Main Menu CTD after a couple of minutes of idling

Bug Reporting Hub Crashes (CTDs)
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Steam

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No

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No

Brief description of the issue:
After a couple of minutes when leaving the simulator alone - without taking any actions - the sim crashes to desktop.

Provide Screenshot(s)/video(s) of the issue encountered:

Detail steps to reproduce the issue encountered:

PC specs for those who want to assist (if not entered in your profile)
i5 10400F
Patriot Viper memory - 16 GB (8 GBx2) at 3600 MHz
Gigabyte Eagle 3060 Ti
MSI Z490-A PRO
Thrustmaster T16000M FCS Hotas

Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:
1.19.9.0

Did you submit this to Zendesk? If so, what is your ticket #?

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Just some suggestions:

  1. If you’re not running vsync, consider locking it at 60fps. The sim continues rendering the background images on main menu and if unlocked, usually it’s been happening at max GPU cycles to the tune of 100+ fps.

  2. Are you overclocking any components? Run them at factory clock. Check your RAM settings in BIOS and turn off XMP for example.

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there exist soooooooo many topics about these sympthom.

In main menu is a high-system load because of these useless background hanger rendering.
The most common issue was, that users GPU run at these point in overheat ( if not in main-menu, then later in-flight ).

Therefore the hint to fix the “sympthom” : limit your fps in nvidia control center, as @CasualClick mentioned. ( I recommend to set both value: max fps and max background fps (if window is in background , thus can be much lower))

If that will help, you should find the real root cause at your system. Beside of GPU there a other components which can over-heat too. Possible is also your RAM… overcloacked 3600’er sticks are a common issue pool…