CTD out of nowhere when flying in the US

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CTD out of nowhere when flying, MSFS just stops responding and then a CTD occurs. Only started happening in the past couple of days, but already had 5 CTDs total when it was completely stable beforehand. A couple of sceneries have been installed in the past couple of days but it happens even when I’m not flying anywhere near where the sceneries are located. For example, I had a CTD when taxiing into the gate at DD KMDW, when taxiing out of Flightbeam KDEN, and just a few minutes ago when flying en route to MMUN from KDEN. Has happened in both PMDG 737-800 and 737-700, haven’t tried with any other addon.

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Fly on MSFS and then wait for it to CTD. There’s no specific pattern that I can deduce that causes the CTD, it happens randomly and without warning.

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i7-13700K, RTX4070Ti, 64GB DDR5 RAM

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If you have rolling cache enabled, try clearing it. That can sometimes resolve certain CTDs that are location based.

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So it was fine and then you updated some sceneries and now its not. Have you tried with an empty community folder or in Safe Mode?

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Yes but it happens at sceneries and locations which bare no relation to recently added sceneries. I was en route to Cancun from Denver and it crashed near the southern Texas coast; I don’t have any sceneries in that area and none of the recently added sceneries are near there. Could they still be causing an issue?

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Yeah, were these freeware scenery? Or payware?
If you don’t get a lot of CTD’s and now they occur after installing the scenery…its the likely the culprit.
Sometimes there are files in the scenery folders that conflict with other scenery…even if they’re on the other side of the planet. Its not you…its Asobo’s wonky file structure and worse yet, its the developers that add in garbage that conflicts.
Are you USB controllers set properly? Not timed out. What have you done so far?

I’d clear everything out of community folder, uninstall all third party everything even from the sim’s marketplace if this continues.

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I’ll remove the addons that I’ve installed in the past couple of days and go from there. I haven’t done anything yet to remove everything, so will start with that and then work my way down from there - if that stops the crashing the I will have to contact the scenery developer. All of the scenery that I use is payware.

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Moved to #gd-commsupport:tech-talk which is more appropriate whilst others help you troubleshoot :+1:

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Ah, ok. Could you give me a list of the most recent ones you’ve installed?

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Flightbeam KDEN
iniBuilds KLAX
FlyTampa KLAS
DominicDesignTeam KPHL & KAUS
DrzewieckiDesign KMDW

& also PMDG 737-700 but the CTDs were happening with the 737-800 too.

I did study the event viewer log and there seems to be a lot of incidents of FSRealistic crashing, some of which have been followed by a sim crash on the log so I’ve uninstalled it and will report back as to whether that was the issue.

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Ah, that FS realistic is a possibility. Maybe not the root cause. Sometimes another app can appear to have “caused” the CTD when it was actually just crashed along side the sim. However, in the past…when ever my sim crashed, FS realistic stayed on haha.
I have that KDEN and have no problems.
The DD KMDW I’ve noticed CTDs and conflicts with other scenery. Example: I used to CTD often anywhwere near Chicago…out of the blue

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Could possibly be KMDW but it happens when I’m not near Chicago too. Started happening before installing KMDW too

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What Nvidia driver are you using? 545.84 was causing CTDs for me. I haven’t tried the new driver that was released today, so I cant speak on that, but you could give 536.99 a try. It has been a stable driver for me.

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I was on the one previous to the one available now (literally downloaded it yesterday evening to see if that helped but it didn’t). I’ll update the driver available now and will get back to you. Thanks for letting me know it’s available by the way!

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There’s been some reports of the driver released today (545.92) causing CTDs as well in MSFS. Try 536.99

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Still think this is overwhelmingly pointing to addons. Nvidia drivers have caused issues in the past though