On 3/7/2025 at 9:34 PM, Funky D said:

Nvidia drivers have also been a bit of a mess since the release of the 50 series. Plenty of discussion on the Nvidia forums, but one post that stood out in particular talked about how their card (I think it was a 40 series) had larger voltage drops with one of the 572 driver versions which caused some instability. I've been dealing, but I've been having random issues with videos freezing in Chrome/Edge and also had some random reboots for the first time ever in 2024 a few weeks ago. Could be a different hardware/software issue, and haven't had a reboot since messing with some BIOS settings, but I can't help but look at all the other complaints of the Nvidia drivers online and think they may have something to do with it.

People are generally in agreement that the 566 version of the drivers have been more stable than the 572, so worth a shot messing with your drivers if you're still having issues.

Well it seems the 572.7X are the ones which causes the most issues... Myself on 572.16 and rock stable 🙂

I have updated NVDA drivers more than a few times the past few months, and prior to the past week or so none of the updates stopped the CTDs. I have had 7 or 8 sessions in 24 and no crashes. Thank you Asobo and MS. Now get the next update out! 

17 hours ago, RobJC said:

I have updated NVDA drivers more than a few times the past few months, and prior to the past week or so none of the updates stopped the CTDs. I have had 7 or 8 sessions in 24 and no crashes. Thank you Asobo and MS. Now get the next update out! 

Since everything is stable for you now, I would recommend you don't update to future versions of the NVidia driver unless it's absolutely necessary.  Once everything is stable, don't change anything, and hopefully it will continue to be stable. As the saying goes, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."  Especially with software and operating systems, the more stuff changes, the more stuff will break.  So if everything is working and it's stable, best is to keep it that way (except for severe cases like security and virus vulnerabilities, those have to be patched).

There is a chance that one of your past NVidia driver installs was corrupted.  But it's stable now, so all is good.  In the case that you are forced to install a new NVidia driver, if the installation doesn't work and you get CTDs again, look into DDU, which does a clean uninstallation of your NVidia drivers.  But DDU is also a last resort, and I advise avoiding DDU unless you are getting CTDs because of an NVidia driver update (hence I suggest you avoid updating you NVidia driver if everything is working well).  Good luck with MSFS 2024.

Edited March 10, 20251 yr by abrams_tank

Agree AT. If it ain’t broke! Thanks for the help!