It’s really strange. I just completely roasted the performance of SU12 above, rightfully so, but then I suddenly had the most stable experience this evening flying from Manchester to Edinburgh (3rd party). No frame rate drops at all. I just don’t get it. It must be server related I guess. The sim is soo inconsistent. And soo enjoyable when it actually works.
loss of avionics approaching LEBL Yesterday, ( Lvfr Addon last updated ) then came back on final
photogrammetry on
all the flight was great.
maybe that’s a way for the sim to avoid ctd …
I was too early on the forgiveness. Another black screen event on approach, and then ctd at the gates. EPWA to EPKK (3rd party).
Xbox Series X. Cessna Longitude.
Never had even close to this many and frequent black screens.
Drzwiecki has always been very unstable? That’s why i avoid his bigger airports. I do have his smaller Poland airfields though.
But this black screen issue is getting a bit out of hand in my opinion. CTD’s has been eliminated(for the most part), but we get the black screens instead😐
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SU12 definitely has added some stability for me but the black screens occurred 3 times this morning before I could take off. About to try for the 4th time now. Leading me back here to complain. When I leave the sim to main menu so I can restart, I get a CTD to make things worse. Frustrating as hell.
Do very much doubt this has anything to do with memory or 3rd party airports now as @UnitedArt also mentioned. Had it happen as I landed at the stock Brussels airport the other day with no traffic or ground addons activated and it also happened at cruise level un-announced. Granted it is the LFVR A320-232 I am flying since SU12, so maybe the plane is causing it? But pretty sure it uses the same systems as the Asobo A320Neo.
Either way, something is really not working and needs to be Asobo’s first priority for Xbox. No point adding WASM, new sceneries and planes if we can’t get off the ground without losing screens and avionics. In a plane like the A320, there is no way to see your heading without the screens so I can’t even fly manually. Not to mention your flight plan is gone so you can’t navigate on the map. I think ATC just gives you your original take off heading when you request a vector too. So you are left with no choice but to fly on an unknown heading hoping they will turn on. But most of the time I just have to quit.
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Tried 2 more times with no luck. Making me hate the whole simulator.
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From where are you trying to depart from ( 3rd party or default), and in which aircraft?
My personal experience is that SU12 is now very stable for 95% of the time. Over the past week i flew exclusively with the LVFR A320 CEO ( a lot!), i had zero CTD’s and perhaps 2 cases of black screens , one of which was when departing from NZAA 3rd party. But that was after i did a pretty long drone tour across the entire airport. I’m pretty sure that when you just start cold@dark and don’t use the drone to go over the entire scenery, it’s fine.
And again, the black screens recovered after a few minutes getting further away from the scenery. It messed up my flight though, yes.
I do hope they are still collecting data ( i didn’t leave the beta), and that instances of black screens are still being recorded.
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Well, not all is good. Just had my first hard CTD on approach at EBBL. First black screens, couple of minutes later the CTD.
EBBL 3rd party, LVFR A320 CEO
I’ve just had CTD twice at TNCM while low level flying on my Kamov-10M. It is a 3rd party heli but it’s as simple as they come and really should be will within the capability of a series X. Yes TNCM is an addon but again it’s a very small airport, not exactly in the league of EGLL.
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I see you posted to my thread:
That might be the cause of the CTD — two handcrafted airports on top of one another.
Yes I thought about that afterwards.
HI
i use Mfs on xbox s
i have the same double signage problem for scenery but no ctd
I just want to add some experience here about black avionics.
I’ve been tried some black avionics when I’m closing to land. I’m in Brazil using the 3rd party SBRJ (always give me black avionics) preceded by huge stuttering. the game don’t CTD and the glass cockpit goes off and try to on till it no be possible and black avioinics in the end of the flight
note: I’m in XBOX X and flying Hondajet . I wasn’t experience it before the SU 12 goes live. it wass ok on the Beta.
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So loaded the A320CEO today and screens were black straight away 
Least I didn’t waste any time, and didn’t CTD when I went back to the menu like last night. So managed to get in and flying ok now.
So it was EGLL 3rd party. And its been the same for me, just fling the A320CEO. As soon as I did like 4 flights without an issue, I thought SU12 and the new plane were the answer. But the LVFR forums are reporting the issue now and seems like more people facing this issue today on here…
Which again, points more towards an issue with servers or something imo? For it to be so sporadic and that everyone starts experiencing the problem more at the same time. So frustrating.
Today they were black as soon as I loaded in the sim, was like what 
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This issue is ongoing. The increased reports of the black screen issue (myself included) comes at a very bad time, now that’s there a massive sale going on. Already spend $40 on airports the first day, now what.
My own opinion is that it’s too much for the Xbox to handle. I think it’s related to VRAM personally. Although obviously I could be very wrong, not being a developer or engineer, I know bits about computers here and there but I’m certainly no expert.
The primary reason I say this is that I have never encountered this issue on PC. Ever. And I got it frequently on Xbox.
Iirc, a PC GPU generally has it’s own dedicated amount of VRAM, whereas the XBOX uses VRAM from a shared pool. Anyone feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, there.
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My understanding is that this is also an issue for PC users, judging from post further up in this thread. Not sure though exactly how frequent it is on PC these days.
PC users, please let us know. Would be interesting to understand if this is an Xbox dominant problem right now.
I certainly have black screens issues on Series X, but luckily enough not that often during flight but rather after arrival at the gates when I’m checking the airport out with the drone cam.
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Must be related to memory as the Devs have referred to it that way.
Not sure it’s a can’t handle issue. Try running on a low spec PC that’s a very different experience. Lol.
If it were unable to handle game at all it would consistently stutter or crash. And it wouldn’t sometimes be ok. It runs smoothly mostly.
The black screens are a very particular issue.
Sometimes they resolve.
Sometimes they cause CTD.
But yes related to memory usage.
Edit:. I believe this issue won’t resolve until new consoles come out.
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The difference is that PC has separate vram, xbox shares it with main ram. It seems they haven’t got the code that balances this out right yet.
I’m sure it’s fixable, but Asobo also said the xbox OS misreports the available ram, which I’m sure is making it harder for them. I don’t know if the xbox is deliberately overcommitting ram and if it’s controllable, or if there’s just bugs in the OS that cause the incorrect reporting. Either way it might be a while before they get this working reliably.
If a new version of the console came out I’m sure it would still have this ram sharing arrangement so I’m far from convinced it would solve the problem. Not that there’s likely to be a new console any time soon.