Hello mrogelthorpe and Goran_M,
mrogelthorpe said:
"...the sim will freeze up for 10-15 seconds and then eventually pick back up. The last time this happened to me, the visuals were able to recover, but the sound dropped out completely"
"...then got a loud buzzing/feedback sound on the speakers, visuals picked back up, but the sound had dropped out completely"
I've been having the exact same problem, same behaviour as described above for a while now. So after some unsuccessful trials... I decided to go the long way:
I reinstalled Windows 10 (!), then X-Plane, then the TBM-900. That's all. No other plugins, no scenery/airport/library packages, no HD Mesh, no AI, no weather, and... no Ortho4XP tiles.
The problem IS still happening. And by looking at the times in the log.txt file, I can tell that it always happens when XPlane is loading some scenery (entry of the type: I/SCN: DSF load time:).
I have documented the last issue occurrence I had, and the LOG.TXT file is attached as well as the DATA.TXT that you can ask XPLANE to generate (this file is actually converted to DataE51.xlsx).
This time I was climbing out of Bagdad (E51), AZ (day time, no weather) when suddenly the buzzing sound started at around 14:40:45 (as noted from my phone's clock) and then no sound at all (inside or outside the aircraft) a second later. You'll be able to see the fps dropping in the DATA file.
A look at the LOG file confirms that there is some scenery loading at this moment. The sim did not crash and the fps recovered but without any sound. I quit the flight just a few minutes later.
FYI I have noticed in some other problematic flights that the sound was sometimes:
1- redirected to "VA32AQ NVIDIA High Definition Audio" (an audio channel via the HDMI cable to the built-in speaker in my monitor) or,
2- redirected to "Realtek Digital Output" (in which case I could not hear anything), or
3- The default audio output "Realtek Audio Speakers" was JUST GONE, not existing anymore, and a reboot was required to get it back!
I have never had issues like that with any other aircrafts (payware or not), so I'm pretty sure there is something with this one...
mrogelthorpe, my motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-H270-HD3; I'm wondering what's yours?
Surely hope you guys can help, thanks very much!
DataE51.xlsx
Log.txt