MS FS 2020 crashes after starting

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Hi and thanks for reaching Microsoft Xbox gamer's community. My name is Josef.
I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft Xbox user like you.

Hope you're doing great today despite this Archie

Additional information is needed, please answer the following questions to assist you properly:

Is this happening on Xbox or PC?
If it's on PC, are you using Windows 10 or 11?
If it's on Xbox, what console do you have?
When the game crashes do you receive an error message / code? Or nothing?
If you're on PC, are you experiencing this with the Steam or Microsoft store / Xbox app version of the game?

And, what did you tried so far to fix this problem?
In that way I can advise you different things or how to proceed

Same problem here. My configuration is:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700K 3.60 GHz

32 GB RAM

NVIDIA RTX 3080-Ti

Win 11 Pro Version 22H2 OS build 22621.819

MS FS 2020 1.27.21

All system/windows updates applied (as usual)

NEVER had any problem getting the MAX out of my MS FS 2020 configuration.

Nov 7, I did the last Win 11 Pro update 22H2. May be this has something to do with it.

The last couple of days I got CTD's as soon as I hit Ready to Fly in World Map.

Using standard aircraft etc.

All Add-on's (Navigraph, Pilot2ATC, FSUIPC, SpadNext) up-to-date and never causing problems.

The weird thing is that Training Lessons are working perfect, even after hitting the Ready to Fly key.

Reinstalling MS FS 2020 is definitely not the way to go. We really need to find out what causes the CTD's.

Otherwise we have no guarantee and we will be playing trial-and-error.

One hour after I posted this problem, I noticed the following.

In my MS FS 2020 General Options > Graphics (DLSS setting Quality), I saw that quite a few settings that I had put to ULTRA (because of my RTX 3080-Ti card) were put back to default. I put them back to ULTRA and saved the new settings. Then I quit MS FS2020.

I did not immediately did not start up FS2020 but first upgraded my GeForce Game Ready driver to 526.86.

Hereafter I restarted MS FS 2020, tried my default flight with an A320 from EHAM to EHRD (live weather, realtime) and I could not believe my eyes: it just worked as usual. Bite me!

I really don't know what made it working again. I must be the extreme graphics settings and/or the new GeForce Game Ready Driver.

Hopefully somebody can comment on this. I sincerely hope that other simmers can profit from this.

Kind regards,

-gw

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