My Fix for CTD and Update Loop: Decrease RAM Speed

Bug Reporting Hub Crashes (CTDs)
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For all those who suffered constant CTD even in loading menu, tried dialing back your RAM speed. This fixed my problem before the England Update.

I’ve bought MSFS2020 for 5 days now, I’ve suffered constant CTD in loading menu, and even if I were able to get the plane to fly, I would CTD in less than 30min. I tried the common suggested solutions on this forum, but CTD is still none stop.

Then I tried tweaking CPU OC and my GPU, thinking maybe I had unstable OC, however it was no help. I even got myself into 100gigs update loop several times that cost me 2 days to fix.

Finally what got it to work is dialing RAM speed from 3333 to 2666.
It magically fixed all the problems. Download went smoothly, game runs perfectly for 3 hours straight.

Just wanted to share my experience, and hopefully it can help others facing the same issue and havn’t thought about RAM speed.

Do you have any add-ons in your Community folder? If yes, please remove and retest before posting. No.

Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it? No.

Brief description of the issue: CTD during main menu, in-flight, random updates resets (have to re-download 100gigs of update repeatedly), update download loop etc. I had all these issues mentioned on the forum.

Provide Screenshot(s)/video(s) of the issue encountered: I didn’t take a screenshot.

Detail steps to reproduce the issue encountered: everything I can think of and the fix suggestions found here.

PC specs for those who want to assist (if not entered in your profile)

i7-7700K OC @ 4.9
RTX2080 ti no OC.
32GB DDR4-3333
2K resolution

Did you submit this to Zendesk? If so, what is your ticket #? No.

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So does that mean, just turn off XMP in the BIOS?

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I choose to go from 3333 to 2666 because I saved 2 BIOS profiles with these speed and same CPU OC. It was simply few clicks fix for me.

I probably would have gotten it to work with 2999 or 3200, so XMP off might be overkill.

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Of all the software categories from all time, for a major flight simulator to compel its users to reduce CPU/GPU/MEM speed is…opposite. :crazy_face:

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I know it’s ridiculous. Hopefully Microsoft will find the cause of the issue and fix it soon so I can gain 5 more fps in flight.

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yep… enabling XMP mode was one of the favorit within the big CTD thread.

With 2666 you go back to normal JEDEC Standard and this worked just ever.

XMP is kind of overcloacking, indep. that lots of users not want hear that :joy: