ISSUE DESCRIPTION Description of the issue: Freeze when quitting to desktop. Always. [PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue? No mods installed. FREQUENCY OF ISSUE How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on…

Unfortunately I don’t have any great advice on how to clear the issue. I did lots of fiddling about, cleared community, a re-install, forced it to start in safe mode. It started working again after I re-enabled a bit of marketplace content, but that may well just have been a coincidence.

Same problem. I remove all files of the community folder and same problem. When I ty to load PLN files from EPB somtime the game freeze. When I launch again MSFS2024 the PLN loading file work. Msfs SU4 and SU5 same bugs. :slight_smile: Welcome to tricks :slight_smile:

I don’t have this issue now, but I did have in SU4 beta. I believe the hang is that the game is trying to send data to the xbox cloud on shutdown and for some reason can’t. Thinking about this logically it might be worth checking your hosts file. I know that there is knowledge about a third party a…

Same here after SU5 final update. Need to kill program through task manager in order to return to desktop. Rebooting PC and restarting MSFS makes possible to quit again properly (few times until problem reoccurs). Seems that a reboot temporarily resets the problem. After “the freeze at quit” at l…

I am having the exact same issue (with a 5090) and so are many others. How about a quick update to fix this issue??

I tried your suggestion, but it didn’t work for me. I tried removing everything from my community folder and still could not exit the FS. I tried uninstalling the FS24 and re installed it on a different drive, same issue. I tried deleting the wgs folder and same thing. MS needs to put out a fix for …

This could be your control settings which get saved to the cloud. The only way to know would be to delete your control profiles until you are back to having only the None profiles. You could reinstall the sim, and you may get the last successful control profile from the cloud. But, I wouldn’t cou…

Getting the same issue since SU5 - happens in VR and when i exit VR.

I have done all that including uninstall and reinstall MSFS24 to a different drive, and removing my setup from the cloud. It did not work, still having the same issue. SU5 really messed things up. Even the Import/Export control profiles freezes the sim.

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MSFS 2024 freezes when quitting to desktop

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DementedCorn327 May 8, 2026, 11:16am 30

A possible workaround here: If MSFS24 freezes on exit, this might be the solution for you!