A slow network connection can crash you out as easily as overclocked components.
I’ve had perfectly good half hour to an hour flights all week. Today, my first CTD in several months. But I got a crash dump out of it, and noted references to the TTS module. Notably, I had increased my offline AI traffic, which means ATC was “talking” more. I noted a series of slowdowns during flight, which coincided with ATC communicating with generic AI generated planes around me. Then the crash. It’s fair to say they’re likely related. Azure provides TTS if you have that option enabled.
This isn’t a locally installed standalone sim anymore. The combination of hardware, software and Cloud based delivery of core sim functionality all has to mesh together, everytime, for one to have a flawless flight. If not, then you have to remove as many dependencies as possible and regression test. That’s a very long and tedious but necessary process.