/install the SIM. There is no indication anywhere either that uninstall/install is a definitive resolution for this issue.

BTW, here is a thread right here in Avsim Forum, from 4 years ago about the exact same topic. The suggestions range from trivial, "use the loading time for putting cream and sugar into your coffee or tea..."...🙂...to more serious ones such as the execution of a "batch file code". See the very last post and contact the author if you wish.

To me, it seems like one of those inexplicable (and annoying) things in the Asobo/MSFS paradigm...with no easy and proven fix...

Cheers...!

 

 

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