FS 2020 won't start - HELP

Hi, have FS2020 now since August and basically all runs well up till now. Have purchased couple of sceneries and despite some CTD in beginning, I am pretty happy. Now, all by sudden FS2020 starts and when the first background picture of Japan appears it runs into idle, i.e. background music just continues, in task manager I see that FS is alive and consumes CPU performance. But even after 30 minutes, it won't go into next stage which would be background picture "Japan has landed" before I reach start menu.

 

I shut down PC completely tried again, repaired FS application, ran as admin, de-plugged all USB, always same result. Before I completely re-install, any idea what I could try to fully restart FS2020?

 

Many thanks in advance.

Michael

Is your anti-virus creating a problem? Do you have a defined cache size that is too small? Do you have enough memory to handle the additional scenery?

The first thing I do when I have start up problems is to delete everything in the LocalCache folder, except the UserCfg.opt file. This solves the issue for me nearly every time.

Thanks, indeed deleting local cache did fix it. Took 3 hours to download the entire updated content again, but at least it starts back again. I have no limits on cache, so I wonder if I just have to live with fact that this occurs every few weeks? Many thanks for support :)

Unfortunately I was just able to launch FS twice, now I am back again. I even did not install all sceneries. I have no anti-virus or other program in background and I set cache to 128GB. So something other must be wrong, I just can't delete local chache and then have to download all updates for 3-4 hours before I can start again. Then I probably give up as well on FS.... Anyone a suggestion what I can try? Many thanks

Well now even that won't work. It just stalls when the background with Fuji comes and then you see the circle idle.... So I guess I have to re-install. I give it one more try and then I am done with it, don't have the time.... so again, any suggestions more than welcome :-) Thanks

Just a thought.. when you say you’ve no anti virus in the background... presumably this includes Windows 10’s Defender?

Defender certainly caused me a lot of problems a couple of weeks back, although I believe the issue was fixed in the last update.

 

Regards

Steve

Edited November 21, 2020 by g7rta

Sorry to hear you are still having problems. I would suggest following guidance on the below page. It is mostly covers MSFS CTD but something there may help you.

 

https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/584365-zendesk-msfs-guidelings-for-solving-ctd-etc/

Thanks, I am now doing re-install and then see how it works, but that guidance so I can try that one in case it still won't work. Will check on Defender as well. Thanks again