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My son is 13 and has a gaming PC and I’d like to upgrade it for Xmas and would appreciate your thoughts on the right spec. We’ve got a friendly PC Shop that will do it but I’d like to get the experts opinions on here to help me decide on direction of travel. His current spec is:

Mother board is the b560m pro-VDH WIFI (MS-7d18)
GPU is the radeon RX 6700 XT
11th gen Intel Core i5
32gb RAM

It stalls loading Flight Sim and FC25 but Fortnite runs fine and he gets good speeds / low ping.

Any help or guidance appreciated.
 
Hi and welcome to forums.

Spec wise that sounds pretty decent, the only bit we don't know is what storage device has the PC got?

If it's an older Sata SSD or even a hard drive that could be an issue. But if it already has an NVME drive then it sounds like a configuration or software issue.
 
Thank you.

Flight sim just stalls on start up. I’ve read around and it seems to happen for a number of reasons but can’t nail it down.

Budget is circa £300 but more if we can get a decent deal.
 
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Flight sim just stalls on start up. I’ve read around and it seems to happen for a number of reasons but can’t nail it down.
Can you be a bit more descriptive, what does stall mean exactly? Do you get an error message? Does it crash? Which version of Flight Sim is it? I heard that the latest one is having big problems getting people into it because they underestimated how many people would want to play it simultaneously (there was an article on tomshardware I read a day or two ago).
 
your computer should be fast enough to run msfs
sounds like something has corrupted. software errors are a lot harder to troubleshoot without access to the system in question
 
Can you be a bit more descriptive, what does stall mean exactly? Do you get an error message? Does it crash? Which version of Flight Sim is it? I heard that the latest one is having big problems getting people into it because they underestimated how many people would want to play it simultaneously (there was an article on tomshardware I read a day or two ago).
When you go to open the programme it starts to boot up but then stalls and displays a black screen with a small turning circle. Sometimes it does get past this and to the first Home Screen, but then we get a Directx 11 error. It’s so frustrating!
 
If these issues are mainly with the newly released Flight Sim, I've heard more than one horror story about the state of the game.

Make sure Windows and your GPU drivers are fully up to date.
 
6700xt will run msfs2020 fine.. am assuming that's what your running as 2024 is only just release. Quick scan and it seems to be a fairly common problem with 6700xt's...on boot up it crashes and black screens..try below as that solved for one person
seems to be a few things that solved issues, but below seem to be a couple that crop up and seem to work

Solved at last!! I had to remove the AppData folder "Microsoft Flight Simulator" from my C:\Users\myname\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator and now it launched without crashing.
The only solution to fix my game from crashing is installing English voice in the speech settings, no other solution with game integrity or reinstalling won't help. The game relies on speech synthesis, so I think the game won't work if the basic language is not installed. That's crazy how many people have startup crashes by this, and Microsoft didn't fix this or ether provide a tutorial for this



Select the Start button, then select Settings > Time & Language
Go to Speech > Manage Voice
Click on + Add voices
In the search bar type "English"
Install the English (United States) Language Pack
below was someone that installed win 11 and started crashing every time openned
I solved this problem. In my case I had to start the game in another pc(I used my friend pc) with the same Xbox account( you don’t need to install the full game but only the few GBs that allows you to open the game. once done I tried with my pc and it has always worked perfectly
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in the end you just may have to go through a whole load of options


try these methods to fix the problem

1. Verify the integrity of game files

Go to your Steam library. Right-click Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and select Properties.
Navigate to the LOCAL FILES tab and click VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME CACHE…. Then wait for the progress bar to finish
Launch Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and test your flight

2. Update your graphics driver
Go to your manufacturer's site and download the Letes GPU driver and install it


3. Unplug Peripherals
It can enhance the gaming experience when the gaming hardware is compatible with the game.
Some players have reported that plugging two or more peripherals causes the game to crash even on startup.

So if you're using gears like controllers, joysticks, and forks, try unplugging them. If the crash disappears, you can fix the problem by disabling the peripherals one by one.

However, if you're only using a mouse and keyboard and are still experiencing crashing issues, skip to the next fix below.

4. Change your power plan

Press the Windows logo key and R at the same time on your keyboard to bring up the Run box. Type or paste the Microsoft.PowerOptions control/name and click OK
In the window that opens, select High Performance and click Change plan settings.
Click the Turn off screen drop-down list and select Never. Then click Save changes

5. Perform a clean boot in Windows
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/how-t...

6. Delete Rolling Cache
Go to this path and delete the cache folder, replace "xxxxx" with your PC name

C:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Local\FlightSimulator

Start Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and see if the issue is resolved
Now check if the game crashes on startup
 
by what I'm reading above multi threads, it's MSFS, not your pc. I wouldn't be upgrading pc because msfs is crashing..the pc isn't too bad and you'll have to spend a lot more than £400 to get a new mobo/cpu/ram/gpu to have a major uplift in ggaming performance

personally, 1st thing I'd try is uninstall the game completely, and reinstall...beginning to have a memory of having to do thsat on mine tbh
 
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