• Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning old domain name stealing credentials

  • Special Server Maintenance

    Just when you think you have everything running some what better...

    You get a message from the Hosting company. Short story they need to move us to a new server. I have been working with them to plan a good date for all concerned. Here is what we have come up with as a schedule.

    1. November 4th 17:00 -5UTC shut off the forums and start backup proceedures. During this time there will be no access to the forums or the Resource Section.
    2. November 5th Continue with Backups and download same until complete.
    3. November 6th 7:00 turn over server to hosting company to move system to new server
    4. November 7th - 8th restore backups and upgrade forum software.

    If all goes well we should be back online on November 8th.

    To keep you updated we will post updates on AVSIM forums.

    Thank you for your support.

Xbox Sign In Pop-up

Navy Chief

Navy Chief

Senior Member
Earlier this afternoon I started up MSFS, Steam Edition. Didn't progress very far when I got a pop-up, saying I needed to sign into X-Box. It was strange because I never signed out of Xbox. Anyway, no matter what I did, nothing was working. I went to the Xbox website, and signed in there, but when I started up MSFS, the damn pop-up appeared still. Same thing with MSFS 2024. Finally, I tried signing in using my phone number. That worked, however, from that point it was like I was signing in for the first time. Although my controller settings had been saved, nothing else was. Infuriating, to put it mildly. NC
 
Sometimes your login to the Xbox network kind of expires, so to say.
It doesn't happen every day, fortunately.
But when it happens, the sim can't identify you properly and can lose your settings and such (including the installation folder location, then it asks you for a full reinstall...).

This is why, despite using the Steam version of the sim (both 2020 and 2024), I always launch the XBox app AT FIRST, just to check if everything looks alright in there.
If there is anything strange in there, or if it asks me to login, then I always force a logout then a login again. And only then I launch the sim.
If there is something like an orange popup in the XBox app, then it's most likely a network outage on the Microsoft side, and then I know I just shouldn't launch the sim at all until that is resolved.
 
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