Well this is interesting!
I just took this screenshot, to document the change from AI traffic build up to turning it off.
But! When I turned off AI traffic, instead of having them disappear and getting a performance boost I got a, wait for it…CTD!
Error 10/21/2020 7:56:36 PM .NET Runtime 1026 None
Application: FlightSimulator.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: exception code c0000005, exception address 00007FF7C8F1B46C
Error 10/21/2020 7:56:39 PM Application Error 1000 (100)
Faulting application name: FlightSimulator.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x5f7c8cf2
Faulting module name: FlightSimulator.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x5f7c8cf2
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000003db46c
Faulting process id: 0x3e88
Faulting application start time: 0x01d6a7eebf714115
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.9.5.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\FlightSimulator.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.9.5.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\FlightSimulator.exe
Report Id: 40febc95-6c57-4e9e-adb3-f3f8365db6c2
Faulting package full name: Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.9.5.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Faulting package-relative application ID: App
This is similar but not identical to an error I saw over here: VCRUNTIME140.dll Error