Constant CTD all of a Sudden

[PilotPete99 915]

Hello - Not sure what's going on. but over the last few days, I can't complete a flight without a CTD at some point before arrive. I rarely over got these up until now. Just now, in PMDG 737, enroute from EGAC to EIDW, about 20 miles from EIDW. I am not sure what is going on, but hardware shouldn't be an issue. Any ideas? Here are my specs: Intel Core i7-11700F @ 2.50Ghz, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 @12GB, 32GB RAM DDR4, and no overclocking. I'm using the latest GeForce Game Ready Driver 531.79. Thanks in advance.

Cheers, Pete

[Swe_Richard 1,175]

Just now, PilotPete99 said:

Hello - Not sure what's going on. but over the last few days, I can't complete a flight without a CTD at some point before arrive. I rarely over got these up until now. Just now, in PMDG 737, enroute from EGAC to EIDW, about 20 miles from EIDW. I am not sure what is going on, but hardware shouldn't be an issue. Any ideas? Here are my specs: Intel Core i7-11700F @ 2.50Ghz, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 @12GB, 32GB RAM DDR4, and no overclocking. I'm using the latest GeForce Game Ready Driver 531.79. Thanks in advance.

Cheers, Pete

What does the windows event log say?

[PilotPete99 915]

[PilotPete99 915]

I just realized someone else posted about this right after. this is puzzling.

Cheers, Pete

[Swe_Richard 1,175]

Odd.

I got that as well the other night. First time ever. I kind of suspect FSLTL/FSHUD. But I am unsure. Nothing to do about temps, just about the only thing I am certain of.

 

[PilotPete99 915]

I was even wondering if it was related to the new driver. Very strange.

Cheers, Pete

[Swe_Richard 1,175]

6 minutes ago, PilotPete99 said:

I was even wondering if it was related to the new driver. Very strange.

Cheers, Pete

Oh, just installed a new version?

[PilotPete99 915]

2 minutes ago, Swe_Richard said:

Oh, just installed a new version?

Yep, I am right now reverting back to the .68 driver. I will test the same flight shortly.

Cheers, Pete

[Sonosusto 703]

Real question is....do have have any addons relating to that area? Scenery etc? What are you settings. TLOD, LOD etc.

This "on approach or final" CTD's are a real pain sometimes. I wonder if your sim is hitting the object limit or something.

Do you have traffic running?

[Fiorentoni 4,369]

In my experience if that happens on approach it is because some airport scenery is loading in and within that scenery there is a conflict with another scenery, which is very often a modellib file that has the same name (devs should usually name them differently, but some still don't). Check if the scenery you used for that flight has a file that is called modellib (that is: at least 2 airports that use this name). If so, you should use addon linker to automatically rename all those files of every single scenery.
Since I did that about 7 months ago I've had maybe one CTD in total, before it was at least once every two weeks.

Of course nvidia drivers could also be the cause, especially if you recently updated.

[PilotPete99 915]

Update: Just completed the same flight after reverting back to Driver 531.68, and the flight was flawless. Not ever a stutter. This was departing Pyreegue EGAC and arriving at MK EIDW V2, also with Dublin city scenery from Orbx. Clearly, it was the latest driver.

Cheers, Pete

[jcomm 6,008]

Some drivers are dangerous... That's why there are so many accidents ... 😁

Edited May 6, 2023 by jcomm

[Bobsk8 12,862]

21 hours ago, PilotPete99 said:

Update: Just completed the same flight after reverting back to Driver 531.68, and the flight was flawless. Not ever a stutter. This was departing Pyreegue EGAC and arriving at MK EIDW V2, also with Dublin city scenery from Orbx. Clearly, it was the latest driver.

Cheers, Pete

Recipe for disaster, have a smooth running sim, and install the latest driver. 

[edpatino 1,979]

For that same reason I never use the latest driver. I'm on 531.29 and very happy with it, zero issues

[sidfadc 1,344]

22 hours ago, Fiorentoni said:

In my experience if that happens on approach it is because some airport scenery is loading in and within that scenery there is a conflict with another scenery, which is very often a modellib file that has the same name (devs should usually name them differently, but some still don't). Check if the scenery you used for that flight has a file that is called modellib (that is: at least 2 airports that use this name). If so, you should use addon linker to automatically rename all those files of every single scenery.
Since I did that about 7 months ago I've had maybe one CTD in total, before it was at least once every two weeks.

Of course nvidia drivers could also be the cause, especially if you recently updated.

If you use Add on Linker, there is an inbuilt tool which scans all scenery for conflicting model lib files and renames things automatically - very handy!