I play (if it works) on the X-Box Series X. It’s driving me crazy. Errors with addon airports are getting worse from update to update. The mouse when creating a flight plan is playing more and more crazy. I really have no idea what they’re doing there. If Windows and Office were as poorly programmed as this game on the X-Box, Microsoft would have had no chance of surviving.
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Series S, was such a wonderful flight and then such a sickening and demoralising black screen and CTD at 300ft above runway from landing.
Watch from time 1:16:20
Seems the mystery 7Gb upgrade has totally destabilised the sim once again. Would have flown again this weekend but haven’t bothered since.
So demoralising to even bother when you have a high risk of non-closure for your trips.
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Thats nothing compared to the flight i had it happening in. Had just touchdown on the runway and bang a CTD after a 7hrs and 36 min flight. Funny thing is it logged the hours in logbook where in the past that has been lost.
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What route was that, transatlantic?
Seems to be the high quality airports and photogrammetry areas that tilt the balance.
The route was trans atlantic. It was from EGPF( 3 party addon) to TNCM. Have never had an issue with EGPF as being an add on. I wldnt class either as having loads of scenery about.
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Playing on series x took of from Heathrow lovely flight no problems as soon as I landed in Athens frame rate drops then CTD hame is so infuriating at times
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Going in reverse, Heathrow arrivals for me haven’t CTD’d but many times ATC stop talking.
There has been much talk of a memory leak, but I’m curious about the Series S having a cooling fan that seems very slow always. Could probably grill toast over the air vent if flying a “beautiful view arrival” into a major airport with the A320Neo, especially during the daytime when the GPU is working hard😒
Miami rwy12 ILS from the North has been abysmal.
Could these CTDs be overheat protection?
Unlikely mate, the Series S in reality doesn’t get hot enough. The cooling system is excellent. The memory leak theory is most likely, IMO.
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Well looks like this isn’t going away anytime soon. On the S versus X thing. Most of the X extra grunt is for 4K output. So it isn’t a case of the S being too weak. That’s a simplistic statement.
Avionics going black It’s a bug plain an simple. Memory leak is a catch-all term it’s very unspecific akin to they don’t know the cause.
It’s a case of resources at Asobo having to prioritize what to fix or work on. This must be a small part of the community being impacted.
Hence they’re ignoring us.
Even when asking at Q&A’s.
It’ll get fixed eventually 
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I feel you I don’t understand why they don’t have any ideas for Xbox bugs
Thanks for sharing this video. The ending of the video sums it up perfectly. Every time I’ve had a black screen CTD it almost always happens 300ft above the runway on final approach. It’s just so frustrating that this keeps happening on Xbox with no solution in sight. It’s not motivating at all to spend hours creating a flight plan and flying a multi-hour airline trip to only have it CTD on you during the best phase of the flight.
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True. Considering the capabilities of these consoles I don’t think running 1080p is asking too much of the hardware.
I thought the memory leak was fixed though? 
Everything was working well until the mystery update.
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I really could not understand it anymore 
During SU8 Beta I made several flight approx. 2-3h and had not really big issues. After official release of SU8 I had sometime the known Black Screen bug ( almost when there is a handcrafted ap involved).
Since the last update Black Screens ( on Final) at almost every flight which are longer than 2h (like we had with SU5) , 70% - 80% followed by CTD even on Standard AP.
I think it is time MSFS Team (who ever) stops ignoring us and give us some info what we can expect and when.
Fore now I am done with the sim - it makes simply no fun anymore. I am stuck at 450h in log because most of the flights simply not logged anymore - yesterday I spend more than 6h with the sim even no ONE 
successfull Flight.
If we can trust what they say every Q&A session „we read all and listen to all“ I really hope they will came up with some information about this in the next Q&A. Maybe the Community Manager could keep this in mind an raise this Topic during the next session
In the meantime I wish you all the best and happy flying - ähhhm crashing 
I don’t think it’s SU8. It’s that update that came after it. Check you sim version it’ll say 1.23.13 but in the sim it still says 1.23.12 we’ve yet to get any explanation as to why.
I gave it up. I just get angry. I no longer fly in europe, rather in Asia, I have no problems there, probably because of the textures.
I have been testing a bit and i found something with live weather. A lot of you have been turning off live weather. That works great with better performance however you don’t have to turn it off. The trick is to not use live TIME. If you put in a time 1h - 2h back somehow you still have great performance and no black screens. I’ve done about 30 flights (1 or 2 hours) in Europe (default and payware) and only one CTD. That was at the payware gatwick scenery which has very low performance. So just to be safe i turn live weather of at such airports, and it works.
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Hi all!
First of all please excuse my english, it’s not my main language.
There are over 1800 comments right now and even if I read many of them, I haven’t read them all, so maybe someone already wrote this.
I just registered to this forum to reply to this post specifically, because maybe I found a momentary SOLUTION for the black avionics, until a patch hopefully comes in (however it’s only for that problem and not for CTD).
I need to start specifying a few things:
I play on xbox series X;
I never had issues with vanilla aircraft, but I only fly small ones, so I don’t know if it would happen to me if I’d fly liners;
Black avionics happened to me only on the Daher Kokiad 100 from the marketplace.
So, the solution.
I started a new flight (with real time and weather) and I had black avionics (G1000 nxi). The first thing I noticed was I could see them normally during the active pause, but they went back to black after deactivating it. So I tried a few things and I discovered that when I changed the time of day, from night to morning they were working again! But changing the time of day to real again (from morning to night) made them black.
I discovered the problem for me (you guys need to test this) was the brightness setting of PFD and MFD: if it bugs out all avionics turn black under a certain bright level that should normally work fine, for me it was 59% - below that level, even 58% made them black, above was just fine.
So the solution for me when I had black avionics was to change time of day untill I saw them working normally (because with day light, the auto setting chose a level above 59%), then change the brightness setting from auto to manual and go back to real time of the day. It worked twice already.
I could keep the manual setting, but most of the times it works with not bug and I like auto setting, I can always solve it on the go if it happens.
Has anyone already tested this?
Please note that sometimes I have a black texture on the MFD map, but it’s a different bug I think. In that case I can see everything on the MFD but the terrain. I have no solution for that.
If this is a real solution it may have a few exceptions: how many avionics types have switchable setting for auto or manual brightness level? If an aircraft only has auto setting, you can’t manually fix it. Maybe you can only try to make the day brighter. And this introduce a second limit to this method: if you play live you can’t change time of the day.
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I’ve noticed that too. As a workaround, most uninstall the NXi.
Hi mate are you using live weather if you are dont use the other weather types and see if that’s better that is what solved it last time this happened hope this helps
Are you suggesting changing the weather stops the avionics from blanking?