CTD on switch to VR

User Support Hub Virtual Reality (VR)
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Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it?

No

Have you disabled/removed all your mods and addons?

Yes

Brief description of the issue:

Reliable, 100% chance crash any time I switch to VR

Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:

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PC specs and peripheral set up:

Quest 2; 3090; 32GB Ram; 3700X

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There are no events with the ID 1001 during a crash. However, I do get reliability report and it’s basically identical every time:
Faulting application name: FlightSimulator.exe, version: 1.31.22.0, time stamp: 0x6409dda0
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.19041.2130, time stamp: 0xb5ced1c6
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000003076e
Faulting process id: 0x1054
Faulting application start time: 0x01d95afea384287e
Faulting application path: K:\STEAM M.2\steamapps\common\MicrosoftFlightSimulator\FlightSimulator.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 7206d822-8b0c-4f43-8f87-8cee993d8226
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:

Bought the game 2 days ago on steam so that’s when it started. Switched to SU12 Beta and it’s identical.

I’ve tried removing OpenXR / OpenXR toolkit / OpenComposite, reinstalling, turning off, on. Using both DX11 and DX12. All of the combinations are the same: I’ve never been able to see the game in VR at all, it ALWAYS crashes the moment I try to switch it on.

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Solution:
MSI Afterburner was causing this. Have to keep it turned off.

You have to turn off every background process you can afford to turn off (sound services, VR/Performance related apps, unrelated apps) and launch MSFS only after that. VR started working after I killed enough things, and then it was a matter of turning on one program after another while relaunching MSFS until it no longer worked again. MSI Afterburner (and maybe Dragon Center) was the issue for me.