Microsoft Flight Simulator patch improves performance but causes more crashes

A major update came to Microsoft Flight Simulator this week, with improved performance as one of its main focuses. According to the release notes, it added “improved multi core support for CPU” as well as “better memory and GPU usage” and “faster loading times”. In addition, “stutters have been significantly reduced”. That all sounds like great stuff, but unfortunately the update has also been causing the game to crash to desktop for some players, even in the menu. That’s not so great.

The subreddit contains several posts along the lines of “New update has increased performance, unfortunately this isn’t useful because now I can’t play for 5 minutes without crashing to desktop” or deploying the usual memes. The tone of posts on the official forum has been less playful, however.