49 minutes ago, Jack_Sawyer said:

Empty the entire Community folder?  If I did that I’d lose the shortcut icons and would have to reinstall everything.  I’m not up for that yet.  Thanks though.

Back it up first. You most likely have CTD due to either conflicting  or corrupted scenery. One way to find out is  it out is to run "vanilla" MSFS

33 minutes ago, Sonosusto said:

Whoah. Are you loading up on the runway each time? Traffic settings? Have you removed every single addon yet? This sounds severe. I would remove every single thing from the community folder (planes, liveries and scenery etc) and even remove addons from the MSFS menu under content that you bought (the marketplace). Some above mentioned deleting a few caches....I would recommend that as well.

I fly several different payware and freeware planes around PANC, Fairbanks, Kodiak islands in various weather and I have a ton of scenery. KSEA, KPDX, KORS etc etcThis seems like a conflict from a scenery to another.

Have you thought about using AddonLinker? It's free and easy. You put all freeware and payware into a separate folder and it automatically "links" these to the community folder when you check the check box. It makes it really easy to help with loading times and ruling out issues like this.

Example: I will often clean out the community by "unlinking" all products and delete the entire contents of the folder if I have issues. There are a ton of tutorials on youtube how to do this. I highly recommend it to help you.

Thanks but addon linker is simply out of the question.  I’m sorry but I just don’t like it, had bad experiences with it in P3D and just don’t like it.  I’ll try removing everything later.  Thanks.

5 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

Back it up first. You most likely have CTD due to either conflicting  or corrupted scenery. One way to find out is  it out is to run "vanilla" MSFS

Thanks.  Specifically how do I back it up?

49 minutes ago, Jack_Sawyer said:

Thanks but addon linker is simply out of the question.  I’m sorry but I just don’t like it, had bad experiences with it in P3D and just don’t like it.  I’ll try removing everything later.  Thanks.

You'll find there's an overwhelming consensus of how helpful and easy it is for MSFS. Didn't realize the same developer made this for p3d....

1 minute ago, Sonosusto said:

You'll find there's an overwhelming consensus of how helpful and easy it is for MSFS. Didn't realize the same developer made this for p3d....

Thanks, but honestly, it’s not for me.  I’d rather quit MSFS than use it.

52 minutes ago, Jack_Sawyer said:

Thanks.  Specifically how do I back it up?

Create a folder and copy content of community folder

23 minutes ago, Jack_Sawyer said:

Thanks, but honestly, it’s not for me.  I’d rather quit MSFS than use it.

Got it.

Now, have you followed the steps above by several of us and retried? We have not experienced this issue.

Does this happen anywhere else?

That exception code is very difficult to decipher as it means literally anything but usually addon related. Even sometimes memory related (for me at one point).

15 hours ago, AeroMaster12 said:

Your options shouldn't be impacted - those are stored in different folders (as long as you don't touch anything outside of /SceneryIndexes); some [like controls] are saved/synced to/from the cloud.

Ok, I finally have time to do this.

I hard to manually type in the %localappdata% string because I don't use email on this PC, it's only for MSFS, I use a Mac fr everything else.

First I uninstalled Orbx's Alaska Mesh, then uninstalled PANC, then deleted those .DAT files.  

Tried to spawn a plane at PANC, CTD.

Then I deleted ALL of the .DAT files and same thing, CTD.

I'm now in the process of copying everything from the Community folder to a back folder on the desktop and emptying the Community folder and trying it again.

This started after the update 13 but I didn't see anyone else having this same problem.  All I can think of it's maybe a Windows update?  I can't use 11, my PC isn't powerful enough so I have 10.  

Everything was absolutely PERFECT for months and months, not one CTD.  No idea how this could happened.

3 minutes ago, Sonosusto said:

Got it.

Now, have you followed the steps above by several of us and retried? We have not experienced this issue.

Does this happen anywhere else?

That exception code is very difficult to decipher as it means literally anything but usually addon related. Even sometimes memory related (for me at one point).

See my new post. Thanks.  I'm trying to empty the Community folder now then will retry.

2 hours ago, sd_flyer said:

Back it up first. You most likely have CTD due to either conflicting  or corrupted scenery. One way to find out is  it out is to run "vanilla" MSFS

Well, I did this.  The Community folder is completely empty.

Ran MSFS, tried to spawn the 208B at PANC and as soon as the blue bar was maybe 90% across, instant CTD.

I just don't know what to do now.

🥺

37 minutes ago, Jack_Sawyer said:

See my new post. Thanks.  I'm trying to empty the Community folder now then will retry.

You don't have to empty the community folder, just rename it, and MSFS will create a new one that is empty. 

8 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

You don't have to empty the community folder, just rename it, and MSFS will create a new one that is empty. 

Well, the one in there is called Community and it's empty and I get the CTD’s so now I’m at a loss.

3 hours ago, Jack_Sawyer said:

Inside my Community folder I have little yellow folder icons with arrows on them.  Maybe I’m not up to speed with the correct nomenclature.  These little yellow folders with arrows I suppose come from the ORBX Direct folder among other like INI?

Yesterday as a test I moved the PANC folder with the little arrow to the desktop.  It then lost its arrow.  When I moved it back to the community folder it no longer had the arrow.

I don’t know a lot about this stuff.  One thing I do not want to do under any circumstances is use that addon linker.  Personal reasons.

Those are junction folders, you shouldn't mess with them. If the PANC folder doesn't have the arrow anymore, the link is broken. Guess you will have to reinstall the scenery or you could try verifying the files in OrbX Center.

4 minutes ago, Alvega said:

Those are junction folders, you shouldn't mess with them. If the PANC folder doesn't have the arrow anymore, the link is broken. Guess you will have to reinstall the scenery or you could try verifying the files in OrbX Center.

Thanks for the info, I didn’t know that.  Please see my above posts though, Community folder empty, still CTD’s.

Ok, do you use rolling cache (in MSFS settings )? If so, try to delete it and  create it again .

if this doesn’t help it can be something MSFS is corrupted . I know it’s pain but I reinstalled my MSFS at least twice already ,

I don’t believe CTD is caused by windows. Unless you don’t keep up with windows updates .