Hello everyone, I'm having an issue with FSX in the American continent and I'm at my wits end.
Since the last few days I have been trying to spawn at airports in central and eastern NA. For
some reason, I get CTDs right after loading the flight completes. Instead of 'spawning', after
loading completes screen continues staying black, program switches to "Not Responding"
state for a couple of minutes until I eventually get a CTD. Western US works just fine, as
does the EU and every other region. The thing is that this does not leave any info regarding
the error in the Event Viewer. Downloaded AppCrashView just in case, still nothing. Tried
searching my 'Addon Scenery' directory, as well as Scenery/Global and World for any recent
changes, did not find anything suspicious.
I have a big list of addons installed, including GEX previously, then ORBX OLC and UTX. (Can't
think of any others that would have such a large scale impact on the FSX world). To note, I've
had these for quite some time and remember just a few months ago testing some addon airports
like KJFK, KBOS, CYUL, CYQX etc and remember everything working fine. Have not installed
anything America related in the last few months at least. I've been troubleshooting the sim
here and there for a long time, but this time I am just clueless. I can't even get near NA
central and eastern regions, not even Greenland. Tried more testing, turns out that the whole
American continent is producing instant CTDs. The only places that don't are the west coast
of the US (Alaska, Washington etc.) until down at NW Mexico. South America doesn't work
at all. The only thing I did a month ago that potentially could have messed with some files
was do some scans with IObit System Care and cleaned my registry.
I also did the following experiment: Spawned with the CLS 747-200 (relatively FPS-friendly)
at Boeing Field in Seattle, no issues. Attemted to take-off, climb to a flight level and just
head East (HDG about 100deg). Initially, all ok, as I started to close in on the problematic
region of NA, I started getting some very weird flickering within the sim, rest of PC was ok.
The closer I got, the flickering got more intense, and after about 1h30m of flight time, I got
a CTD again. I posted a relevant video on YT just in case anyone is interested to see what I
mean. As you can see, when the direction of view is towards the (probably) problematic areas,
flickering intensifies. Also when zooming in as well. Tried the same with Aerosoft F-16: No
flickering this time, but still get the same CTD, with the Captain Sim 727, same as with F-16.
Similar weird texture flickering occurs on other things as well and anywhere in the world,
not with this intensity though, (e.g. AI cars occasionally) so this may be a problem to
solve some other time.
After playing with the installed addons in the Scenery Library, my crashes now mainly generate
errors with the faulting module reported as being the ai_player.dll. Btw, I have AI aircraft
traffic disabled since I mainly fly on vatsim, I previously had WOAI but still problem free.
Also tried renaming the fsx.cfg, scenery.cfg and dll.xml, still no luck.
I understand this may be quite rare since I haven't really found anything similar around.
Any info would be greatly appreciated, probably from someone that has ran into this already,
thank you in advance. I will not have access to my PC for the next 20-ish days, waiting for
any suggestion to try out when able.
- Windows 10
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 1200
- GPU: AMD Radeon RX 550 (with boosted performance from 'AMD Radeon Software')
- FSX Gold Edition
- DX10 Steeve Fixer
- Many WOAI Aircraft Models
- ORBX Open LC 1.30
- ORBX Global 1.40
- ORBX Vector 1.51
- UTX
- ReShade with SweetFX
Link to video with flickering (the first minute should be enough to showcase the issue):