Now when I launch the simulator it immediately crashes to desktop. Nothing has changed on my PC settings or anything. Faulting application name: FlightSimulator.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x5f9c1bd0 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.19041.546, time stamp: 0x5b56177b Exceptio…

Open Windows defender and turn off real-time protection :slight_smile: [obraz]

Disabling the Real Time Protection worked. Nice of Microsoft to make it where you have to make your PC vulnerable to run the sim.

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 solved this for me.

Where is Real-time protection? I have Windows Security but not Windows Defender - same thing? But I don’t see “Real-time protection” anywhere.

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

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3569-turn-off-real-time-protection-microsoft-defender-antivirus.html

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 :blue_heart:

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 turnin…

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knatterton12 November 4, 2020, 4:43pm 8

Cannot be true, disabling real time protection is working. Hallelujah, MS you have to do something better.