Don’t know if it’s just me, or if anyone else has noticed, but the CTD’s at least for me, only happen at certain airports, and not necessarily certain parts of the world. Weird thing is I flew from one airport to an airport that crashes, and on approach, the SIM crashed.
Disabling real-time protection also worked for me. I hope they fix it in the right way soon, because we are making our machines vulnerable to run the sim
You are describing a different kind of crash. If it is only on airports the CTD’s are pointing to system stability issues/RAM issues/GPU OC issues… so different issue here, imo
I found with McAfee, I had to add “gamingservices.exe” to the real time scanning exclusion list, and then the sim worked fine. Adding the file was an issue since it’s behind a “closed folder” on my system, but there’s a workaround to get to the file if you need to do that. Seems better than turning off your real time scanning.
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Luckily there are forums and smart people who solve everything or almost everything … thank you very much community … I also solved the problem …
No I try to never play with the registry. Since gamingservices.exe is a service, you can open task manager, go to the services tab, right click on the file, and click “go to details”. Once there, right click on gamingservices.exe, and click “open file location”. Once I’m in the right location, I still couldn’t add the file to my exclusion list, so I copied (do not cut and paste!!!) the file to a temp location, and then I could add it to my real time scan exclusion list from the temp location.
That worked for me at least, so hopefully it helps someone else.
The other method will work, but it does leave you somewhat vulnerable.
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Somewhat. Yes, I think advising people to disable what is likely their own protection to get one piece of software to work is very reckless.
Let me remind those in this thread the words beneath that option:
The wording will differ from version to version, this is from 20H2. If a user gets infected with something because of this, I wouldn’t want to be the one responsible for telling them to do this.
There has to be an actual alternative to this without throwing security out the window, like, oh I don’t know, how about an exception?
Yea I would never advocate for turning off any protections for any length of time. The bottom line is MS needs to find out why the latest version of that file needs any workarounds to get their program to start.
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I would be asking why is it I can run the sim without having to turn that off, and also with no exceptions in place. If Windows Defender really is blocking something, then it will show up quarantine.
