Microsft Flight Simulator 2020 won't start

JaxenGuzman · Sep 19, 2022

I have tried every thing known to man but yet whenever I I try to open up the game my razer cortex thing says released 1 gig of ram which is way less than it used to say when it worked and shows me a black screen for 10 seconds then it closes. I uninstalled and reinstalled the game like 8 months ago but when it didn't work I just stopped trying but I have tried to dabble with it more and still no dice. I would like some help because I am just lost at this point.

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JaxenGuzman

I just checked and yes I am on 21h2 so It's not a problem with my os, as I've said before I've tried everything, cleared cache, restarted pc, clean install, update drivers and many others but none of them work. Just still a little confused

ngocphi

Show us your specs

Ram.should be double and gpu needs to be decent 970 and above

Georges C.

Hello, first it's a pleasure to be able to help you today.

My name is welcome to the community.

Hello JaxenGuzman, have you checked if you have the latest version of Windows installed, at 21H2.

See which version of Windows 10 you have

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/see...

If you haven't updated yet, click the link below, update, and make all subsequent security updates.

Download Windows 10

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-downlo...

Download Windows 11

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-downlo...

Also, make sure all Xbox Apps are up to date in the store, and make sure you have the Xbox Companion App installed, it works with the Xbox App.

JosefLBohorquez

Nice!
Is this the thing that you did?

Go to windows settings > apps > search for flight sim app > click on it and select advanced options.

After that, click repair and then reset

Then do the same for the Xbox app:

Go to windows settings > apps > search for Xbox app > click on it and select advanced options.

After that, click repair and then reset

Then this:

Step 1: Open the Run window by pressing Windows + R key.

Step 2: Input WSReset.exe in the Run window and click OK.

Step 3: Then a command prompt window will appear. After a few seconds, Windows Store will open.

And finally this:
Press Windows key + X and then select Windows PowerShell (Admin).

Type or copy / past the following command and press Enter:

Get-AppxPackage *gamingservices* -allusers | remove-appxpackage -allusers

Restart the PC and Open the Xbox application.

A blue notification with the following message is going to appear at the bottom:
"This app needs an extra component. Gaming Services is needed for playing some games. Administrator approval required. Install"

Select Install to reinstall Gaming Services, once Installed the game worked

JaxenGuzman

Forgot to add this as well but I did not have console companion so I installed that, and my games were all up to date as well

Microsft Flight Simulator 2020 won't start