After the release of SU4, I’ve started to have issues where selecting a new aircraft after flying can either freeze the sim, or CTD. Happens even with the Community folder empty, though I guess it could be a Marketplace add-on causing the issue.
Anyone had a similar issue and found a solution? Tried searching here but it sounds like I’m lucky and am hitting an issue that’s not commonplace.
(Win 11 25H2, latest Nvidia drivers on an RTX 4090)
Yes, I have been experiencing the same but my system is freezing a lot more than ever before. I have been getting periodic CTD’s but the freezing is worse. They last anywhere from15 seconds to a few minutes. Seems to have just started out of no where. I’m feeling like the update may be asking my CPU to do something is doesn’t want to do…..
FYI in case anyone else runs into this finds this report in a search: It appears Airshow Assistant under FS2024 SU4 is the culprit. Since disabling the utility, I’ve been able to switch planes and start second flights without CTDs/freezes.
Problem reported to Touching Cloud.
Hi, this issue still occurs on SU5 betas. Would you also report about it through your tunnel or should I raise a new thread on SU5 beta category?
Mentioned it over on their Discord.
If anyone else is looking for the Discord, it’s here: ALBATROSS Racing
#tools-general topic
I have the same issue, first flight everything loads just fine, but then after ending the flight and selecting a new aircraft the sim usually freezes and I have to manually quit via task manager and reboot. Rinse and repeat anytime I want to switch planes.
Granted I have most of the popular 3rd party aircraft and plenty of airports in my community folder. Not sure if the sim is just over saturated with 3rd party content or what. I had more mods in my community folder in 2020 and this never happened.
I noticed this started happening after SU4.
Do you have Airshow Assistant installed? If so, see previous messages.
Yes I have air show assistant. I’ll try disabling it
This seems to have been the culprit. I disabled airshow assistant and no crashes so far!
The good news is that the 2024 update for Airshow Assistant is in the works, so hopefully we’ll be able to use it again soon.
Platform: PC — Microsoft Store / Xbox app
Operating system: Windows 11 Home 64-bit
Issue category: Freezes / performance degradation / possible deadlock
Version: Sim Update 07 1.9.18
Since a recent Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 update, I have been experiencing reproducible freezes when loading flights. The behaviour is different on the first and subsequent flights within the same simulator session.
The simulator does not immediately crash to desktop. Instead, the image freezes while the aircraft’s audio continues playing normally.
When I load the first flight, the screen freezes for approximately one minute, sometimes longer, almost immediately after the flight starts.
Although the image is completely frozen, the audio continues. For example, when starting the Cirrus, I can still hear the normal engine-start sequence and its three beeps while the screen remains frozen.
After approximately one minute, the simulator becomes responsive again. I can then fly normally, change views, and even complete landings at several airports.
The problem becomes much more severe when I end the first flight and select another flight. This also happens when selecting the same aircraft again, so it does not appear to be limited to switching aircraft.
The screen can remain frozen for approximately 10 minutes before the simulator becomes responsive again.
When it finally recovers, performance is severely degraded, with very low FPS and substantial stuttering. I stopped flying in this condition because performance was too poor.
If I completely close MSFS 2024 and launch it again, the first flight returns to the previous behaviour: an initial freeze lasting approximately one minute, followed by relatively normal performance.
In other words, restarting the simulator allows me to fly one flight reasonably well, but loading a second flight in the same session causes a much longer freeze and severe performance degradation.
Repeated the tests across multiple flights.
Tested with the same aircraft on successive flights.
Renamed the FlyByWire and PMS50 folders to disable those add-ons during testing.
Confirmed that the issue still needs to be investigated with third-party add-ons disabled; I have not established that Marketplace aircraft are responsible.
No external traffic-injection application was running during the affected flights.
I have not changed my BIOS or GPU configuration as part of this investigation.
I own several Marketplace aircraft, including the iniBuilds A380, but I was not using the A380 during these tests. I do not know whether any Marketplace content is related to the issue.
Changing views can also produce stuttering, although I am not certain whether this is a separate issue or related to my DLSS Balanced and frame-generation settings.
The simulator’s report contains the following information:
Where="HangDetector"
Code=0xC0000194
This appears consistent with a possible deadlock or hang, but I cannot determine the underlying cause from the report alone.
I will attach the relevant Asobo report generated by the simulator so that the development team and other users can examine the full diagnostic information.
CPU: Intel Core i7-14700KF
GPU: MSI NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 12 GB
RAM: 32 GB DDR5
Motherboard: MSI MAG Z790 TOMAHAWK MAX WIFI
Operating system: Windows 11 Home 64-bit
Simulator: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, Microsoft Store / Xbox app
Resolution: 3840 × 2160 (4K)
Does anyone experience a similar freeze when loading the first flight, followed by a much longer freeze when loading the second flight?
Does the simulator’s audio continue playing while the screen is frozen?
After the second freeze, do you also experience very low FPS and severe stuttering?
Does completely restarting the simulator temporarily restore normal performance for the first flight?
Has anyone found a confirmed workaround or identified a connection with a recent simulator update?
I would appreciate it if other users experiencing the same behaviour could share their simulator version, hardware specifications, and Asobo report details.
I am trying to establish whether this is a wider MSFS 2024 regression rather than an issue specific to my PC.
Thank you.