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Hello, no, I don't use 3rd party anti-virus

Hello. I have already made sure to exclude the MSFS directories from my antivirus scans, and I have also tried using the Windows repair function, but unfortunately, these steps haven't resolved the issue.Thank you for your suggestions!

Yes, thanks!

Thank you very much, I will try your suggestion.

Thank you for your responses. As mentioned in my post, I have tried everything without success, so I am particularly interested in focusing on how the event I described could be related to the freezing issue, namely the repeated locking of the input.PNF file by the flight simulator executable. Does anyone have any insights into what might be causing this? Thank you very much. P.S. My issue does not involve CTDs; the process does not crash.

Hello, I’ve been experiencing long freezes for years, like many other users. MSFS freezes for a few minutes and then resumes. I’ve tried everything: different planes, removed the community folder, tried various suggestions and graphic settings both at the card level and within MSFS, changed the graphics card, disabled antivirus, reinstall msfs etc., but nothing works. The freezes consistently reoccur at least once every two flights. The behavior is similar to when a device is connected or disconnected from a USB port, but in this case the USB ports are not involved (I used a low-level tool to check the events on the ports to verify this). I’ve now used the utility Process Monitor to delve deeper into what happens when the freeze occurs. During the monitored freeze event, Process Monitor logged multiple file system activities from FlightSimulator.exe. Most notably, there were repeated attempts to access files related to input device drivers. The freeze start coincided exactly with the first instance of the file input.PNF being marked with the status “FILE LOCKED WITH ONLY READERS”. This indicates that the file was accessed while it was locked and available only for reading. Here is the first occurrence of the event: Time:19:06:43,4643059 Process:FlightSimulator.exe PID:11124 Operation:CreateFileMapping PATH:C:\Windows\INF\input.PNF RESULT:FILE LOCKED WITH ONLY READERS DETAIL: "SyncType: SyncTypeCreateSection, PageProtection: PAGE_EXECUTE_READ." The thousands of repetitions of such event stop exactly when the freeze ended, a few minutes after it started. Does anyone have any ideas about this?

I've been battling freezes for over two years now. I've tried everything: empty community folder, cache settings, graphic settings (DirectX 11 and 12), and all the various suggestions one can find on the internet, without any noticeable results. I regularly update the graphics card drivers and obviously install updates for MSFS. In my case, the freezes usually happen with the airplane (whichever it may be) during preparation before takeoff. Usually, I have one freeze per flight. Its duration is many minutes, most of the time between 5 and 10 minutes: as many experience, the audio continues to be heard but the simulator is completely stuck. Then, after waiting for many minutes, everything goes back to normal. The closest behavior to these freezes I can experience is when, for example, I disconnect a USB device (like the keyboard). In such cases, a similar but much shorter freeze occurs (lasting between about 30 seconds to a minute). ----------------- Operating System Windows 11 Home 64-bit CPU Intel Core i5 10400 @ 2.90GHz 54 °C Comet Lake 14nm Technology RAM 16,0GB Dual-Channel DDR4 @ 1330MHz (15-17-17-35) Motherboard ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. TUF GAMING H470-PRO (LGA1200) 37 °C Graphics 27GL850 (2560x1440@144Hz) 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER (EVGA) 81 °C Storage 465GB Samsung SSD 860 EVO 500GB (SATA (SSD)) 32 °C 931GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB (SATA (SSD)) 33 °C

Thanks for you replay. As I wrote the sim doesn't crash.

For more than a year I have experienced freezes of several minutes, sometimes more than once in a flight. My system is fairly recent and 'robust' in terms of disk, ram, graphics card, etc. I have tried all the possible solutions suggested on the various forums etc, to no avail. I have noticed that these freezes are always accompanied by the windows error: "Disk has been surprised removed", referring to one of the virtual disks that msfs creates for internal management. As soon as this error is generated msfs remains unusable for a few minutes, sometimes up to 7/8. Then it starts working again as if nothing had happened. Has anyone else noticed this relationship between the event of the virutal disk being removed and freze or similar problems? Thank you.

I have noticed that the freezes are accompanied by the system error “disk x has been surprise removed (id 157)”, where x usually takes the value 3. I only have two disks 0 and 1, so 3 I think refers to a virtual disk created by msfs when it runs. I think the concurrence of this error with freezes is not coincidental.

No, always had on ssd from the start

Hello everyone, I've been experiencing persistent freezing issues for several months now. The freezes are quite long, sometimes lasting several minutes. They occur both within the simulator interface before a flight is embarked upon and after an aircraft has been loaded. What's peculiar about these freezes is that they're reminiscent of what happens when I connect or disconnect a device via a USB port - everything stalls momentarily, only in this case, the halt lasts much longer (from 2 to 5 minuts). I've scoured various forums and tried numerous suggested remedies, but unfortunately, none have worked so far. Some of the solutions I've attempted include: Emptying the 'Community' folder. Disabling the 'Game Mode' in Windows 11 system settings. Unplugging all unnecessary USB devices. Disabling the 'Let Windows turn off the power' option for all USB controllers. Among others, none of these remedies have seemed to alleviate the issue. Anyone has encountered similar problem?

Hello. It doesn't work for me. Whichever key I assign (keyboard or joystick) nothing happens. The log also does not show the keypress event. However, I posted on the FsRealistic forum.

I do not understand how to use it. If I press the tutorial button nothing happens, same thing if I define and then use the 'Toggle button'..

Thank you