Instant CTD after XBOX and Gaming Services update today

[EDDB2020 35]

Anyone?

Played yesterday with the latest NVIDIA driver 457.09, no problems at all.

It seems there is some connection to the latest updates for XBOX and the Gaming Services (from the official forums):

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I rolled back my windows and deactivated automatic updates in MS Store.
Stopping the Xbox Gameing Service Update to install.
and now i can start the sim again.
so the XBOX Gaming service update broke the sim.

Full thread here:

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/simulator-doesnt-start-anymore-at-all/314155

[Alvega 2,124]

Yeah, just posted about it at the same time, lol. Updated Xbox app and now the sim crashes when loading.

[EDDB2020 35]

Just saw that in the official forums - turn off the windows defender real time protection, yes, works for me.

[JSmith2112 317]

Thanks turning off defender worked.

[TENPATROL 138]

On 11/3/2020 at 8:34 PM, EDDB2020 said:

Just saw that in the official forums - turn off the windows defender real time protection, yes, works for me.

 

On 11/3/2020 at 8:39 PM, JSmith2112 said:

Thanks turning off defender worked.

Now you can play with windows defender and real-time protection - on.

How to.
In windows seacrh bar type
powershell

right click on powershell and select run as administrator

Copy/paste to powershell window

Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess “C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.10.8.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\flightsimulator.exe”

(right click to paste into powershell window)

and press enter

Run MSFS.

 

source https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/simulator-doesnt-start-anymore-at-all/314155/247?u=tenpatrol

Edited November 5, 2020 by _Patrol

[turbomax 3,285]

much simpler procedure: simply add an exception process in Windows Defender and simply enter "flightsimulator.exe" . thats all. Defender Realtime protection can be left active.

[smoothchat 99]

Unfortunately, some people report that this still doesn't work for them.

I am confident that the problem is caused by a mandatory “gaming services” update.

The update replaces version 10.0.19041. 4332 with version 10.0.19041. 4271 and the sim won’t load.

I restored an older backup of my OS drive (C:) and on bootup, I quickly paused MSStore from updating the gaming services app.

With automatic updates disabled in MStore, the Gaming Services update now waits for me to manually update (which I will not do until they fix the problem).

I have passed this info on to the ZenDesk.

[turbomax 3,285]

well done!

everything running smoothly again, after adding flightsimulator.exe as an exception in Windows Defender. had nothing to do with Asobo, for a change. They were only affected.

next time I started Flightsimulator the Windows Firewall came up.(I think that changes to Gaming service and Xbox app triggered the Firewall). I granted Flightsimulator.exe access for private networks through the Firewall and everything is back to normal, now its Asobo's turn to crash something again 🙂

 

[PeterKoller 8]

after excluding flighsimulator.exe in the defender it works for me. but before I uninstalled the FS2020 and rebuilt Windows 10 and downloaded FS2020 again, but didnt work.
But after the defender exclusion of flightsimulator.exe it worked again.

[turbomax 3,285]

the solution was already posted just minutes after the crash occured on forums.flightsimulator.com but re-format and re-partition Drive C  is always a good idea when Flightsimulator doesn't start 😊

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/simulator-doesnt-start-anymore-at-all/314155

even better idea: Microsoft Forum admin posts an alert, informing everybody of the issue and describe the solution. why don't they?

Edited November 5, 2020 by turbomax