On 4/13/2024 at 10:59 PM, Bob Scott said:

A .pnf file is a precompiled version of its corresponding .inf file--it enumerates the information needed to install a driver, in this case the Windows USB HID driver.  MSFS should have no reason to open it with write permissions, so accessing it read-only shouldn't by itself pose a problem.

What I might try is to reinstall the system USB HID driver in case that pnf file is corrupt--make a copy of the old input.pnf file, then move or delete it.  Right-click on input.inf and select "install"--this should reload the driver and create a new input.pnf file.

 

After following the suggestion to recompile the .inf file, I tried many flights and so far I have not had any freezes. I hope it continues like this, in the meantime, I have already started the procedures to erect a statue in your honor...

On 4/14/2024 at 5:01 AM, pete_auau said:

If you going  to do a windows   re  install   this  might help

and here for Windows 11

 

Hello,

I've found the problem for my system, I have been getting long freezing during mif flight, like around 1 minute or so. And then I've realized that when I unplugged any HW, MSFS is always freezing for long time. And then I figured out that my mouse which is wireless Logitech is shutting itself off if I don't touch it for a while and this is causing the freezing on MSFS, similar to unplugging any other HW. It also freezes again when I touched the mouse because this time it is detecting the plugging HW. If you are having similar problems then you can switch to any basic mouse/keyboard with wire or you can disable the stand by function for battery saving for your HW.

Hope this helps to you too.

I had freezes every so often when I rebuilt my PC recently. Was working perfectly before, but the rebuild had freezes every minute or two. Turns out it was the Streamdeck software. The latest version caused freezes. Rolling back to the oldest version that worked with PilotsDeck (6.5) stopped all the freezes and I'm now back to a smooth system.  Just as a test I updated to the latest Streamdeck and the freezes came back. Rolled back again and everything is good again.

On 4/23/2024 at 2:07 AM, igorbischi said:

After following the suggestion to recompile the .inf file, I tried many flights and so far I have not had any freezes. I hope it continues like this, in the meantime, I have already started the procedures to erect a statue in your honor...

Man, I don't know how Bob Scott figured that out, but I may be contributing to the status project.  I got rid of the input.inf file, but I also have a whole host of DLL files that are showing the exact same "FILE LOCKED WITH ONLY READERS" error in a repeating pattern:

C:\Windows\System32\opengl32.dll, d3d9.dll,ddraw.dll

Any solve for the dlls that it as simple as the input.INF?

It seems related to live traffic indeed

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/how-to-troubleshoot-msfs-freezing-up/620882/45?page=3

Not live traffic, I've had it off for weeks.