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Thanks both. The more time I spend on this, and the utter puzzlement at why it won't launch, I'm starting to think it's some sort of missing Windows or Xbox dependency. The obvious one is Gaming Services but I have tried everything; uninstall / reinstall and using the dedicated MS Gaming Services repair EXE. My internet is running as normal and is a wired ethernet connection, so no Wifi or networks to cause problems. After hours of headscratching, I thought the only explanation must be that the service is down.... but as no-one here has the issue and the Xbox service shows no issues or outages, it can't be that. The incident itself, and the actions I've taken so far, trying to resolve it (including deleting cloud saves) already mean that even if/when I get it working, I've lost the entire contents of my Community folder and all of my settings (including all control and hardware settings). I've literally gone back to MSFS2024 day 1. I'd suggest starting your own thread for that, as it's completely unrelated to the sim failing to even launch.

Well, 5 hours of trying everything I've learned in 6 years about fixing such problems and I'm no further forward. MSFS2024 just hangs on "launching game" and never launches it. I've tried uninstalling, reinstalling and repairing Gaming Services, I've logged out and back into MS Store and Xbox app (and having them both open while 2024 launches), I've tried Fast launch via Powershell, I've tried removing then restoring the internet while loading 2024, to "force a reconnection to the authentication servers", I've tried a repair from the Xbox app, an unistall and reinstall from both the MS Store and the Xbox app. Still, every time I launch the sim, it just hangs on "launching game" and doesn't launch. I've also lost the 768 items that were in my Community folder, because I renamed it to CommunityBAK before the unistall / reinstall and the Xbox app then deleted the whole MSFS2024 directory, including my renamed Community folder. A really bad day. If anyone has any other ideas on what I could try, I'd be very grateful. Other than that, I guess I'm on a forced break from the hobby.

Is anyone else having problems launching MSFS2024? Been trying for an hour to launch the sim - it just stays on the initial launch screen with "loading game" and will not start. This is in the UK, at 22:40z

This has been around for a couple of years. Lots of promises and a highly excited dev vids, then it goes quiet for 6-9 months. I'm not holding my breath for this. As we've seen with another dev who promises the world in terms of a forthcoming "this changes everything!" ATC app, more often than not, what is promised doesn't come to fruition. I like the guys behind BATC but in real terms the progress is slow. I have issues with the person/people behind SI but you have to give it to them that they are 2 years along a development road that has been huge, and I can't see any new gamechanging ATC coming from nowhere and offering more than SI offers for VFR/IFR, and BATC offers for IFR.

I'm experiencing this too. It sort of spoils the fun. I'm not referring to any real depiction, but how different (quality and age) of controllers impact the ability to land and not loop in this plane (or even perhaps not loop but go off winding left and right, all over the runway!). I do feel some devs of taildraggers do dial this in a little too heavily, to make a point and say "look it can ground loop just like the real thing!". In real life taildraggers you can absolutely feel the inertia shift when your forward trajectory on landing starts to shift. In the sim we have nothing, just a nose darting off to the left or right and controls that are over- or under-sensitive in response to that. I would love to have something we can dial up or down for this configuration. I would dial it down, to compensate for the fact that I can't feel anything in the sim, so I'd rather steady but firm opposite control inputs on the rudder would actually keep the plane tracking straight.

That's been the case for some time. But what I have noticed is that the "Disable your adblocker / continue without supporting us" message is popping up very regularly for me. Let's say I go there to download 3 mods... it is now popping up each time I access the pages, and then again each time I hit download. So I had 6 of these begging letters during a <5 min session there, to download 3 tiny (2Mb each) files. I use firefox with uOrigin add blocker. I've never seen an ad on AVSIM in about 10 years with this, btw.

As others have said, I get the occasional "Please disable your Popup blocker" message, but it let's me click on the emotionally-charged "Continue without supporting us" message. 😊 Any site that is asking people to turn off their ad blocker, has the wrong revenue strategy. I've paid for 6 or 7 one month subs on FS.TO. But no, I won't disable my ad-blocker and drag my experience down into the internet gutter, thank you.

This could get me back into some airliner flying, although I prefer the 767 to the pencil 😉 Still, looking at the cockpit took me back to the Level D 767 vibes. That was some seriously happy flying, back in FS9 and FSX.

That's awesome news. Despite my moans about the inclusion of the KAP140 in their Legacy, I actually rate FSW incredibly highly, and I knew that the knowledge that the KAP140 was out of place would wear on Momo and that he's cave! 😄 But yes, I'm very happy to hear that. The AeroCruze is a great choice, as there's an uncertified version.

Agreed. Martial Bossard shouldn't be let anywhere near customer interactions. Dismisses everything that doesn't align with his agenda and tends to stoke more fires up than he puts out!

An analogue Lancair Legacy with the correct, prototypical, appropriate autopilot in it....... I can't wait! 😉

Massive red flag for Propair where addon aircraft are concerned. Their Shark LSA was an absolute car crash on release and, whilst it's had a few updates and is better now, it's very much is the lower than average category IMHO, for addon aircraft. I'd love a Cheyenne but see how this thing looks on release... I predict a riot!

The number of users using MSFS2020 is diminishing every day. (As can be expected for a 6 year old platform, which was effectively replace 2 years ago). I don't blame anyone who makes a choice to stick with the old platform - it's entirely their choice. It's when they expect continuous updates and new product versions for an old sim, that things get unrealistic. If you choose to stay with 2020, in my opinion you should accept the fact that your platform will effectively be frozen. The number of updates and new products for the old sim will diminish exponentially, as each month passes. I don't remember many vendors developing products for FS9, two years into FSX's release. It's the natural way of things. Short answer: MSFS 2024 is the latest platform and is absolutely amazing. There'd have to be a good alternative case, to put that aside and choose to use a 6 year old, non-current platform.

Awesome.