Flight Sim 2020 keeps crashing even with the a beast of a PC and Video card?

I think we can only vent at Microsoft because they are the ones who are selling it. They alone need to fix the bugs, which hopefully will be done in Patch 2 - we shall see.

Good to know you have cracked it. Agree re VSync, but stilla djustinga testing to try to get it to run without crashing. So far I have managed one hour before a crash, which is a big improvement.

Hi Jeremy, thanks again for the ongoing updates, which are very helpful. Regarding the refund issue, after much researching and several phone calls, I eventually got some sound advice and, currently being part of the EU, I have submitted Complaint via the EU’s disputes system. Miscrosoft gave me the link, which is AKA.MS/EU-ODR (for anybody else in the EU who wants a refund). It was sent off yesterday and I will let you know what they say. If I do get a refund, like you I intend to re-purchase it, but will do this through a MS Game Pass, which costs £3.99 a month in the UK. Its only the basic game, but I can cancel the game pass anytime and can then play with the game to see if I can get to run properly and not feel as frustrated that I had wasted £109.99 for an non-working game.

That ariticcle was excellent and I now understand much more - thank you. Last night I reduced the game settings to low and it ran on a flight for over hour, but then crashed after I landed and was planning another flight. This morning, I have changed the FPS to 20 in the Nvidia Control panel and I am currently in a one hour+ flight and will try to do another one after that to see how long before it crashes, or maybe not at all, although I have low confidence for that. Its a bit jerky on th external graphics, especially out of the side window (TBM 930), but for now that’s ok.

As to the future, I am hoping that the next patch helps. Although my system is not bad, I am thinking of upgrading after Christmas to an i7- with the new 11-series and also a new 3070 graphics card. That will be an expensive option (whole system £2500) but also tracking the new Xbox X due release in the UK in November  and which will eventually have FS2020. They say you can plug in keyboards, mouse and hopefully my controller, as I don’t want to use the standard XBox controller. The Xbox X is under £600 and this might be a great option, espeiclaly if it runs FS2020 in the high-end spec, as there would not be any issues. I am going to continue to monitor both options so that I can happily keep flying regularly. I am retired Royal Air Force,  but not the flying branch and have always loved flying. What part of Oz are you in? We should have been there now on a 2-month house swap with mates in Kineton (one hour north of Melbourne) followed by a month in NZ, but hope to now do it in 2022.

As I pressed send to you it crashed after 50 minutes, so still not sorted :(

I think what you say in your last paragraph is the exact probelm. They really need to sort this, but I sense they really don’t care, as long as the majority are playing succesfully the rest of us are just a small noise in the backgroud. I did pay for the full and game have requested a refund through the EU’s disputes process.