I recently added a pi-hole to my network to keep the ads out and I just started getting CTDs right around the same time watson.telemetry.microsoft.com was blocked by the pi-hole.
Now as we all know by now any number of things could cause a CTD in msfs vr but I’ve struck three for three now and im just wondering if this is causing it and I have to whitelist the url or it’s pure coincidence cause I haven’t tinkered with any other setting in the sim.
The three failed attempts where in a Bonanza trying to fly from Mont Blanc to Zurich and the CTDs came at the same time the pi-hole blocked the telemetry url. The AMD driver didn’t crash nor did the reverb G2 disconnect via usb as it sometimes did when I first got it. This was just the sim crashing.
I just whitelisted that url and flew the same route with no issues (although I switched to the citation, I was in a rush ).
This is by no means a real test so I would have to see what happens with more testing when I or someone else gets the time.
These telemetry data are sent AFTER a crash occurs. Watson, is the generic/legacy name that Microsoft associate with a crash in windows since 30 years.
So, even if you block the domain with Pi-Hole, it doesn’t matter, because the dump upload occurs after a crash.
Hmm okay that’s interesting. I have seen that URL called periodically every hour or so when there is no crash and the pc is running just fine with the sim off.
Let me see how I go. I’ll play around a bit and see what happens.
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