Note my own thread on this topic I’ve started myself.
My version of MSFS-2024 has been working well up until the last update than it went totally pear-shaped. Any attempt to run the game:
- (About 30% of the time) Throws a 2026 (unspecified), error, (which resolves to a cloud save error when I looked it up.)
- (100% of the time) It begins downloading external content and after some period of time, (varies over wide limits), crashes the entire system to a hard power reboot all the way back to the bios.
I have done everything, up to and including completely uninstalling MSFS-2024, deleting all files, deleting the X-Box App’s profile for the game, and clearing the saved cloud context.
I totally reinstalled from scratch, verified I had aggressive cooling fan settings set on my GPU and CPU - starting at 50% fan and rapidly rising to 100% fan at about 50°C
Wanting to exclude all other factors, I ran extensive torture testing on my system simultaneously:
- Prime95 in “beat the living bajesus out of it” mode for the CPU and RAM.
- AMD’s Adrenaline software’s GPU stress test, which does the same thing with the GPU.
. . . and let it run for about 12-14 hours.
Result: No problems.
- Max GPU temps - about 50°C
- Max CPU temps - no greater than 90°C with Prime95 maxed out.
My conclusion is that there is something intrinsically wrong with the software itself, (a memory leak?), that causes a kernel panic and a total system crash. Unfortunately I do not have access to the tools to research this further.
This is really disappointing.
What say ye?