August 3, 20214 yr tl;dr: Check that the drive that you have the sim installed to is formatted in NTFS and not exFAT. Hardware Specs for reference: Laptop CPU: Intel i7-10750H 2.60GHz GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 RAM: 16GB DDR4 Memory Game Version: Steam Install location: 2TB external SSD ========== Like a number of you. I have been experiencing CTDs post-SU5 even after the hotfix. Unlike most of those, I could not even play the sim. Try to do a tutorial? CTD. Try to do a discovery or bush flight? CTD. Try to do a landing challenge? CTD. If I go into the World Map it would either CTD while I was making a flight or after I clicked "Fly" it would lock up for a few seconds and then CTD. I tried everything: full reinstall. Turning off all online features (weather, ai traffic, players, etc.). Deleted and reloaded the RollingCache. Checked that my drivers were up-to-date. Every little thing that worked for someone else would not work for me. Until I thought of something. You see, while the sim was installed on an SSD that had plenty of space free, I had the drive formatted in exFAT (I was playing Need for Speed Heat and Star Wars Battlefront 2 at the time and in order to mod those games the drive that they are installed on needed to be formatted in exFAT). I was lucky enough that I had a spare SSD that I wasn't really using that much. So, I grabbed that one and formatted it to NTFS (this one was also in exFAT for some reason). With that done I reinstalled everything MFS2020 related to that drive. It is the only game that is in the SteamLibrary folder on that drive. I made a new folder in the drive for the packages to be installed to. Once it was done installing - left it going overnight - I deleted the RollingCache and let it reload to a custom folder on that drive as well. Then, I went the world map and loaded a flight in a Cessna 152 departing from my local regional airport - a tiny airport with a single runway that only one airline goes to IRL - that I knew would be essentially empty. I clicked "Fly" and holy word not allowed! It works! The game actually works! I was able to load in, start up the aircraft, and I did a couple of patterns before landing and coming here to type this out.
August 4, 20214 yr Apparently exfat doesn't journal or repair file structure in the same automagical way ntfs does, and therefore tends to be more prone to needing "a scan" to fix and be able to write to it, sometimes at at all, and sometimes just particular folders (but can still be read) I wonder if msfs couldn't write to a particular folder, causing the ctd, and your exfat drives just needed a scan to repair the write access? anyway - awesome that it's now working 🙂 Edited August 4, 20214 yr by dogmanbird
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