CTD on every play

My issue seems solved with a bios update as well for 13th and 14th gen Intel chips. I am still testing but flew a 2 hour mission and was able to finally finish the flight without a CTD.

Still having constant CTD’s, and now my PC reboots when FS2024 crashes. This is with the latest BIOS for my i9-13900K. Tried the latest Nvidia driver and tried rolling back to the last one, still have constant CTD’s at the main opening page

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Just discovered this crash thread.

I had constant crashes with the Tech Preview running Windows 10, i9 13900K RTX 4090. MSFS 2024 would only stay up for a few seconds. I bought the collectors edition but I’ve been playing under Game Pass and it’s been absolutely fine.

Today I redeemed the MSFS 2024 Aviator edition having recieved the collectors edition by post and now I’m back to the sim constantly crashing.

Currently I’m trying to upgrade to Windows 11 to see if that fixes anything. :frowning_face:

Faulting application name: FlightSimulator2024.exe, version: 1.2.7.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Faulting module name: FlightSimulator2024.exe, version: 1.2.7.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000037efbe5
Faulting process ID: 0x7770
Faulting application start time: 0x01db5250c1833482
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Limitless_1.2.7.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\FlightSimulator2024.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Limitless_1.2.7.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\FlightSimulator2024.exe
Report ID: 9480568e-d985-4fd4-ab8c-bf7b2aacd111
Faulting package full name: Microsoft.Limitless_1.2.7.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Faulting package-relative application ID: App

Continuous CTD. Even in the menu, not even in a cockpit. Everything is updated: Bios/nvidia/Win11. Reinstalled MS2024 more than once and deleted app data, and no luck either. Haven’t been able to play for 3-4 weeks. It was working perfectly for me prior, then they pushed an update to fix bugs and now I get CTD and the game has been unplayable since December 11th.

My crashes have been fixed in MSFS 2024. I don’t know why they happened when moving from the Game Pass edition to the Aviators edition. Somethinng for Asobo to look at if they spot this post. :smiley:

My crashes were related to the Asus Sonic Studio 2 driver which I’m guessing in combination with a ROG motherboard caused some problems with MSFS 2024. MSFS was fine though. The fix was to disable the driver, deleting it appeared to just cause it to come back again.

FYI @BinauralNickel9

Thank you but unfortunately your troubleshooting steps were irrelevant. I tried these troubleshooting steps first, and had high hopes they would help, but sadly I have already spent 20-30+ hours already troubleshooting everything and only one or two things on your list I hadn’t tried yet. Sadly they didn’t work either.

So since I have been slowly and slowly becoming more and more ■■■■■■ and frustrated with this game refusing to work for more than a few seconds, I figured I would reinstall Windows 11 from scratch. So I did. I deleted my 6 tb of partitions without backing anything up (again, ■■■■■■), and started from scratch. Downloading everything from new. Sadly MS2024 worked for a few minutes before the first crash, but every time after that, regardless of location, the game crashes. I could choose somewhere busy like DFW, or a remote island. Even Antarctica once (minimal everything). Regardless of what peripherals are connected. Regardless of what software is running. Brand new Windows 11, fully patched. Latest Nvidia drivers. Latest bios. It couldn’t be a more pristine system and MS2024 crashes over and over and over.

I feel you introduced a memory leak in the update 3 weeks ago. Prior to that update I had pretty much no problems and was flying normally just fine. But after that patch I literally can’t go 5 seconds to 90 seconds in a flight without it crashing. And I sometimes even have it crash in the menu, not even in a flight. And the craziest thing (as some others have mentioned) is my entire computer crashes and reboots about 1 out of 15 or 20 attempts at flying. All the other crashes are just CTD. I have never EVER had a crash that rebooted on any other game or program ever in years and years. This game is the only one that has managed to do that. After the Windows 11, today I had the crash rebooting my system while in flight.

The other reason memory leak comes to mind is I followed a suggest on youtube (prior to installing Windows 11) to delete out all scenery and some appdata folders. When I did this the game actually ran for maybe 10-15 minutes. I thought the problem was finally fixed. But no, thereafter crashes within 1 to 2 minutes. I’m lucky if I ever get more than two minutes.

I’ve tried every. I’ve even tried things like setting my Windows swap file to 100gb. I’ve tried setting the MS2024 online cache file to 500gb instead of the default 16. Nothing helps.

Here are my specs in case it is helpful. All of us should post our specs with this CTD problem to see if there is something in common we are all using:

1300w ps
9800x3D cpu (liquid cooler)
64GB 6000mhz ram
4090 gpu
Crucial T705 ssd
Pimax Crystal vr
Brunner Yoke

I hope at some the option to allow users to download the full 1.5tb game. Maybe this would solve all our problems.

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Update: Since I was using the Steam version, I downloaded the MS Gamepass version, hoping maybe it was a Steam problem, but no luck. One crash to spinning wheel, and two full crash to reboots. Got about 2-3 minutes out of each of the three flights before they crashed. I didn’t even try using VR on these three flights. Typically 99% of the time I am using vr. It didn’t seem to make a difference as I didn’t even get that far to try it.

I also updated the Nvidia driver to the latest hotfix 566.45, and that also did not help.

I am getting the exact same crashes and am absolutely frustrated with the MS/ Asobo team who cant get their ■■■■ straight. I also really agree with this memory leak theory you have. I feel this CTD started with the last upate in FS2020. I have played it for 4 yrs and never had as many random CTD’s as i did with FS2020 in the last few months on the year. To the point that FS2020 was un playable , and i was looking forward to the ’ Better’ sim, FS2024.

Well, same horrible coding issue seems to have happened with FS2024 and 100% worse now, CTD;s every time, completely random, and inevitably its the 0xc00005 [ out of memory] code in event viewer.

I cannot explain enough my frustration/ anger and bitter dissappointment at Asobo. All they want to do is make amazing videos [like they did for 2024] / Over promise and under -deliver.

The only thing that works well in FS2024 is the opening video; thats it. after that, its a ■■■■ show. random CTD;s, within seconds of hitting FLY NOW. some just in the menu.

Had the Same issued with Gaya EDDF. Replaced it with Aerosoft EDDF and this solved my CTDs at this Airport.

So maybe its faulty scenery?

Got some evident memory leak issues as well:

Together with several of these:

Have tried multiple locations. I have nothing in my community folder.

So , to summarize, i was havng constant CTD’s in FS2024, with the error/ code 0xc00005.

i tried all the fixes as described above, including updating drivers, BIOS, increased page file but nothing worked. When i opened a Zendesk ticket for this error code 0xc00005, the zendesk page said that people with i9-13900 processors may have CTD’s due to damage to processors due to some voltage issue with certain motherboards [ Like ASUS motherboards], and Asobo/ Zendesk recommended opening a ticket with Intel [there is a separate topic on this elsewhere].

So i opened a ticket with Intel, and got my replacement i9-13900K CPU yesterday. I replaced my old CPU with this one. Incidentally, i felt like two of my memory sticks were VERY VERy slightly not fully seated in their slots. When i pressed down on them, i heard a satisfying click.

Today there was also a small update to the sim. Anyway, i have FINALLY completed two full flights of FS2024 and they were rock solid and smooth from start to finish! I also went into VR, and there were no CTD’s there either!

Previously i also would have to reboot my PC after a long flight [ as if i didnt, my PC would crash]. But this time. I flew 2 VFR flights in VR, without rebooting my PC and both were smoot hand rock solid!

So for other with the Intel i9-13 or i9-14oo CPU’s look into this issue. Also make sure your RAM is properly seated in the slots.