diff --git a/pySDC/implementations/problem_classes/generic_spectral.py b/pySDC/implementations/problem_classes/generic_spectral.py
index ec5dea8413..0ff7b25551 100644
--- a/pySDC/implementations/problem_classes/generic_spectral.py
+++ b/pySDC/implementations/problem_classes/generic_spectral.py
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ def processSolutionForOutput(self, u):
         if self.spectral.useGPU:
             u = u.get()
 
-        return u.view(np.ndarray)
+        return np.ascontiguousarray(u.view(np.ndarray))
 
 
 def compute_residual_DAE(self, stage=''):