MSFS 2020 Gets Minor Stability Patch — NVIDIA and Xbox Crashes Fixed
A small but important patch for MSFS 2020 addresses startup crashes on NVIDIA hardware, a DirectX 12 crash over New Zealand, and Xbox input issues.
Microsoft has pushed out a minor stability update for Flight Simulator 2020, and while it's not flashy, it fixes some genuinely annoying issues that have been plaguing users.
What's Fixed
The headline fix targets an intermittent crash at startup on NVIDIA hardware — one of those bugs that's particularly frustrating because it doesn't happen every time, making it hard to pin down. That's now resolved.
More specific is a fix for a GPU allocation corruption caused by empty vector shapes. In practical terms, this was causing crashes while flying over the southern island of New Zealand if you had World Update 12 installed and were running DirectX 12. Niche, but if you were affected, you know the pain.
Xbox users get a fix for a crash related to input handling, and addon developers will appreciate the SimConnect fix for a random crash that could occur when data definitions were cleared while still in use.
How to Get It
Just launch MSFS 2020 — the update will apply automatically. Small update, but if you've been dealing with random crashes, this one's worth grabbing.
