Trying to run MSFS but stuck on "Press any key to start" endless loop.

RobertPountney · Feb 18, 2021

I bought the Deluxe MSFS on DVD's and up to Monday everything was fine and I could click on the icon and the game would start but on Tuesday instead of MSFS screen it went to Microsoft store and then got hung up on the gaming update. I then lost the game completely and have managed to get it back to the screen where it says "press any key to start", screen goes black and after a few minutes the same message comes on again. I'm lost for ideas can anyone help?

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RobertPountney

Hi Thanks for answering. My PC has a Ryzen 7 2700 3.70ghz, RTX 2060 video card, 32 mb ram Win 10 up to date and MSFS is on a SSD. Game has been running smoothly until this week.

ngocphi

What is your specs of your computer

chisom

I am having a similar issue. I am unable to skip the intro video or even play forza 5 at the moment. I start the game...then it says press A to start...I press A and the video showing the cars starts...I press A and game takes me back to press A to start
screen...I then press A and the video starts again.

Even when nothing is pressed and the video ends, I am still taken to the press A to start screen. Stuck in an endless loop.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the game and the issue continues. Please help

AlexTsang

KatieBooty, by "entire computer freezes" do you really mean you can't use the computer by pressing any keys on keyboard (like pressing Windows key to try showing the start screen, pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del to open Task Manager), or just the games fall into login
loop indefinitely? Those are different.

Kimmy_24

Hi, I hope you're doing well and safe out there. I'm an Independent Advisor and I’m happy to help you today.

May I know which device do you experience this issue? Kindly also check if you can normally player other games on cloud gaming.

Trying to run MSFS but stuck on "Press any key to start" endless loop.