Every crash I have ever had in this game has shown errors that are .Net related… VC80 and the ntdll. Side by Side errors come up as well. The errors have increased for me upon installing a .Net preview update, specifically KB5004331. I mentioned it in the following post. It was a ‘preview’ at the time it auto installed and I always stay away from preview updates. I also get the Disk # 7 or 8 has been surprised removed when these crashes occur. Mind you, I only have 6 drives in my PC, 4 Solid State Drives and two Hard Drives. This one occurs with other games as well that you get specifically through windows store app. Apparently there are many virtual disks being created when the game is running. I found this out on a forum post about Forza and then another poster showed he was crashing in MSFS with this Disk Surprised Removed being listed in event viewer. He had screenshots of like 10 or more virtual disks active with the game process by clicking to show hidden drives.
When I first installed this game I did it with a fresh OS install and only the latest versions of .Net and specifically avoided installing some other games because they install older .Net version assemblies that are know to cause side by side errors that result in crashing other apps and games. So, as time has gone on it appears to me the crashing with these .Net errors has increased at every .Net update. One of these .Net updates was seemingly mandatory for the sim to even launch, not sure which it was exactly but it was before KB5004331 and when I searched for updates as a post here on the forums suggested to, there was a few updates for .Net that once they were installed the game launched again.
Anyways, sorry for the long post. I just felt as if it was relevant to mention.
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