After about my 50th CTD since I purchased this thing back in September, this time crashing after a two hour flight and 3nm from the rwy, my level of frustration is getting to be too much. I built a PC specifically for this sim, and it’s well over optimal specs to run it ( 19-10850K, RTX 3080, 30gb ram, etc…) I’ve followed all the best practices and great advice from the simmers on this forum and elsewhere.,such as cleaning out the Community folder prior to sim updates, clearing the rolling cache and what not. The OS and drivers are always kept current. I’m trying to run the FBW A32NX stable version, with no other addons and I literally cannot complete a flight. It results in either a CTD, or a freezup with a buzzing sound, followed by Windows forcing a reboot. Even if it’s the FBW mod that is responsible, I know that others are running it without any issues.The latest sim update also went pretty smooth. Beyond frustrated, but I’ll take a deep breath and ask again for any advice. Thanks.
The latest version of the SIM includes the A32NX as a default aircraft. What happens if you now remove all mods from community folder including the fly by wire mod and only install the version from the marketplace?
In other words you have a game with absolutely no mods at all.
If you still have CTD, you can try deleting the Sim and reinstalling.
Have you checked Reliability and Maintenance logs? This can show some faulting apps that maybe creating a conflict with the simulator causing you issues. So many services and background processes running these days. Half of them not needed to run MSFS but they are still loaded bogging down our systems.
I’ll give that a shot…thanks. I think the A32NX is available through the Marketplace, so not sure if it would be considered a default, but definitely worth a try. I’m sure a full reinstall will be next if that doesn’t provide some relief.
I installed Windows 10 without an internet connection to minimize the bloatware, so I’m not thinking there would be an issue there, but I will see what I can find in the logs. Thanks.
You said when you have a CTD, it reboots windows?
That doesn’t sound right, I have had CTD,s but it’s never crashed the OS
You said you installed windows without an internet connection
What version of windows are you running?
My advice is reset your pc and do a clean reinstall over an internet connection, update drivers then reinstall a vanilla MSFS
I know it’s a PITA but there’s something wrong with your Windows for that to crash too
It always CTD when i arriving near my destination. Last days every ■■■■ flight.
I had a really nasty one yesterday… after months of stable flight. It crashed my graphical drivers and Windows came back without color correction (for a moment I thought the PC was rebooting). Happened after 1.5 hours or so in the middle of a flight. Did nothing special.
In the logs I found VCRUNTIME140.DLL to be the cause. I’ve updated the distributables and hope for the best. Any such indication in your eventviewer?
In case of overclocking lower your GPU and/or CPU overclock.
For me it helped, no CTDs anymore
Sounds like a system issue, not MSFS.
Need more detailed info.
If you have any of the following:
Overlocked - Remove it
XMP enabled - Disable it
GPU riser/cable - Remove it
Performance Power Plan - use Balanced (recommended)
Make sure you use two PCIe power cables (not one daisy cable), monitor temps, research AIO and PSU reliability, perform all software/driver/BIOS updates, clear CMOS, reset BIOS to defaults, etc.
Re-seat all hardware and plugs while you are clearing CMOS.
Eventually you will track down the problem.
Sorry to hear about your problems with CTD!, the thing that helped for me was creating a page file in Windows, have you tried that?, you need to go into ‘advanced system settings’ and create a page file from there, I used to suffer from CTD’s pretty bad until I created a 32gig (I have 32 Gig of RAM) page file and that seemed to sort out my problems.
That might be worth a try.
Good luck with it.
Ste.
Try to activate shader cache in NVCP. It will reduce the CPU load.
I know what you’re speaking about.
Got a new PC i9-11900K /RTX 3080 and get
the system reboots twice a day.
Windows gives me Kernel power ID 41 errors, or
failing to create a dump file, or missing permissions for whatever…
I also wait for working tips. Could it be a too weak power unit? My PC got a 750 watts gold Power unit.
Help would be much appreciated.
Scotty
Definitely on your end.
“freezup with a buzzing sound”
Driver issues.
Go to eventviewer and see what’s tripping it.
The buzzing sound before the reboot is also everytime there.
I have an 850w power supply
Thanks so much for all the feedback. I’ll give all these suggestions a try and keep you posted.
I didn’t do any overclocking
When you built your system, did you use old Windows media to install Windows (if so, how old?) or did you start with a fresh windows.iso downloaded from Microsoft?
I couldn’t get past a number of problems until I rebuilt Windows using a fresh download of Windows.iso. There have been some 12 or so revisions of Windows install media and they don’t seem to build out into identical Windows installations. There seems to be baked-in differences that are interfering with FS2020 in some way. This could just be snake oil but this one thing caused me no end of trouble until I did a rebuild from a fresh .iso. A rebuild from my original USB stick that came in the box version of Windows didn’t fix things. So, maybe?
No idea what the root cause is but so far two have reported success with this. One did a repair using a fresh .iso and that fixed his issues, and another did a rebuild with a fresh .iso and that fixed his. And it fixed mine. But that’s all we’ve got. Your issue may or may not have anything to do with any of this, though.
Thanks. I initially installed it via the latest Microsoft .iso and have kept it current ever since.