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MSFS suddenly hanging

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I have never had this problem before today. I can successfully get to the home screen. But then whatever I try to do next hangs the whole sim and I can't recover without rebooting my entire system. I have tried with no Community Folder, I have tried in Safe Mode, I have tried turning off Online Functionality. 

Most of the hangs have been trying to start a flight but not all. Some have just been trying to do things that were suggested in other threads for this problem.

As far as I can remember, I haven't changed anything since yesterday regarding the sim except common tuning parameters, trying to get more FPS and a steady VR system.

I have tried running the Process Monitor as was suggested in another thread with no positive result.

Just as I was tuning VR and making some headway, now I can't do anything. I don't know where this is coming from.

Please make any and all suggestions as to how to get out of this total catch-22. I am dead in the water until I can get the sim to do something besides hang.

Case: (Lian Li PC-011 Dynamic XL), PSU: (MEG Ai300p pcie 5 & ATX 3.0), Motherboard: (ASUS TUF Gaming x670E-PLUS WIFI 6E), CPU: (AMD Ryzen 7 7800-X3D) 

Memory: (G.Skill Trident Z5 NEO RGB Series 64GB DDR5 6000), GPU: (Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 AMP Extreme Airo). CPU Cooler: (ASUS ROG Strix LC RGB 360) 

Fans: (7 Corsair LL Series 120mm RGB)

Hi Rob,

When I had problems, after some research I came across this:

1. Delete any rolling cache.

2. Delete the Content.xml file.

(AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Content.xml)

3. Delete the simulator .dat files

(AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\SceneryIndexes\*.dat)

4. Do not add anything to the Community folder

 

If that doesn't help, try this:

Quick reinstall without download all data:

  1. Copy the Official / Packages folder somewhere safe. (Or rename it temporarily) (This is the bulk of the data)

  2. Uninstall then re-install MSFS

  3. Copy the Official / Packages folder back to where you want it before starting MSFS

  4. Start MSFS, when it asks where the data folder should be, navigate back to where you put the Packages folder.

 

At least it helped in my case

Good luck

Mick

PC: Gigabyte X670 Aorus Elite, AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D, Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4080 Super Aorus Master, DDR5 G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo 2X32 GB, Corsair HX 1000, Fractal Torrent, Samsung LC32 / G7 1440P.

1 hour ago, Rob G said:

Please make any and all suggestions as to how to get out of this total catch-22. I am dead in the water until I can get the sim to do something besides hang.

Look here if it can help

 

Dominique

Simming since 1981 -  [email protected] GHz with 16 GB of RAM and a 1080 with 8 GB VRAM running a 27" @ 2560*1440 - Windows 10 - Warthog HOTAS - MFG pedals - MSFS Standard version with Steam

 

Try turning "Photogrammetry" off in the DATA section if you have it on. This is a known problem and has affected a lot of users including myself; a ticket has been logged with the support team. Try the Photogrammetry only first before turning off all online functions.

Cheers.

Forshaw.

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