Hello everyone.
This is an unofficial list of references to CTD solutions with the purpose of collecting the most helpful solutions that are scattered in the forums or are found by users, as I would hate it if such valuable information got lost.
This topic is a Work In Progress and if this topic does not work out, or becomes irrelevant, it may be removed in the future.
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SOLUTION: Go to Options > General Options > Graphics > Change your Global Rendering settingsto Low > click Apply & Save. Change the graphics to Ultra or High again >click Apply & Save.
Unable to interact with cockpit
SOLUTION: Go to Options > General Options > Accessibility > change Cockpit Interaction mode to"Legacy".
CTD with FlyByWireâs A32NX free mod
SOLUTION: Go to your Profile > Content Manager > Search for FlyByWireâs A32NX in the searchbar. Once found, click it and press âDeleteâ to uninstall it. It will now show up as Uninstalled in yourContent Manager.
Crashing when flying with AI traffic:
SOLUTION: Set AI Traffic settings off by going to General > Traffic > Aircraft Traffic Type > OFF.
I was seeing a CTD on longer flights, almost exactly the same amount of time every flight.
For me, I was able to discover that my video card was getting thermally throttled (where the video card gets so hot it starts turning down the frequency of the GPU to cool off, the GPU cannot keep up with the graphics) and it would cause a CTD.
I needed to:
Open my computer
Remove the heatsink from my video card
Clean my heatsink, removing any dust/debris/cat hair
Replace the thermal paste with some âhigh qualityâ (definition varies from person to person) thermal paste â my previous thermal paste was completely hard and dried out
Put back on heatsink and close up computer
Then I was able to return to the game and no longer get thermally throttled. I havenât had a CTD since then.
Thanks to some members here I was able to fix my CTD. My external ssd that I was running my games off of needed to be reformatted after the su5 update from exFat to NTFS. It seems something changed with the update that caused CTD with the exFat format. I copied my files to my hdd and then formatted the ssd to NTFS and copied the files back over and boom CTD is gone. I have 5 flights so far no CTD at all and running 40fps on ultra settings with everything on including live traffic, weather and multiplayer. So far no issues.
I was getting random CTDs during loading, beginning of flight, middle of flight. Just all over the place. Downloaded OCCT and ran a few tests. PC would freeze on CPU and PSU test. MSFS was the only software that would crash. I do a lot of racing as well and not 1 title would crash. I decided to reset my bios back to default. I had a slight overclock and probably changed some other things I forgot about. Did 2 flights in VR about 5 hours total, not 1 CTD.
If you tinkered with your bios, might be a good idea to reset to default and test.
My impression is that Asobo, and any other company with similar issues, try to âblameâ something other than their product.
So, you will get a response from said company to try non-product things⊠Like, stop overclocking, remove other software, clean your cache, reinstall your operating system, unplug your toaster, check your car oil, call your mom, and everything else to see if that fixes the issues.
Doesnât matter that another product works just fine, and any issues appears only with said product.
This, MSFS 2020, reminds me of decades past how companies create next generation software products that push the limits of the hardware. Yes, mostly games, but yes, this drive developers to create the necessary components and consumers tend to acquire new hardware to achieve maximum results from the âgameââŠ
Anyway, some issues could actually be the hardware because MSFS has a very high demand for hardware.
I havenât played this for a while as Iâm busy playing Far Cry 6. Anyway, I was getting lots of CTDs and some scenarios I couldnât complete due to it. Anyway, I got an App called GPU Tweak III and ran it and selected the tab to run in silent mode now all my CTDs have gone now perhaps this is worth a try here. Also, my GPU fan is no longer revving up and down. GPU TWEAK III this is an Asus-free product and will work on any card Nvidia or AMD.
This is a known issue with Discord. See Richard Stallmanâs blog on the risks of running closed source software like Discord that tracks your processes and requires you to link yourself to a phone number.
Iâve played the sim over 1000 hrs in flight and tried so many things to eliminate âCTDsâ opened tickets, change drivers - removed, reinstalled - just about everything but I always had maybe 1 or two CTDs per evening session to make it seem ânormalâ to me.
Iâm now an entire week into playing 20+hour sessions while live streaming to be almost certain Discord, with all itâs audio and video features, overlays and hardware usage disabled - was the cause. I now use Discord in one of two ways - in a VM or in a sandboxed environment.
I am getting CTD randomly every time I use the thrustmaster airbus sidestick and throttle quadrant. Whenever I donât use this I donât get CTD. Why is this device causing CTD???
You might want to try deleting any profiles that you might have made for your sidestick and throttle quadrant using the preset manager, and revert to default.
I had continually CTD after SU6 that took me a month to solve and it was all caused by a throttle profile for my Warthog, that must have been corrupted somehow during that update.
Simple in the end but did it cause me some trouble.
Good luck.
My I experience with (as it seems) eliminating of CTDs.
I stabilized my RAM and since then (cca. two weeks from 4.12.2021) I had zero CTDs. Look into your system stability, RAM, GPU, CPU. Try not to OC if you are not 99,9% sure it is stable. Stable also means it does not cause any errors not only it doesnât crash your PC.
Hi, since SU7 thereâs a CTD issue related to the freelook mode. When in freelook using ânext pilot positionâ the sim crashes to desktop. My workaround is to save custom cameras for each camera I use and never touch the next/prev pilot position. Indeed I even cleared these inputs from my profiles to not accidentally hit them.
This may be a long shot. I have been playing Far Cry 6 and Halo Infinite (sorry guys I have not played FS for some time) and was getting CTDs with them. In Event Viewer, the error message was Display Driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered. After trying different drivers with no success I eventually took my graphics card out, gave it a clean where there wasnât much dust on it had only been in a year on a new build. Anyway, I plugged it in and connected the power cable from the card to the motherboard and my CTDs have gone, or if I do get one that error message isnât displayed. So it seems to me I may have had a bad connection either where the card connects to the PCIe slot or the power cable connectors. Iâm running an Intel i5 10600k CPU and an Asus GTX Strix 6 GB gaming card which I hope to upgrade to a 3060 or maybe a 3050 which is coming out at the end of the month.