Xbox/PC screens go black then CTD

Martial presented the crash data on the last dev livestream. It was a lot of info and all of it was interesting.

They fixed a could of xbox CTD bugs with SU12 and he showed that over 75% of remaining xbox CTD were various out of memory conditions.

It’s an extremely complex system, they are trying to fix it but it’s not quick clearly.

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And again, Düsseldorf to Palma de Mallorca (both Justsim) ended up with black screens on short final then CTD. It’s depressing!

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For sure! I’ve stopped flying the A310 for now, just too unreliable.

Instead I’m flying the vision jet everywhere. It’s fantastic, it has 5 screens, I’ve been flying it for many hours and they’ve not gone black once! No CTD either, if only all of the planes were this reliable. Just heading to Miami from Orlando, hopefully I’ve not jinxed it, first time at LVFR KMIA.

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LVFR A320 CEO’s aren’t much better when it comes to stability…

I’m sorry, just having a s*** day. 2 flights ruined.

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I haven’t flown the A320 since before the A310 came out. I like more working buttons to play with. :grin:

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Well, I hope PMDG test theirs with addons because otherwise a lot of people will be getting very frustrated. Talking about buttons to play with😉

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Not much help to those having issues. No new tips to share. Other than just a strange oddity..

I get issues with the A320 with no add-on airports even. Get black avionics every few flights.

Switched it up to the King Air for a change. Stock one available in sim. t’s full of Avionics screens and I get no issues at all. Even done a few long multiple airport flight.

Never had 10 problem free flights before.

Tried TBM and boom black screens again.

How can some flight’s with some airplane have no issues yet others on same day,. Same setting’s fail.

The old style instruments have no issues. Yet surely they are rendered same way. Some have quite a bit of detail on them that would impact memory.

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I just said same thing I was flying King Air problem free. I own Honda Vision Jet will give it a go.

I’m not surprised the Devs are struggling to fix it. It’s a weird issue.

Cirrus Vision Jet, the Honda Jet is a different thing, although maybe that is fine too.

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People on pc aren’t affected by this issue anymore?

Black screen? Never. Crashes? Rarely, but it does happen, but probably for different reasons.

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Please report back how that performs. It looks amazing. Didn’t see that appear in marketplace. Love the Vision Jet now I want it too.

The King Air 350 seems bullet proof. Flown loads of times without issue. Form cold and dark and even added the Flight Plan manually. Not a single stutter or black screen event and no CTD in 20 flights.

Not going to touch A310 or 320 again. Lol.

Right, now i even had a CTD in the middle of my flight. 3 hours in. Boom,just like that back at my Xbox home screen.

Pretty ridiculous if you ask me. I really don’t want to post this every single time, but I do it anyway in the hope that “they”, whoever that might be, read it. I wish I had more positive experiences, but unfortunately I don’t.

Honest question: is this Simulator on Xbox suitable for people who like to fly real airline operations? 2,3,5, even 9 hours flights? Who like the immersion of departing and arriving at beautiful 3rd party airports? Fly with live traffic and whether etc? I have my doubts. Look at this thread, the A310 thread etc. For how long is this issue ongoing. Still, after 2 years, I have doubts of purchasing airports, always the fear I end up with black screens or CTD’s. This can’t be right.

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Nope blackscreen too on Honda jet

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Im with even contemplating if to sell up xbox,honeycomb alpha+bravo. Shame really

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Do you have add-on airports installed?

Uninstalling seemed to reduce the incidence. Definitely I’d say 3rd party content particularly airports made it worse for me on Xbox.

As said earlier had a positive experience with the King Air screens and systems to date.

I wouldn’t give up, just try some GA for a while in-between giving tubes a go again.

After hearing Sebastian and Martial in the recent Q&A it is along with CTD something they’re working on still actively. Which is reassuring.

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@UnitedArt I’m right there with you, my friend. Spoken from my soul. 2 years have gone into the country. quite a long time of suffering. especially if you consider that many problems have not been fixed since the beginning, although known or with each new update have come back into the game.

Here is a good example of what the community has done for efforts and then gave up.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/longterm-for-xbox/480440/612

And look where we are now in terms of CTD and Black Avionics. Not really any further. You can hold up as many pie charts as you want to the camera. They should have had this data for months/years. Instead of taking care of the problems, only more content was blown into the game. Content which is not/ could not be tested properly. Even the products from their own software forge don’t work properly. Of course I can stand up and say that I only provide a distribution platform and I don’t care about the rest. But if I don’t provide the right framework to ensure that the content works for all users, I have a share of responsibility. I believe that some problems are being worked on. But if you look at the timeline, it just takes too long. Which can only mean that the team is not qualified enough or the architecture of the game has not been thought through. My 2 cents… but what do I know.

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I’m willing to spend much money for 3rd party content, at least it should work.
And i think mfs could not life without this transactions on the marketplace? (Like all the other online games and thats ok but it should work without giving us headache.)

Most of us are using 3rd party airports because they are super realistic.
And the reason why i’m gaming are only the airliners (Airbus), so changing to GA is no option for me.
This problem is exisiting for a long time now and it got worse with su12 (my opinion)

Flying for 2-4 hours without issues and getting black screens on final doesn’t make much fun, sometimes followed by stutters (sometimes heavy) and a ctd while shutting down engines.

Please don’t get me wrong, i started with FS2000 and i’m grateful for mfs2020 but this issues are the reason why some of us are suffering.

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absolutely agree with you.

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Yes, i’m this close to give up on it.

Everytime, you think they sort things out. I had a great experience during SU12 beta’s, only to be back at crackling sounds during loading, black screens and CTD’s with the final release. How is this possible? Why is there such a difference all of a sudden? This repeats itself over and over again.

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