I’ve been playing MSFS on my current PC forever, just earned the 1k hours achievement. In the last month, I cannot get past the main menu. As MSFS loads a flight and transitions to the ‘fly now’ button, green screen and reboot. Initially I could fly for ~2 minutes and then green screen, but that evolved and I can’t even get into the cockpit now. I’ve removed and clean installed both MSFS and Nvidia drivers, scanned my PC for errors, chkdsk, removed community files, clean PC, etc, as well as sought out any error logs. Developer mode off. All dead ends. Any ideas?
Never has a GSOD … so thank you… after a little Google searching, I now at least know what it is …
Lots of “GENERAL” suggestion on how to fix on the Internet
(Most of which are so generic fixes , to be totally useless)
So now I am wondering what GSOD messages, MSFS gives ???
(below is NOT necessarily a MSFS GSOD message)
A Green Screen of Death (GSOD) is a critical error that occurs on Windows computers when the system encounters a severe problem that it cannot recover. The term “Green Screen of Death” is derived from the well-known “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD), which is a similar error message that appears in blue color.
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Never heard of a GSOD!
Sounds like a deeper issue than MSFS though. Don’t take my word for it alone (please don’t!) but I would consider a full reformat and reinstall Windows.
First though, have you run a stress test on the system?
OCCT is a renowned tool to use. Test memory and CPU (as 2 separate 1 hour tests) and drives and maybe GPU. The whole shebang.
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CRITICAL PROCESS DIED is the green screen stop code I receive.
as last resort –
The Ideal solution would have been a full Image restore from a backup before you started to have these issues, but of course you would have to have been doing full image backups.
Even one full windows re-install, and re-installing (& downloading) all the apps for your system, might be enough to persuade you to drop a couple of hundred bucks on a BIG multi terabyte backup drive. (and the appropriate software).
I Bit the bullet a few years go, to be able to image backup all my Computers, and it was the best purchase I even made for my computer systems.
ACRONIS IMAGE BACKUP 
(but not the newer versions, full of additional Bloatware) KISS
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How is the heat in your system? Might be a bad ram chip? When you scanned your pc for errors did you check the hardware or just the disks? Have you run any stress tests to see if your hardware is failing under stress?
Have you been experimenting with overclocking? I assume not but asking to make sure.
In any event, the fact it was progressively getting worse makes it seem like you’ve got a hardware issue. Could be the graphics card, too.
Could be the Power supply (Capacitors)
Could be a Trojan/virus
Could be a failing hard drive
Could be Motherboard Capacitors
Could be a loose connection
Could be GPU Capacitors
Electrolytic caps are about the worse components for failing over time, especially when run hot.
– and of course
Could just be MSFS
You might like to run this simple batch/cmd file, that may find some issues & fix them
echo off
cls
echo #####################################
echo # — REPAIR ----- #
echo #####################################echo on
echo (1 of 6)
Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
rem pause
echo -----------------------------------------
echo (2 of 6)
Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
rem pause
echo -----------------------------------------
echo (3 of 6)
Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth
rem pause
echo ------------------------------------------
echo (4 of 6)
sfc /scannow
rem pause
echo ------------------------------------------
echo (5 of 6)
Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /AnalyzeComponentStore
rem pause
echo ------------------------------------------
echo (6 of 6)
Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup
echo .
echo #####################################
echo # — FINISHED ----- #
echo #####################################
pause
Takes about a few minutes to run to completion.
Its surprising how easily some of these system files can get corrupted !!
just run it … found one minor issue today
I’ve never seen a GSOD either. I wonder if that’s a Insider preview feature.
Thanks all. Tried all these ideas and actually got in the cockpit and flew for a bit. After ending the flight after exiting to the main menu, green screen before the main menu loads. The only new trick was the /startcomponentcleanup part of that script, but I ran everything anyway. Clean installed MSFS onto new M2, clean nvidia install. Stress tests revealed nothing.
I’ve wiped my PC and clean installed W11, Nvidia drivers, MSFS and everything else.
SFC, DISM, etc. I even updated my Mobo BIOS to rule that out. My PC is completely stable except if I run MSFS wherein it promptly green screens (BSOD).
It typically green screens when loading up or exiting a flight session. The animation stutters, audio drops and then the screen locks. It greens out and reboots after ~10 seconds.
I’d normally ask if anyone has any ideas before I reset everything, but I have reset everything. I don’t know what else could be root causing this, does anyone have ideas?
What did you stress test?
It would typically be a memory or graphics card (memory or power) problem. Typically.
Sorry for your frustration.
Thanks for responding. Memtest, furmark, CPU-Z and some other freeware but didn’t uncover anything. I have an EVGA RTX 3080 so I hope it isn’t dead already. 
Hoping it is RAM!
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I Just had this problem , you are on the windows insider program like me , anyway i was doing a long flight from LGAV to EDDK , just over the austrian alps (about an hour and a bit in to the flight) i went to make a cup of coffee and BAM GSOD , however my PC did not restart i had to hard reset it.
Updated to the latest nvidia driver using DDU and performed chkdsk in command prompt and it repaired my C Drive .
Just doing a test flight now , will leave it running for a couple of hours to see if is a one off , will report back.
I did google the issue and it can be because of outdated drivers or even if you have plugged in any other peripherals , I was using headphones and i was charging my i phone as well , using the PC , so it could be that in my case .
like i said will report back , hope you managed to get it fixed ?
I took a new build several months ago that resolved this situation, but several weeks ago took another update and I am again getting green screens regularly. Sometimes after 5 minutes of flight, sometimes after an hour. I have noticed an intermittent buzz in my speakers that seems connected to the timing of the green screen, so I updated the Realtek audio drivers and disabled any advanced audio like spatial sound. It seems to have extended the time between green screens, but not resolved it. My working theory is an audio driver conflict of some sort.
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Yes i was getting audio buzzing coming from my speakers too, weird 
I did a chldsk which repaired windows but now i have uninstalled the latest insider updates, then unenrolled from the windows insider program so im on a stable build now outside of the insider program
I also did a DDU and installed the latest nvidia driver
Fingers crossed it seems to have resolved the issue
Hope you manage to sort your issue out