Hello, I have an Xbox series X. I have many add ons from the marketplace. I also am on the current most recent update of the sim. However, the past days I’ve experienced more crashes than usual. These occur upon loading into an airport and I have to restart the sim all over again to usually a success.
Examples: a321 neo and kphx
737-800 pmdg , Newark and nyc - Drzweicki
Any ideas?
The only thing I can think of is deleting the add ons and retrying the flights and seeing if it’s still crashing. Then you can at least narrow it down to a problem with the sim or a problem with the add ons.
My understanding (very possibly wrong given how complex things tend to be) is that the sim works hard to manage the limited pool of memory the XBOX has (and has to share between GPU and CPU) depending on what you’re doing. But if you install add-on scenery or airports, the sim won’t decrease the quality of those because you paid money for those. So if the developer didn’t optimize correctly or made an airport that was simply too heavy on memory, the sim will just crash. It can try to reduce memory load in other ways, but it can’t make memory out of thin air.
Especially on XBOX it is very important to seek out reviews of airports before you buy them to make sure they work. Combine a complex airport with a complex plane and at some point the system will just give up. And as the game is being updated all the time, there’s no guarantee that something that worked for a period of time will work indefinitely.
I have a lot of airplane add-ons but no airport add-ons. I’ve been playing daily for two years and can’t remember a sim crash.
Like FL991R said, this is likely due to just overloading the console with added content and pushing it near it’s limits. You also want to make sure that any other games or apps are not running or in quick resume mode on the unit. If in doubt, press and hold your console power button for ~10 seconds to hard reboot the unit. If the problems continue, then try uninstalling some DLC content (including world update DLC) a few at a time until you get to a point of good stability.
Good news though! Sim Update 15 will address a lot of these issues not only on console, but also on PC. Check out the latest developer’s Q&A for more information from about 25:00 until 36:00.
Great. Looking forward to that update
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