WeirdNeville.
You are the one who initiated this. It should have been your post being flagged but I digress.
You have some pretty flawed assumptions of who you think I am. And if I was in a position where I had your issues with you PC or Sim, I’m also well enough in a position to get to the bottom of it, and certainly not lash out at forum members who are trying to help. I have built, configured and diagnosed, more PCs since the late 90’s that I care to remember. And I have always managed to get to the bottom of PC and software related issues. The most difficult issue here, is that users who are seeking help on forums, cannot give the entire picture to the folks who are trying to help.
And all I did was try to help. I didn’t put the blame on anyone’s hardware or software. After all no one has any idea what you may or may have not installed on your computer, or how it was built. There could be 1 of 1000 different reasons why you are receiving this error. Did you even try researching this error by memory address? It points to either a physical memory fault, a page file/size fault, your flightsimultator.exe may be corrupt, or you have missing/corrupt dependency apps or files, which the sim needs in order to to run.
It may be something isolated to the Microsoft Store version of the sim. Initially, this is the version I bought, and I asked for a refund in less than 24hrs, after the install loop fiasco. I subsequently bought it from steam, and installed the sim in a custom folder. And YES there is a difference. The C:/program files folders have added permissions that can wreak havoc on certain apps and games.
What have YOU done so far, in order to attempt at any diagnosis? It may even be as simple as reseating a RAM module. Did you try this? Did you try running memtest86? Are you running your memory in any XMP modes provided on you MB’s bios? Did you try disabling XMP to see if the issue disappears? Have you updated your bios, and tried your XMP profiles again? Did you check your Mb’s list of supported memory manufacturers speeds and timings? Have you run your BIOS in its default configuration, and then the sim? Did you try running on a single stick of RAM, have you tested your RAM sticks one-at-a-time on a single channel? Have you done this on both A and B memory channels?
Have you tried creating an image of your drives, backing them up, reinstalling windows and the sim in a clean fresh state on another drive with an empty community folder? That alone will immediately tell you where you should be looking for faults, without doing absolutely anything else. You’ve spent all this money on your sim, what’s another $100 or less on an extra drive to test a clean install on? You can also get a month long trial version of Macrium reflect to back up your drives for free. You can also download your windows version for free- it does not have to be activated for testing purposes.
Heck, have you tried JUST running with an empty community folder alone?
As how widespread the issue is, we are all statistically dumb. We hear “everybody is having this issue or that issue” with the sim and automatically every other game or app on the planet is perfect and MSFS is the culprit. Go ahead. Search the internet for every AAA game title ever made. You WILL find a corresponding forum of outcries of issues upon issues for each one. That is the nature of an open hardware structure which is that of a PC. Content and app creators cannot possibly test their wares on literally every hardware combination there is- probably well into the tens or hundreds of thousands. Yes MSFS is flawed, and unstable and unoptimized. But so are other apps and games to varying degrees. But not for everyone. Your mileage will vary.
Personally, I’ve had MSFS running on five systems! Yes five! The oldest one is an Asus X79 sabertooth with an I7 4770k with 32Gb of DDR3 and a 1080 Strix. The next one is an Asus X99 Deluxe II with a Haswell I7 5960X overclocked to 4.7Ghz, 64Gb of quad channel DDR4, with an Nvidia Titan Xp. The third system was a Z390/ 9900K/2080ti. that system is now part my wife’s pc as I’ve upgraded to 2 Z690/DDR5/3080ti platforms, I’ve already mentioned one in my first post. Both identical- one is an itx build.
Yes I’ve tested all these, because I’m crazy that way. No freezes no CTD’s, only variances in performance throughout, due to the generational specs and differences of these PCs.
So, I don’t know- go try stuff I’ve mentioned earlier in this post and my first post, and try things other people have mentioned. At least report here what you HAVE tried, instead of biting my head off and, then flagging me for defending myself.
Also, I used to waste a lot of time while constantly tinkering with config files.
