August 12, 201312 yr Tangolima, did you check the Event Viewer? Maybe it tells you what is causing the problem. Alvega CPU: AMD 7800X3D | COOLER: Cooler Master MasterLiquid 240L Core ARGB | GPU: RTX 4070 TI Super 16GB OC | Mobo: ASUS TUF GAMING X670E-PLUS WIFI |RAM: 32 GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5 6000MHz PC5-48000 2x16GB CL36 | SSDs: WD Black SN770 2TB NVMe SSD (WIN11), WD Black SN850X SSD 2 TB M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 NVMe (MSFS), Crucial MX500 2TB (Other stuff) | CASE: Forgeon Arcanite ARGB Mesh Tower ATX White | Power Supply: Forgeon Bolt PSU 850W 80+ Gold Full Modular White
August 12, 201312 yr Never ever allow Microsoft "update" to install any type of driver on your system. The video driver as suggested is the most likely cause. Let's hope you can get it resolved with out having to reload your OS. Follow OldMaintChief's advice and start with your video driver.. I've seen this before and unfortunately I gave up and reloaded an entire system from a image archive to recover (was quicker). Do you have any form of backup? I would never use System restore (that's just me) and in fact have it turned off :rolleyes: . One thing I do now, is install all updates manually using Microsoft Update Catalog. But I'm rather OCD when it comes to computer backup and change control. Good luck. RJ
August 13, 201312 yr Never let update change a driver as it just overwrites some of the files. The correct way is as stated above (Uninstall/install). I would try it before wipe. I have had FSX on four computers and never had to re-install. Never had a CTD (that I didn't cause) or OOM. So, it can be done! Dave
August 13, 201312 yr Do you have SweetFX installed or any other bloom type mod? If so reinstall it. I had the same problem recently and somehow SweetFX was the problem. I think maybe something had changed in the cfg file after a GFX driver update that made FSX crash.
August 13, 201312 yr Author I've reinstalled. I have reached the conclusion that the problem was due to the video driver, although I also think there were possibly other factors: Before I reinstalled I installed the latest video driver from Nvidia. FSX would not start it still had fatal error. Then I reinstalled FSX FSX started, got to the initial screen (so further than before) but the part where the plane rotates was black and pressing 'fly now' resulted in FSX closing down. So I rolled the video driver back. Then FSX worked. The upside is that I have now installed FSX into its own folder rather letting it go into the default X86 folder. For some reason before, it had spread itself out into several different folders. I have applied Bojotes config tweaks and FSX is now running very well, very smooth and good frame rates running over three monitors with TH2go. My system isn't top drawer either: Q6600 (overclocked to 3.2) Nvidia 8800 GT Win7 64bit Moral? update with caution and never ever change your video driver unless you are sure its ok, and never from MS!
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