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Just happened to me, too. I noticed my baro setting was at 28.85. Must have been because my previous flight had ended at EGLL, where the pressure was that low. I reloaded the weather in Opus, and the baro reading was 30.15. The doors were then able to operate normally. Alan Davies

Update: It turns out that the cure for me was to change UPPER_FRAMERATE_LIMIT from 30 to 0. No more freezes for me. It may or not work for anyone else.

Unfortunately, although it seems to have helped some people, disabling autosave did not stop my freezes.

Also, I've noticed that the 777 continues to burn fuel while in this frozen state. When my freezes end, the plane has not moved during the duration of the freeze, but there is less fuel on board. I wish I knew what that meant.

Mine starts freezing over Greenland, too! Flying KJFK-VHHH, she hums along nicely until somewhere over Greenland, then I see repeated freezes lasting 5 to 15 minutes, but if I let it go it eventually seems to somehow settle down after heading south over Asia and then I don't see any more freezes until the end of the flight. I've been wondering whether the length of the flights I've been attempting has something to do with this. It only seems to start when I'm a good 5 or 6 hours into a 15+ hour flight. I've tried disabling all my extras, including FSUIPC autosave, Opus weather and UT2, but still get the freezes. Another thing I tried was to delete my Logbook.bin file. I found some old forum messages indicating that it could be a source of freezes. That hasn't cured the problem, either, although at first it seemed that I was getting the freezes less frequently. Frustrating.

I've relegated this plane to the hangar due to a couple of serious drawbacks. These matter to me, but they might not matter to you. There are no pop out PFD or ND or ECAM gauges, so it is very difficult to get good crisp undocked displays of those gauges onto a second monitor. It may be possible, but I've given up trying. The visual quality of the gauges is not what I hoped for. (They do provide a pop out for the left MCDU.) When I bought this plane, I didn't think this would be such a big deal, but I've gotten to the point where it's now an absolute dealbreaker for me. There are other planes I can fly which have a much better display of the primary flight instruments, so I just don't fly this anymore. This plane just won't work if you change the simulation rate to anything other than 1. You simply cannot accelerate, even to 2x. That may or may not matter to anyone else, but I do find it annoying. Just my opinion...