My worst day ever in MSFS

[Gerwil 177]

9 minutes ago, Mikeingreen said:

No, Razer wired K/b and mouse. Flight controls are Honeycomb Alpha and Bravo, Saitek Pro Pedals, and TM TCA Sidekick Airbus.

 

7 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

 I have a logitech wireless mouse, but there is no software with it. It just transmits via a USB receiver. 

Ah okay, this doesn't apply to you both then. Good luck finding the culprit, which I also think is MSFS itself for the most part. A new GPU card won't make much of a difference Bobsk8, I'm afraid.

[Bobsk8 12,565]

3 minutes ago, Gerwil said:

 

Ah okay, this doesn't apply to you both then. Good luck finding the culprit, which I also think is MSFS itself for the most part. A new GPU card won't make much of a difference Bobsk8, I'm afraid.

Yes, I am not betting the farm on the GPU fixing anything, frankly. AMD has had driver issues for years. 

Edited May 6, 2021 by Bobsk8

[scotchegg 4,169]

1 hour ago, canuk22 said:

Yet there's people complaining with 3090s!!!

I’m guessing that’s more to do with MSFS’s engine optimization than Nvidia’s drivers, as everything else I play looks and performs amazingly with my 3090 (RDR2? Chef’s kiss)．

Not that Nvidia’s drivers are perfect by any means of course...

[Maxis 1,857]

1 hour ago, Mikeingreen said:

It's a 5800x on an X570 Asus board with a 6800XT and 32g of PC3600. I think I will pass on the sledgehammer for now 😉

The only ever time msfs ctd on me and it was a driver timeout i had overclocked the gpu past 2550 mhz and i had known that was my cards hard overclock limit because i had spent a few good hours pushing my card through timespy and heaven benchmarks to know exactly where i wasn't supposed to venture past. I got greedy and thought i may get away with it since (erroneously i thought the sim may be slightly less hard on the card.  Card operates flawlessly once i dialed back the OC.

5700xt cards are a different kettle of fish and their issues are well documented but 6800xt aren't supposed to give issues.

[Maxis 1,857]

15 minutes ago, scotchegg said:

I’m guessing that’s more to do with MSFS’s engine optimization than Nvidia’s drivers, as everything else I play looks and performs amazingly with my 3090 (RDR2? Chef’s kiss)．

Not that Nvidia’s drivers are perfect by any means of course...

They arent .. by any stretch of the imagination.. To me both of them are on the same level. No brand loyalty here. I just don't have these driver timeouts everyone else seem to have. The one time it happened i knew it was my fault and dialed it back.

[Mikeingreen 139]

I have only gotten the timeouts with the 6800xt, never with my old Vega64. 

[RandallR 444]

3 hours ago, Mikeingreen said:

but every time I took off from BIRK and engaged the AP (WTG3000 6.1) the plane just went into a diving spin. I then deleted the WTG3000 from Community and reinstalled it and now things seem to be back to normal. Could something have gotten screwed up in the WTG3000 file system in Community folder when things crashed yesterday? I find that weird if it did

This statement caught my eye. YES, some of us have been having issues with the latest WTg3000 v0.6.1 mod. It literally brought my flights to a crashing halt.  I finally removed it, deleted and recreated my rolling cache and reinstalled the WT v0.5.1 mod.  All the issues are gone and everything is smooth again - might be worth checking out in your case.

[Mikeingreen 139]

36 minutes ago, RandallR said:

This statement caught my eye. YES, some of us have been having issues with the latest WTg3000 v0.6.1 mod. It literally brought my flights to a crashing halt.  I finally removed it, deleted and recreated my rolling cache and reinstalled the WT v0.5.1 mod.  All the issues are gone and everything is smooth again - might be worth checking out in your case.

I had been using 6.1 since it came out with no issues until today and it was working fine after redoing it but who knows. I had to leave and go to my Grandson’s school concert and now headed back home. I am really interested to see if ATC comes back on another flight. I have no idea what happened there as I have never saw that happen before. 

[RandallR 444]

At least one person I was in conversation with reported that there is some connection btwn performance issues w 0.6.1 and flying in Europe and that WT was aware of it and working on it.  Here's what happened to me:

• I switched to 0.6.1 but didn't engage the chart feature - everything was fine for a couple of flights.
• I activated the charts feature as a Navigraph subscriber and started a new flight over Europe. Halfway through my flight, the sim basically crashed (1-2 FPS then locked up). I'd never had issues before.
• I had to use Task Manager to close the sim.
• I rebooted and tried again, this time in Central America.  Once again, everything went well for about half the flight, then it locked up.
• I then replaced the mod with a clean version of 0.6.1 (without the charts feature on) and did another flight in Europe - it locked up again.
• I cleaned everything out, reverted to the 0.5.1 version and everything has been OK since.

When I saw you had been running 0.6.1 I thought it worth mentioning.

[Mikeingreen 139]

Finally figured it all out. Tried the newest driver, released today, but back to the slideshow. Driver from March works fine, so back to that. But still had no ATC, but only in Europe it looks like. Thinking something got screwed up in the TBM files themselves, I deleted the TBM and let MSFS reinstall on the next load, but still no ATC. Next checked Navigraph Data to reinstall that and it had somehow uninstalled itself according to the installer. Reinstalled that and ATC is back. I am going to bed.

[gb09f 298]

Not saying problems are all hardware related, but I stick with a combination I know is stable: Gigabyte, Intel & Nvidia. 

On the software side, no 3rd party AV, no 3rd party software other than MSFS2020 and minimal add ons. Keep all drivers and Windows up to date. 

Performance is good and I've had one CTD since release (caused by Navigraph) 

Hope you get things sorted. 

[Gazzareth 808]

6 hours ago, RandallR said:

At least one person I was in conversation with reported that there is some connection btwn performance issues w 0.6.1 and flying in Europe and that WT was aware of it and working on it.  Here's what happened to me:

• I switched to 0.6.1 but didn't engage the chart feature - everything was fine for a couple of flights.
• I activated the charts feature as a Navigraph subscriber and started a new flight over Europe. Halfway through my flight, the sim basically crashed (1-2 FPS then locked up). I'd never had issues before.
• I had to use Task Manager to close the sim.
• I rebooted and tried again, this time in Central America.  Once again, everything went well for about half the flight, then it locked up.
• I then replaced the mod with a clean version of 0.6.1 (without the charts feature on) and did another flight in Europe - it locked up again.
• I cleaned everything out, reverted to the 0.5.1 version and everything has been OK since.

When I saw you had been running 0.6.1 I thought it worth mentioning.

That's 0.6.2 out now, so far no sign of the issue....

 

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[kt069 569]

MSFS is freezing and waiting too much at "Checking for Updates" screen 😞 😞 

[Tomaz Drnovsek 440]

I think the majority of "unusual issues" people have are down to one of two things - issues with the computer (unstable OC, driver problems, background apps, etc) or some mod or the combination of mods in Community folder.

[Mikeingreen 139]

20 minutes ago, Tomaz Drnovsek said:

I think the majority of "unusual issues" people have are down to one of two things - issues with the computer (unstable OC, driver problems, background apps, etc) or some mod or the combination of mods in Community folder.

I think the root of my problems was the Navigraph data deleting itself, whatever caused that. MSFS was trying to find that data and couldn't but kept looking. After putting that data back in the FP's loaded up instantly and with all the waypoints, ATC was back, and there was no lagging in the menus. I at first thought the AMD driver was causing it but now I am thinking it's not. Going to go back to the newer driver today to test that. 

So background apps may have been my culprit. Overclocking is not as my system is all running at stock clocks as all settings are on Auto. But it could also be another backgound app contributed as well with the WTG3000 6.1 Mod. It will be interesting to see what happens with their update. 

Edited May 7, 2021 by Mikeingreen