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Sim feezing randomly after update 7

Postby wilki64 » Mon Nov 22, 2021 2:13 pm

Sim is randomly freezing after update 7. Anyone else having this problem
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Re: Sim feezing randomly after update 7

Postby jlabit » Wed Nov 24, 2021 10:42 am

Mine is not "Freezing". It is "Stuttering" intermittently now, something that wasn't happening before this last update. It looks like a lag. Can be difficult when you are on an approach for landing and need to fine tune your aircraft.
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Re: Sim feezing randomly after update 7

Postby wilki64 » Wed Nov 24, 2021 11:00 am

Not had stuttering. You can be flying along when the sim will just simply lock up. Cant escape out of it. Have to CTRL-ALT- DEL and shut it down.
No set pattern of time wehn it happens. Can be 10 mins or 50 mins...........Very annoying ! ???
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Re: Sim feezing randomly after update 7

Postby NarcisaFultz » Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:47 pm

wilki64 wrote:Sim is randomly freezing after update 7. Anyone else having this problem
thanks in advance

I have a very same question!
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Re: Sim feezing randomly after update 7

Postby Daube » Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:01 am

I haven't read anything related to such instability of the sim itself.
However, I would investigate in priority the three usual suspects:
1- the mods you might have installed in your community folder
2- the scenery cache
3- the graphic drivers (if you have an NVidia GPU)

Start by emptying the scenery cache (if activated) from your general options -> data section, if you haven't already done it. Some previously stored scenery might be incompatible.
Then proceed with emptying your community folder (just move its content to another temporary folder, so that you can move that back after your tests) and see if your sim still freezes in the same places.
Then check your GPU driver. Some versions are known to be problematic. I'm still using a very old version (457.30) and never had problems.

I was going to mention the hardware too, like some possible overheating that would make the game crash... however, I think in such a case you wouldn't be able to go back to the desktop, the whole computer usually freezes when this happens, forcing a reboot....
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Re: Sim feezing randomly after update 7

Postby wilki64 » Thu Dec 02, 2021 7:56 am

Thanks...... the only thing I 've not done is roll back the drivers to an earlier version.. I've also heard that Asus GPU Tweak can cause this sort of problem so will shut it down and do some more tests
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Re: Sim feezing randomly after update 7

Postby EVVFCX » Sat Dec 04, 2021 6:01 pm

Hi,
Anyything listed in the buildererrorlog file3 showing what's failed.

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So far my number of landings either passenger or pilot equal my number of takeoffs.

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Re: Sim feezing randomly after update 7

Postby wilki64 » Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:59 am

Hi Steve, where do I find this file. Have tried the last two tweaks and still same problem.
Cheers.............Mick
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Re: Sim feezing randomly after update 7

Postby EVVFCX » Sun Dec 05, 2021 10:48 am

Hi Mick,

In my installation which is a confusing me at the moment, it's found here:
C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache
If yours is default microsoft store location then substitute your user name in place of NAME inn the above path.

It would be interesting to know the contents.

That's if yours is installed in the default location.
If not then at a guess it's 2 folders (directories) back from the Community folder.

My confusion at the moment is that on the last mandatory update, I ran out of room on my drive, I knew it would happen at some point so I pointed it at my D drive and it's installed the basic package and the 2 deluxe versions but it's still using the community folder from my original installation in the default C drive, mine is the microsoft store version.

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Re: Sim feezing randomly after update 7

Postby wilki64 » Sun Dec 05, 2021 11:38 am

Had a look at the file and there's no obvious errors showing up there
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Re: Sim feezing randomly after update 7

Postby wilki64 » Sat Jan 01, 2022 11:53 am

PROBLEM SOLVED.................after much trial and error, it turned out it was the: Change cockpit views assigned to the Hatswitch on my joystick.
Removed these assignments and no more problems
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