CTD while attempting the Maverick: Darkstar Stratospheric Flight Challenge

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Brief description of the issue:

I have the Steam version of Microsoft Flight Simulator.
I am trying to complete the Maverick: Darkstar Stratospheric Flight Challenge but I haven’t reached Cape Canaveral once without the game crashing to desktop.
The game now crashed about 10 times so that’s why I create this issue report.
I’m pretty sure it is more likely to happen the longer I am in a flight because it never happens in the shorter challenges but it always happens at some place in the Darkstar Challenge. Like… I can play the time and height challenges for hours at a time without the game crashing once but once I start that Darkstar challenge there is a 100% chance of the game crashing somewhere between reaching 120’000 feet and getting very very close to Cape Canaveral.

I have tried everything I could find on the internet so far:

  • Updated all pending Windows Updates
  • Updated Grpahics Driver
  • Updated peripheral driver
  • Lowered the graphic settings to a bare minimum
  • Underclocked my GPU
  • Removed all peripherals other than my mouse and keyboard
  • Switched to offline mode
  • Emptied Community folder
  • Disabled the Steam overlay
  • Verified integrity of game files
  • Increased Virtual Memory (Even though this is overkill since I have 64GB of RAM)
  • A lot more I can’t remember right now…

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Video of it happening:


(It also happens when there is no connection issue.)

Problem details:
I am getting two different Exception Offsets but it is always the same two. It seems to be random which one I get.

The first one:

Description
Faulting Application Path:	N:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\MicrosoftFlightSimulator\FlightSimulator.exe

Problem signature
Problem Event Name:	APPCRASH
Application Name:	FlightSimulator.exe
Application Version:	1.25.9.0
Application Timestamp:	00000000
Fault Module Name:	FlightSimulator.exe
Fault Module Version:	1.25.9.0
Fault Module Timestamp:	00000000
Exception Code:	c0000005
Exception Offset:	00000000021ae436
OS Version:	10.0.19043.2.0.0.256.121
Locale ID:	8192
Additional Information 1:	129a
Additional Information 2:	129ac1d7e1973ab760f89667909428d5
Additional Information 3:	7532
Additional Information 4:	75320730d7103df4238b9be7f64a7833

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID:	cec5dd1a23ccaadbf6ae88ad9e34e2b8 (1634393994047054520)

The second one:

Description
Faulting Application Path:	N:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\MicrosoftFlightSimulator\FlightSimulator.exe

Problem signature
Problem Event Name:	APPCRASH
Application Name:	FlightSimulator.exe
Application Version:	1.25.9.0
Application Timestamp:	00000000
Fault Module Name:	FlightSimulator.exe
Fault Module Version:	1.25.9.0
Fault Module Timestamp:	00000000
Exception Code:	c0000005
Exception Offset:	000000000167e774
OS Version:	10.0.19043.2.0.0.256.121
Locale ID:	8192
Additional Information 1:	8861
Additional Information 2:	8861c3ad716830e9d5f29ddffdab30f7
Additional Information 3:	dc00
Additional Information 4:	dc009a07bf2ef693b62e8a72af2cd458

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID:	ee53145c8330666556c072d13d250298 (1639436507362427544)

Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:

  1. Launch the game.
  2. Start the Maverick: Darkstar Stratospheric Flight Challenge.
  3. Start your flight.
  4. Crashes to Desktop between 20 and 30 minutes into the flight.

PC specs and/or peripheral set up if relevant:

Graphics: ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER O8G-GAMING
RAM: 4x16 GB DDR4-3200 Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro
CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K @ 3.70 GHz
Game storage location: Samsung 970 Evo Plus (2TB, M.2)
Peripheral: Logitech Freedom 2.4 Cordless Joystick (963283-0914)
It also crashes without the Joystick!

Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:

1.25.9.0


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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?

I get a similar but not the same issue.

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(A). When after reaching Mach 9 and higher than 200,000 feet, I descend to near 120,000 feet altitude, and when nearing that target altitude the sim freezes the display for several seconds with no sound, and then it works again. (B). The Objective panel basically freezes during the descent phase; it doesn’t get beyond the Pitch Down 10 degrees so it doesn’t display the remaining objectives while on the descent and approach to land. (C). I landed the Darkstar on the runway at KXMR but didn’t get the achievement triggered. Then after the landing I was attempting to taxi on the taxiway off the runway to the apron; I reached near the taxiway and then it did a CTD.

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?

I get a CTD and a memory could not be read error.

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The CTD occurs as I approach landing at the cape. Uusually when I at about mach 1.5 and 10,000ft.

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