MSFS sometimes randomly hangs while loading at times

[pstrub 998]

This has happened to me a couple of pre-WU6, but I don't think I've seen it in the past month or so. Anyway, as others pointed out, there's clearly an issue and apparently it's going to be fixed in SU6.

However, one thing to keep in mind: Loading a complex add-on aircraft for the first time can take very long, more than 5 minutes in some cases. Happened on the first flight with the CRJ 550 and 700 each  (as cautioned by Aerosoft), and with the FBW A320 it happens every time I install an updated version. As I'm on the development branch, this means it's pretty much every day.

So if this is the reason for long loading times, please be patient 😉 I don't think this is what you're experiencing, but others reading this thread might think of killing the MSFS task when it's actually performing normally.

[Adamski_NZ 948]

Thanks for putting up that link! It points to another link, which I think may be worth posting here:

https://devsupport.flightsimulator.com/questions/2196/sim-freezes-when-loading-around-60-with-3rd-party.html?page=3&pageSize=10&sort=oldest

No clear solution there, that I could see ... so we wait for SU6 and hope!!

[Lord Farringdon 477]

I get it semi regularly too.  After killing the process with task manager a few times I realised I just needed to wait...and wait.....and wait......Eventually it lights up again.  Hope they fix it in SU6 but yes, please be patient because using task manager to kill a half cooked process does come with some risks at the next startup. 

 

 

Terry

Edited October 14, 2021 by Lord Farringdon

[fppilot 4,351]

2 hours ago, Lord Farringdon said:

Hope they fix it in SU6 but yes, please be patient because using task manager to kill a half cooked process does come with some risks at the next startup. 

+1^{2 (agree)}

Edited October 14, 2021 by fppilot

[Republic3D 1,229]

I have gotten it in the past after I've updated my graphics driver. A clean graphics driver install fixes it for me. 

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

8 hours ago, Lord Farringdon said:

I get it semi regularly too.  After killing the process with task manager a few times I realised I just needed to wait...and wait.....and wait......Eventually it lights up again.  Hope they fix it in SU6 but yes, please be patient because using task manager to kill a half cooked process does come with some risks at the next startup. 

 

 

Terry

Have you seen the process come back, after the Task Manager reported the process as "unresponsive"?

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

12 hours ago, Adamski_NZ said:

No clear solution there, that I could see ... so we wait for SU6 and hope!!

Agreed.. there does seem to be a pattern of loading problems at an airport near a "Cityscape" addon..

I have seen this at London City and La Guardia airports, with Orbx cityscapes active.

Starting at an airport a bit further away works, it would appear, but the fact that sometimes a second attempt is successful throws off all troubleshooting scenarios.. You might rename the Community folder and then it works..  Question: Would it have worked without renaming the Community folder?  😉

[captain420 3,099]

Whatever the issue behind it may be. I am really hoping that SU6 will squash this issue. It's really annoying to have to open task manager, kill the unresponsive process, and reload the sim up again as a walk around. That's around 5+ minutes just to get the sim to load up completely.

[Lord Farringdon 477]

2 hours ago, Bert Pieke said:

Have you seen the process come back, after the Task Manager reported the process as "unresponsive"?

No. I cant ever recall seeing 'unresponsive' which in itself would suggest it was still processing. But lack of patience and a feeling that something was still wrong led me to kill the process anyway.  If it's going to CTD it usually does that without too much waiting, so if I am having to wait I accept now that it is still processing and it  will eventually start. 

I did open the task manager one time and no sooner had I done that than the program loaded. I thought maybe opening the task manager may have been a work around to trigger a response but could never replicate it so I guess it was just a coincidental timing thing.  

[Stoopy 1,571]

During one of my tests I waited half an hour before killing FlightSimulator.exe with the task manager.  On my system when it hangs and Task Manager says it is "Not Responding", it means it. 

 

[Stoopy 1,571]

1 hour ago, captain420 said:

Whatever the issue behind it may be. I am really hoping that SU6 will squash this issue. It's really annoying to have to open task manager, kill the unresponsive process, and reload the sim up again as a walk around. That's around 5+ minutes just to get the sim to load up completely.

You could always try the Process Monitor workaround, I swear it works 100% for me and once you get it set up, only takes a couple of seconds.  I am much less frustrated these days.

What worries me just a little is that in reading the release notes for the WU6 Beta, there is no mention of fixing this, at least directly. But that doesn't always mean much.

 

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

4 minutes ago, Stoopy said:

What worries me just a little is that in reading the release notes for the WU6 Beta, there is no mention of fixing this, at least directly.

Assume you are referring to the upcoming SU6  😉 

[Stoopy 1,571]

1 minute ago, Bert Pieke said:

Assume you are referring to the upcoming SU6  😉 

D'oh!  Yeah, that's what I meant.  Been a long day!  😄