Hi, happens on our series s and X. What we do is simply hit the middle controller button (eg to bring up the Xbox GUI/main menu) then cancel again. That seems to kick the game into action and the flower changes into the taco/pre load etc.
I usually wait about the same time as I used to on the one X, then do the above 🙂
.to confirm, at the point the game is loading (after xxx is connecting to ea servers) hit your central Xbox controller button and then back button to resume. Within a few seconds, game will load as you expect.
With our series S and X, made no difference to what TV being used, or storage but the above definatley resolved for us
Pressing the Xbox button (to open the xbox side menu) during startup and general loading fixes things for me as well. But it IS just a workaround, something is going on during that black screen which EA needs to fix. Unfortunately, they don't seem to care anymore. At least we have a workaround.
We have a Xbox One X and a Series X, and the One X is significantly faster during all loading times, not just on startup.
