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These are the error details, maybe it could be helpful. Note that, the crash happens always at the same offset, 000000000103ce37

 FlightSimulator.exe 
   0.0.0.0 
   00000000 
   FlightSimulator.exe 
   0.0.0.0 
   00000000 
   c0000005 
   000000000103ce37 
   2cb4 
   01d79ac4d97d9840 
   C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.18.15.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\FlightSimulator.exe 
   C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.18.15.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\FlightSimulator.exe 
   e3148cb9-3151-425d-9bee-f488302964dc 
   Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.18.15.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe 
   App 

I would really like to have some answer from the devs. This bug is so serious that it makes working at airports almost impossible, requiring too much time to edit, due to the continuous CTD every few minutes, requiring a long restart each time.

I managed to reduce it a bit, using the following workaround:

- I compile the scenery externally with the fspackagetool, and place it in the Community folder

- Before starting the sim, I remove the airport BGL ( the one that has all the taxiways nodes/paths ) from the scenery folder and I edit it out from the layout.json file too.

This allows to fix the disappearing Projected Mesh bug when a scenery not already present in the Community at start is loaded in the editor and seems to have increased the time between CTDs from a minute to 5-10 minutes.

But still this should really be looked at, because the Scenery Editor is simply too unstable to be usable in its current state, and one shouldn't go through these time consuming hoops to begin with.

Also, since the CTD is unpredictable and can happen any time every 5-10 minutes, it increases the number of clicks required to edit an airport, since now I'm forced to press the SAVE button each time after a single edit, because it's impossible to tell when the next CTD will strike.

Note that, I'm trying to keep the external interference as low as possible so, I don't have anything else in the Community folder, I have the rolling cache disabled, I disabled ALL traffic ( AI or Human ) and I keep the weather as Clear Skies preset.

The most dangerous operation definitely seems to be MOUSE DRAGGING any object, regardless if it's a node or a parking. That's when the chance of a CTD is higher.

The disappearance of the projected mesh has been happening since the start of testing with SU5.
Myself and other developers have already reported this problem several times, I gave a copy of my project with this problem to sylvian so he could see it for himself and this is what he told me:

@FlyingRaccoon : I've reproduced the rotation/scale issue with your package and our scenery editor dev has this bug in his todo list.

My problem goes beyond simply disappearing, the projected mesh in my case does not appear the real size, it appears very small and it is necessary to rotate and enlarge the image a lot so that it can fit with the real size and this is impossible because after a few seconds it disappears.

I have not had any more feedback on this problem, so I can not know at what point they are now, if we will have a solution to this problem soon or not.

CTD problems is something that I also have time experiencing, in my case is unpredictable and can occur at any time when you want to move any object, the simulator just freezes and closes.

A few minutes ago, I had the fastest crash ever:

- Loaded the sim.

- Started at the airport.

- Loaded the project.

- Went to a parking to fix its rotation and, as soon I dragged the mouse to rotate the parking, got the usual CTD at the same Offset as I posted before.

On the next sim startup, I got the "60% load freeze" reported in other posts.

On the 3rd startup, the sim loaded, so I tried to rotate that parking again, same CTD. So, basically, I had to restart the sim 3 times, without being able to rotate that parking.

On the 4th startup, I tried a different approach and, instead of trying to rotate the parking with the mouse, I typed a different heading with the object Gizmo. Tried to do this multiple times, until I found the right heading, getting no crashes.

So, it really seems anything related to MOUSE dragging ( whether it's moving or rotation ), triggers the crash. And in fact, after rotating the parking, I added a new node by splitting a path and, as soon as I moved it with the mouse, CTD again...

Hello.

We've just identified and fixed a similar crash that is matching your description.
This CTD was identified through our automatic crash report so I'm optimistic that's the one you were having.
The fix will be available with Sim Update 6.

As for the projected mesh disappearance issue, it will be fixed with WU6.
The rotation/scale bug is still being investigated.

Regards,
Sylvain

Hello,

I'm really sorry for the inconvenience caused by this lack of stability in the Editor. The SU5 and its batch of Xbox-related optimizations provoked several bugs, some of them hard to anticipate considering the fact that we don't work with community packages. And even though some of you tested the update in advance, and made feedbacks, we lacked time to fully investigate and fix the bugs. That leaves us with a set of fixes embedded in the upcoming World Update (it's exceptional, usually we no longer push SDK or code changes outside of the Sim Updates). And indeed the WU6 has reached gold status and won't be edited anymore.

I'm not allowed to share the date for SU6, otherwise I would have, but I'm sure Microsoft will communicate about it soon. And if there should be a hotfix after WU6 (which isn't my call to make...), the fix mentionned by FlyingRaccoon would surely be part of it. But at the moment I actually don't know if we will publish one..

I wanted to report the CTD in the editor that always happens a in few minutes after moving nodes or parking spots, still happens with today's hotfix.

Is this this scheduled for a fix in SU6 ? Editing a scenery now is way slower than it should be since:

- It's required to save after *every* modification, since it's not possible to anticipate when the CTD will strike (it can be in a couple of minutes, but not always)

- All continuous restarts will take time.

Note that, this crash doesn't seem to happen if the airport is very simple, with few parking/taxiways and no jetways.

Here's a link to a mini-dump file:

>http://www.fsdreamteam.com/download/FlightSimulator.exe.26592.dmp.zip

Hi. I have the same issue I assume which I logged with Zendesk. I’ve been redoing a complex airport YMML and have been placing taxiway lines, jetways, stacks of scenery objects and finally, custom materials in tiny aprons as the taxiway parking marks. I’ve now reached a point where if I try to add another:

I can place the apron and add the material but then the entire background of the airport disappears and reveals the underlying satellite default background. If I then rotate or move the apron a fraction (by mouse) it reappears. I can then place it. Sometimes that then causes a CTD. Other times I can compile (just with the one new apron) and the project edit causes a CTD on close. The later CTD although having a successful compile causes the reload of the new version to CTD after selecting to FLY from the World Map - half way through loading.

So basically I cannot add any more parking spot places but I can edit existing scenery and lines