Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 crashing on start up

Anonymous
2023-08-30T07:41:56+00:00

Hello,

I tried launching MSFS 2020 today on my PC but it crashes at the loading screen every time, regardless of safe mode or normal.

My drivers are up to date and my microsoft/xbox sign in details are correct.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 Ti
Driver version 537.13
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core Processor
31.89 GB RAM

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Gaming

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-07-18T20:12:39+00:00

    Try this link:

    https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/msfs-crashing-half-way-through-startup/550003/37?page=2

    Go down to March 2023, a comment from “curiousmax1407” , try the method he’s done as he’s had the same issue you’ve had.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-07-18T19:59:05+00:00

    I'm having same or similar issue. i9 14900 cpu and 4090 video card. Everything patched to very latest drivers and Windows (10) updates. Installed the game, ran it and then game installs about 130Gb of updates, at nearly the very end of this process, as the game is loading in it will crash to desktop with no error code shown. Itr does create a last crash log in the user\appdir location. I have uninstalled game,, cleared all remnants of MSFS files and folders, deleted all traces of game from registry and reinstalled and redownloaded and verified file integrity game multiple times and it continually crashes in exact same spot. I have a second gaming PC with similar, but older video card and processor that loads the game fine.

    Nothing is overclocked, and I can install the game without issue, but everytime it tries to load it crashes at the bottom progress bar at about 80% of the way to complete load. No mods, Community folder empty, and I have also deleted all files from directories to force it to reinstall all updates and it will still crash as it tries to load at exact same spot.

    I checked power profile and it is set to High, screen is not set to go to sleep. No extra USB devices plugged in. Both English US and UK voice languages installed.

    Any ideas?

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-12T17:25:26+00:00

    The only solution to fix my game from crashing is installing English voice in the speech settings, no other solution with game integrity or reinstalling won't help. The game relies on speech synthesis, so I think the game won't work if the basic language is not installed. That's crazy how many people have startup crashes by this, and Microsoft didn't fix this or ether provide a tutorial for this

    Select the Start button, then select Settings > Time & Language
    Go to Speech > Manage Voice
    Click on + Add voices
    In the search bar type "English"
    Install the English (United States) Language Pack

    Thank you so much bro!! Finally after years i can play MSFS, how on earth did you figure that out 🤣

    10/10 top man!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-04-25T23:51:15+00:00

    God Bless you it worked for me

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