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I have a i9 5.Ghz with 32Gb Ram, Windows 10 Pro, Nvidia RTX2080Ti and even when I put the graphics on low as recommended with Nvidia Experience the game crashes with error Critical Process Died!
I have benched my video card and all Games run perfect and high settings and never crash.
Understanding that this game has to render many objects in any given scene which is understandable however when I cannot run even at a low settings is not exceptable please get me touch of support to get a refund of this game please. I purchased the most expensive opition.
Most disapointed
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I can help you, I think. I had this problem earlier with several games, and fixed that by replacing PSU with one having 1000watt.
For all others: My problem is that FS2020 keeps crashing over New York when starting at Empire Building or nearby. When starting in Europe or any other region I can fly for hours.
Complete new installation on other hard drive did not fix it. Crash to desktop.
I just bought a nearly £2000 ASUS ROG gaming laptop, i9-9880H, 32GB RAM, RTX 2070 8GB from Amazon for this game and it runs like total horse s*** with graphics on medium/low. I’m returning it and getting a Series X and I’ll wait and see if they can get it to run on that. I can’t believe how much it stutters and crashes even after the patch updates with everything on the laptop fully updated. I really thought an i9 processor would run this game smoothly... I was wrong, should’ve believed the comments from people saying it was a total bug-fest!
EDIT: 26/09/2020
Actually running very smoothly now since I updated the Nvidia GeForce Driver to version 840M 26.21.14.4253, if that helps anyone! I’m not tech savvy but make sure absolutely everything on your PC is updated and you should be fine. Now I’m enjoying high graphics and FPS over NYC!
It was my CPU!!!! My brand new high-end gaming computer would lock-up at random -5- 45 minutes into flight, freezing the video and emitting a buzz or hum. Nothing but a hard boot would allow it to leave that state, 15-20 hours of trying absolutely every suggestion on all these sites (reloading and updating drivers, checking, changing all kinds of settings, even fresh install of windows (even though it's a new computer with Nothing else on it) I finally took it to tech guys and it failed the bench tests.
Weeks of thinking it was anything/everything else. They honored the warrantee, I got a new computer, one install, update drivers, and NO settings changes and it works flawlessly.
I was having very similar problems on my HP Omen "gaming notebook" which is also my mobile office. Hex core processor, decent SSD and an onboard NVIDIA GPU. Running Windows 10, early release 9developper cycle) but only stable versions.
Crashed without any real provocation. Especially if I tried to fly out of my local airport - instant drop to system. Lessons would freeze part way through.
I'd downloaded it about when it came out then upgraded from the store.
So I reset the application.
Still crashed randomly
Investigated virtual memory settings and shifted to system managed (that shrank the pagefile, I had set it to a monstrous value for some Excel work I do)
It still crashed!
Upgraded to Deluxe rather than the "Games subscription" lower cost version. (Just in case.) That had it do some stuff that looked like it truly believed I was licensed - but it still crashed.
I de-installed the software after resetting, reinstalled - and even with an 80mbps download speed, that was like watching paint drying. This is a most bloated bundle of garbage. It downloads every "challenge" in its repertoire, consuming around 100GB. Big fat bloated code base.
Wondering if the default play settings were too rich, I dropped the frame rate down to 24 fps.
The flying lessons now work stably unless you flow on to the next lesson. Then they just crash to system.
So I've spent around Aus$260 (US$190) on a chunk of software that was promoted heavily by MS as the best flight sim ever. It is not ready for commercial release, It is not fit for purpose.
Anyone want to get a class action going for mail order fraud?
I spend my working life advising clients how to securely design secure IT systems. The total unreliability of this MS badged product makes me wonder about reliance in all MS products.
John
Having the same issue. Cant even install. Keeps crashing on the installation of the 110 Gig update to use the game Have AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6 core, 16 G Ram, and Radeon RX580 with 8 G VRAM. Ran through all the hoops. No dice. starting to really get me upset.
