Black box and cockpit moving parts not animated in Chagual Landing Challenge

RevampedSine732 · March 10, 2021, 11:13pm

Do you have any add-ons in your Community folder? If yes, please remove and retest before posting.
Just 8, but no aircraft.

Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it?
No

Brief description of the issue:
FlightSimulator v 1.14.5.0.
I can play the challenge several times without the bug, with Next then Restart, but after a while, all moving parts in the cockpit and the plane are no longer animated:
yoke, throttle, most things in cockpit, buttons, flaps, ailerons, rudder, elevator, and more are frozen.

In outside view, a black box is stuck on the plane!
Sometimes it happens after several attempts, sometimes on the 2nd or 3rd attempt.

The solution is to go back to the main FS screen, then fly the Chagual landing challenge again, as you can see in my last attempt.
But the bug can come back again later…

Provide Screenshot(s)/video(s) of the issue encountered:
a quick video:

and a longer video showing it keeps happening until we go back to FS main screen:

Detail steps to reproduce the issue encountered:
Play the challenge several times without the bug, with Next then Restart…

PC specs for those who want to assist (if not entered in your profile)
Intel Core i7 5960X Haswell-E 8-Cores 3.50GHz Processor (Overclocked to 4.3 GHz)
Corsair Hydro Series H100i GTX Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Asus Rampage V Extreme Intel X99 Motherboard
64GB Crucial DDR4 2133MHz Memory (8 x 8GB sticks)
Asus GeForce GTX 980 TI 6GB STRIX OC Direct CU II
512GB Samsung 850 Pro Solid State Drive
2000GB Samsung 850 Pro Solid State Drive
Western Digital BLACK SERIES 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive in RAID 1 Configuration

Did you submit this to Zendesk? If so, what is your ticket #?
No

Hester40MT · March 11, 2021, 2:55am

Hi @RevampedSine732!
Thank you for taking the time to post the videos and details. If you have not done so, please file a bug report on Zendesk, using the “Submit a Request” option on the top menu bar. Post the link to your topic here on the report.

That black box showing up on the top 208 has been present for some time now.

RevampedSine732 · March 11, 2021, 5:27am

submitted; number: 96903

RevampedSine732 · March 12, 2021, 3:02pm

After the bug at the Chagual Landing Challenge, I started a flight from the World Map.
After loading the flight, Assistance shows the Landing Challenge Assistance settings!

TurtleX696 · March 13, 2021, 3:38am

yes, I got that too! I thought it was my hardware
I have no mods installed when trying this challenge.

RevampedSine732 · March 13, 2021, 2:48pm

How often does it happen?
For me, it can happen at the first Replay (a Replay is the 2nd time you do the challenge; the first being just when coming from the main FS screen.), and I have done it up to 15 times without it. Yesterday evening, it happened several times on my 3rd Replay.

TurtleX696 · March 13, 2021, 2:56pm

yes, it happens from restart onwards (no exit to main menu)

RevampedSine732 · March 13, 2021, 3:34pm

We must be the only two cursed FS users in the entire Universe, because I can’t see any post about this!

CottonyBat4 · March 13, 2021, 4:57pm

Exactly the same issue here (RTX 2060), no mods/addons installed

That’s funny, we can even see reflections on the black box:

RevampedSine732 · March 13, 2021, 6:45pm

This is a bug in FS. It’s not due to addons, and certainly not to the GPU.

RevampedSine732 · March 13, 2021, 6:53pm

I just did the challenge: bug at the first Replay!

And again: at first replay!

And again, at the 2nd Replay with propeller not spinning!

RevampedSine732 · March 14, 2021, 1:34pm

I got a Zendesk email, and logging to it, this bug is marked as Solved:

RevampedSine732 · March 14, 2021, 8:08pm

In this attempt, I again experienced the bug (at the 2nd Replay) where the animation of all controls freezes.
I decided to stay positive in adversity, and to carry on, as the aircraft is still fully flyable, and it was a good idea since I beat my own record, to be back in the world’s Top 10… Never give up, and keep trying.

EDIT: There is also another thing: every evening, between around 20:00 and 22:00 UK time, FPS often go down to 12 FPS.

joris1313 · March 16, 2021, 11:10pm

Same here. RTX 2080 and no add-ons. Prop freezes when restarting challenge.

GLT5555 · March 21, 2021, 12:30am

Hello, i do have this bug too.
First time at my second retry with no mods in my community folder.
Second time at the first retry.

with : GTX 16660 SUPER.

nosmartcookie · March 22, 2021, 1:27pm

Reposting this as I see from a response that it’s apparently been solved but it clearly hasn’t.

Its really annoying and needs sorting. I was working my way up to 3,000 place (not great but not terrible but won’t play this anymore. Its too difficut to judge a landing with those bloody propellers sat in your eyeline.

RTX 3070, 3800XT CPU, 32GB RAM…

GLT5555 · March 22, 2021, 4:24pm

It seems to happen even on simple flight :
A flight over Island, but in this case there is third party mods.

nosmartcookie · March 26, 2021, 6:14pm

Oh well. Hot fix applied and still the propeller is stuck. I’m stumped

RevampedSine732 · March 26, 2021, 6:18pm

The hotfix is only for performance fix.

nosmartcookie · March 26, 2021, 6:59pm

Thanks. So I guess we need to wait for the next sim update then. So annoying.