Sim Frequently Freezes on Touchdown at Airports

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:
The sim freezes at the moment of touchdown, requiring killing the app in task manager.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?
No 3rd-Party or Community Addons (default installation) / Yes

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
Very frequently, but not always. I’ve had around 10 flights so far since the release of update v1.1.10.0 when this has happened, so approximately 50% of my flights freeze before they end.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:
I think this is going to be hard to repro, as it occurs irrespective of:

  • Which aircraft I fly
  • Which airport I land at (airports can be large - e.g. KLAS, or very small bush strips).
  • Time of day
  • Choice of weather

So I an unable to giving precise repro steps. I’m hoping additional reports added to this topic may narrow down the cause to a reproducible scenario for the test team.

Common denominators appear to be:

  1. Has only occurred since build v1.1.10.0 was released.
  2. Flight time at the time of the freeze is always greater than 1/2 hrs.
  3. This only happens when landing on airport runways, not when landing elsewhere outside of an airport perimeter.
  4. VRAM and RAM utilization is greater than 75%.
  5. Data is being streamed in at a rate greater than 100 Mbps.
  6. Framerates drop to below 10 FPS.

Note: the cause of this bug may be related to:
FPS performance - VRAM bug?

YOUR SETTINGS

What peripherals are you using, if relevant:
N/A

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
Developer Mode is Off / No changes

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?
N/A

[PC Only] Many issues may be due to an outdated graphics card. Please state your Graphics Card Driver Manufacturer (NVIDIA, Intel, AMD) and Version:
Intel Arc 770 (16GB, v32.0.101.6299 & v32.0.101.6314).

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
Build: v1.1.10.0
Hardware: i7-12700K (No overclocking or undervolting), 32 GB 5200 MHz DDR5 CL40.

Graphics Tab: Full Screen; HDR: Off; Resolution: 3840 x 2160; AA: TAA; Render scaling: 70; AMD FidelityFX: 100; VSync: Off; FRL: N/A; Dynamic FRT: Off

Global Rendering Quality.
TLOD: 400; OST Pre-Cache: Ultra.

The following are the highest settings used. Freezes can also occur at lower settings.
Disp. Map: On; Buildings: High; Trees, Plants, Rocks, Grass: Medium; OLD: 175; Clouds, Texture Res: Ultra; AF: 16x; TS: 2x2; Water: Medium; RayTracing: On; SM: 2048; TS: 1024; CS: High; WE, AO: Medium; CR: 256; RR: Medium; LS: Ultra; DoF, MB: Off, GCRR: High; CQ: Ultra; TAQ, AT, RT, ST: High; Fauna: Ultra.

Online Tab: Photogrammetry, Live Weather, Multiplayer - On, Aircraft - Real-Time Online, MP Servers - West USA & SE Asia were used at the time, Show MP proximity - On, Rolling Cache - On @ both16GB & 64GB, Bandwidth - Unlimited.

Flight configuration: Multiplayer: All Players. Traffic: Both Live & Off, Weather: Both Live & Preset.
MSFS Version: MS-Store, Premium Deluxe

MEDIA

Please add a screenshot or video of the issue occurring.
N/A

[END OF FIRST USER REPORT]


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• I have had the same issue multiple times in the last three days. All of mine were in career mode VIP missions with a CJ4. As the missions are long, and I don’t like to skip or speed them up too much, this results in hours lost at the very end, which is mega frustrating.

I have a high end NVideo graphics card which got a small driver upgrade in the same time frame. I just upgraded the driver to the most recent, rebooted and successfully flew a mission. However, I did it on mega-speed as it was the one I had just wasted three hours flying “properly”. I am now testing it on a 10 hour VIP flight, and now that I am in the air, I have it on 2 notches of acceleration. I will see if it works…

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