No more CTD
IF YOU NEED TO KNOW RIGHT NOW WHAT WE DID TO SOLVE THIS, SKIP TO THE END.
Keep in mind, I still believe there are more than 1 reason for CTD.
This is mine. It may not be yours.
I only share it for us to co-mingle ideas and maybe we can all fasttrack a fix.
But first let’s Recap - what did NOT work for me:
I do thank everyone for their contributions and thoughts.
Tried creating flights with different software - did not make a difference.
Tried running as user then as administrator - did not make a difference.
No mods in my community folder - did not make a difference.
Not running any other add-on software - did not make a difference.
Not running any add-on aircraft - just what was supplied by msfs 2020 - did not make a difference.
Msfs 2020 up to date - did not make a difference.
Added 32GB to my page file - did not make a difference.
Added a new drive, for dual boot, with sim files only - did not make a difference.
Added a very fast M.2 drive - now flight sim boots to a prestine boot drive, and msfs 2020 then runs off a very fast additional M.2 drive - that did not make any difference.
Re-installed all factory motherboard, video and sound drivers - that did not work.
No anti-virus installed - did not matter.
No additional programs on the sim boot drive - did not matter.
Turned “game mode” off in windows - did not matter.
Turned off "hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling in windows - did not matter.
Had a script created that in a few seconds will scan the entire computer system, and turn off anything that will put a hard drive to sleep and disabled windows power management - did not matter.
Exhaustive analysis of my bios - many tries and changes - did not matter.
No overclocking - of anything - did not matter.
I lowered AI traffic, then turned off - did not matter.
2 things I believe helped ME.
- Motherboard update
- Reverting from usb 3.0 to usb 2.0 for ALL my flight periferals.
After these, no CTD.
I noticed that on occasion my motherboard would “hang” when rebooting. I would have to turn the system completely off and then back on.
So…I installed another motherboard I had sitting around with an AMD 3900XT. Used the same 32GB ram, after all installed - computer worked better, but was not sure if it made any difference to my flight sim.
Finally last weekend, I notice that my throttle leds were “off”. They were always “on” I thought I had forgotten to hook up a usb cable while upgrading.
I was plugging it into a usb 3.0 add-on card, same card used with last motherboard that was “hanging up”. I moved that one cable from 3.0 to a 2.0 slot and the throttle began working again. Guess I stuck it in the wrong slot when upgrading. First I knew about the problem with usb 3.0.
We ordered a new 2.0 usb add-on card, and after installing it on Teusday, and installing ALL by usb cables into the 2.0 slots, all hardware worked smoothly.
Last night I flew a short 30 minute flight. No problems. No CTD. While flying, I would go in and out of the flight to make msfs 2020 changes. All kinds of things that used to freeze the program and/or CTD. All worked well for me. This is all in VR. I will comment about the VR in a moment.
Finally, in VR, made a 5 hour flight. No CTD, no freezing.
Too soon to tell for sure, but I am hopeful that I solved the problem.
I will post further, only if there is another CTD.
Conclusions:
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No one should have to work so hard to make an expensive product function. But with that said, it may have been me and a hardware problem all along, nothing to do with msfs 2020 or updates.
I only do this because it helps me stay current with eye/hand coordination when flying IRL and you don’t have to spend all that money on fuel keeping your skill set up. I’m not using this as a “game”. Plenty of those. I using it as an unofficial training tool.
Not sure yet if the problems I’m experiencing in VR is my hardware, software settings or the flight sim. At least now with CTD hopefully solved, I can begin troubleshooting this problem.
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VR is in cave man mode. Last nights flight was the most horrible VR visual I have ever experienced in msfs 2020.
I use Pimax 5k+ with all current updates. Works flawlessly with Fly2, X- plane and DCS.
I will post more about the VR in the VR section.