After about 15-20 minutes of flying the systems just shuts down and reboots. Has happened now several times and only in FLIGHT. I have the newest drivers, I7 2600K, Nvidia GTX480, 16gb Ram. Any ideas would be appreciated.Bernd Jablonka

Same here, FSX running smooth with sliders at max, Flight crashing after 10 minutes of flight : first stutter then red color over the fields and shut down. i need to reboot by hand.Pierredu

I don't even get the red color, it just shuts down and reboots by itself. Very strangeBernd

i get the red areas too, then choppy for a bit, then crash. happens about 5-10 min after startup and happens everytime. pc is all up-todate. i've even tried on windowed and lower graphics... still crashes. Good job MS. Patch it please.

Sounds like a possible heat problem.You guys should post your OS, ram, cpu, OC if any, gpu to see if there is anything in common.

Sounds like a possible heat problem.You guys should post your OS, ram, cpu, OC if any, gpu to see if there is anything in common.

Win7 x6412 gb rami7 920 @ 2.67nvidia GTX 260all checked and no updates required for anythingDon't imagine it'd be a heat issue, this is the only game on my gaming pc that has an issue on any video setting. thx

Edited March 2, 201214 yr by Wilkz07

I had that problem with my Laptop setup; it started when I turned settings to MAX and VSync off. Went back to MED and VSync on an problem went away. Hope this helps some of you.

That is almost certainly a case of thermal shutdown. Keep in mind that Flight offloads most of the "grunt work" to your video card's processor. If it's being overwhelmed, it will trigger a thermal shutdown.

turned off vsync, lowered to medium and i was able to complete the first landing tutorial after the wedding boat... then crash. not impressed, but glad this was a freebie... glad i didn't get the dlc on day-1 too

That is almost certainly a case of thermal shutdown. Keep in mind that Flight offloads most of the "grunt work" to your video card's processor. If it's being overwhelmed, it will trigger a thermal shutdown.

how to correct this?

Edited March 2, 201214 yr by Wilkz07

turned off vsync, lowered to medium and i was able to complete the first landing tutorial after the wedding boat... then crash. not impressed, but glad this was a freebie... glad i didn't get the dlc on day-1 toohow to correct this?

Your video card seems fine.To test, set setting to LOW, and then work up from there.Download GPU-Z and check temps, ussage, etc.http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

Edited March 2, 201214 yr by Kabronicus

Game crashed for me just now, though not completely. During the Stearman intro checklist there was a crash sound, a brief loading screen, and an external view showing two Stearman's fused together. Otherwise it had been running fine on High settings on a Dell laptop.

Game crashed for me just now, though not completely. During the Stearman intro checklist there was a crash sound, a brief loading screen, and an external view showing two Stearman's fused together. Otherwise it had been running fine on High settings on a Dell laptop.

Where you in multiplayer?Other 2 guys crashing, That might be a cause.

Edited March 2, 201214 yr by Kabronicus

Not multiplayer, no. I had just chosen the Stearman intro from the mission select screen. Don't know what happened, but I will try that same one again a bit later today.

The smaller the case and the higher the Flight detail settings, the more problem it is to get rid of heat generated by the cpu and the gpu, both of which are used more in Flight than FSX.Laptops are most susceptible to overheating, so if you are on a laptop, you will need to set detail lower to reduce the load on your hardware. If you have a case, there are other options - check in at the Hardware Forum.

just playing in single player on desktop that can run everything else in high video. turned vsync off and tried on low - crashed again after 5 min. giving up until patch released.