Similar issues to other here. Since the 27th July update (which was very slow to download and took hours) MSFS seems to crash after just a few minutes. Then I also started to notice a bunch of other odd things. Various settings have changed without me doing them. The "toggle hand-brake" assignment was malfunctioning, menus were appearing without my asking for them. Next, I found that Market Place was grayed-out and my photometry had gone (so I was stuck with the cardboard buildings and non-real field boundaries etc). Then I started to get errors about "being unable to connect". I've been trying to sort this out when today (30/7) another mandatory update appeared. When I tried to install that, the game just bombed-out and left me with an MS home page of somekind. So, it wouldn't work at all. (I've been through all the usual multiple steps to try to solve crashing - updating all the drivers etc too of course - to no avail). Eventually, after several attempts I got in, but was warned "can not connect - go offline?" - so I chose the "offline" option, and now it seems to work and has stopped crashing. Obviously I have lost the photomentry and market place and live-AI and all the rest, but at least I can use it. My conclusion is that the underlying problem is something to do with the connection to the servers, running it offline seems to work. Far from ideal, but at least I can use it for a bit and maybe a more stable update will be realesed soon. Who knows . . .
