MSFS will not boot all of a sudden.

[Navy Chief]

I use Addon Linker, and have never had this happen. I choose the profile I want, and then the green arrow, and then Steam starts, closely followed by MSFS.

Only now nothing happens. I clicked the green arrow in Addon Linker. Steam starts, and then nada.

So I shut down Steam, restarted it and tried booting MSFS from my Steam Library. I hit the "Play" button, and within about 5 seconds or so, the "Play" button is green again. No go.

I am at a loss here. NC

UPDATE: I reverted back to a video driver from a couple days ago, and now it boots. I have not had this problem. Strange.

 

[Brytskiva]

I use Addon Linker, and have never had this happen. I choose the profile I want, and then the green arrow, and then Steam starts, closely followed by MSFS.

Only now nothing happens. I clicked the green arrow in Addon Linker. Steam starts, and then nada.

So I shut down Steam, restarted it and tried booting MSFS from my Steam Library. I hit the "Play" button, and within about 5 seconds or so, the "Play" button is green again. No go.

I am at a loss here. NC

UPDATE: I reverted back to a video driver from a couple days ago, and now it boots. I have not had this problem. Strange.

There is an Repair function ....

 

[jmig]

The first thing I do when I have MSFS issues is to rename the Community folder. MSFS will create a new empty one. If it works with a default aircraft, I then go through the process of determining which community item caused the no go. If it doesn't work, I use the repair function under Apps.

I my experience one of these two will fix it 99% of the time.

 

[Navy Chief]

Because MSFS is on a server system, I suspect that is oftentimes the culprit. I haven't done anything different, yet all worked perfectly this morning. Puzzling. NC

 

[Tom Clayton]

The first thing I do when I have MSFS issues is to rename the Community folder. MSFS will create a new empty one.

You can also start up the sim, then "crash" it with the Task Manager. When you restart it, use the Safe Mode option, and not only will it ignore the Community folder, but it will disable Marketplace addons as well.