10 minutes ago, odourboy said:

Sorry.. online traffic not allowed? 

It's one of the many, many suggested "This is what I did to fix it!" recommendations being made.  But even the developers at FBW say it only "might" work.  So you can try it, but there are no guarantees.  Nor ANY reason or evidence to think of it as the online traffic actually being an across-the-board problem for everybody.

56 minutes ago, odourboy said:

Sorry.. online traffic not allowed? 

Well not with the FBW, I had to disable it.  But I'm now flying the CRJ I have it back on and it works ok with no CTD

I've been flying with live traffic and the FBW Neo fine with no crashing.

I did do the fresh file trick mentioned last page though.

The only crash I get, as I mentioned before, is the one that happens if the A320 isn't the aircraft that that you already have selected when the sim launches.

Edited August 3, 20214 yr by Tuskin38

1 hour ago, Tuskin38 said:

I've been flying with live traffic and the FBW Neo fine with no crashing.

Same. Works fine here

2 hours ago, Richard Sennett said:

Wow this just goes to show what a mess Asobo has created - think stock A320 is in my future for quite a while - sim crashes just looking at it now 

It's not that bad, as far as "temp fixes" are concerned.  For all I know I may have exasperated my original problem when I decided to totally delete the "do the clean install" folder thing.  I kinda think no one even at FBW knew that if somebody did that, the Installer wouldn't recreate the missing folder (after the SU5 update, quite possibly).  Why else would they have recommended to only delete the files starting with the letter "m" and not the Work Folder, yet still say "it's your choice if you want to delete the Work folder or not"?

There are just so many different people having what are obviously different reasons why they can't get the a320 to load without a CTD now.  Some find the solution to be a simple livery.  Some, like me, will end up pulling half their hair out in frustration trying to "fix" it, which didn't happen until I found what I posted above in a COMBINATION of 2 different posts on 2 different forums (one of them the developers forum).  I had to recreate the missing folder, then reinstall the a320, then load the new reinstalled a320 for the first time using the default Cessna first then the Developer Mode "load an aircraft" thing.  Since then it's all been fine for me as long as I remember to keep the a320 as the "default load" aircraft displayed in my flight sim aircraft selection screen. 

The real scary part of all of this is that even though MS/Asobo on one hand has allowed third-party developers to use the SDK to create addons, they still have a death grip on "proprietary encrypted files" that they obviously have no intention of ever letting "outsiders" use for addon development (like a weather addon).  The days of anybody being able to use an SDK to create ALL kinds of addons for MSFS (like we could for FSX or P3D) have ended.  I can understand that from the viewpoint of preventing a 3rd party developer from creating a "monster addon" that if added to the XBox platform might sink the whole performance of the XBox sim.  But it also raises the reasonable question of, "What if I buy lots of addons for lots of money now for my PC, but NOT from the Marketplace?"  And MS eventually gets PO'd about that? (for whatever reason).  And in a future update they change the internal structure (encrypt MORE files?) to make those addons not work anymore, with no possible way for the developer to update them? I've lost all of that monetary investment in the sim then. 

And please don't say, "They would never do that."  Over my 45 years of doing professional IT, MS has (eventually...for whatever reason they had) cancelled support for Windows versions more times than I care to remember...along with a couple "New and Improved Flight Simulators" (cough cough).  Marketing strategies are aimed at making people believe "The Customer Comes First", but in reality it is always, "Profits come first, so long as we can keep the Customers believing they come first."  And that's not a conspiracy theory.  It's "Business For Profit 101"

Been doing flight sims for almost 40 years.  Not the first time I've wanted to beat my head against the wall out of frustration.  Won't be the last time either.  

Edited August 3, 20214 yr by FalconAF