Warning: Your graphics device has encountered a problem


Even at startscrenn after a few minutes being inactive…

Later same flight until now without problems (accept of icing :grimacing: )- just had emtying rolling cache and index files.

But with medium setting, I better dont go to high end (what was possible befor SU9)

Same issue here - this popup message on my system shows up the first time in this beta and was never ever seen in MSFS before SU10 beta… The occurence is quite high as it could happen everytime, at least once in every session…

To be fair, it didn’t exist before the .18 build of the beta, which is why you never saw it.

In my case HAGs was on. Now I ve switched it off. Will see if it prevent getting the error message. And I ve got this message from my windows notification (sorry its in german):


It means in English: Access to the graphics hardware has been blocked for the Flightsimultaor application. (???)

See, this is my problem with this. If your settings were high/ultra etc before, without any issues (assuming you didn’t have any) then why should you, or anyone else be forced to downgrade graphics settings because of something the developer has mucked up? That’s ridiculous.

After switching off HAG I expierence the error again when flying in New York with high end settings. Even the situation/flight was paused…

So - it is a matter of ASOBOs programming. There is now way to avoid is with windows settings or GPU settingor even MSFS Settings.

It has to be fixed by Asobo.

Hopefully it will. As whatever has been done here seems to have ruined the sim for a fair few people.

I guess tht it is ruined not only for a few people as many people seems to have that issue. And it seems one reason for delaying SU10 official. But I’m only speculating…We will hope they will fix it, I’m finished with that thing as Ive tried anything to optimize my system. Wasted time.

Had it today for the first time, made a restart of Win and on the 2nd startup all worked well…MS Store Version on my side. Hope it gets fixed.

I was happy too often too early, unfortunately the error occurs sporadically.

…and it works…

I give a last try with going to admin modus under same conditions. Add: But that does not help avoiding this error! Until now it works with good frames and without CTD all add ons on. But as a said the error message comes sporadically but frequently. And I know in a beta we should not use add ons. While I also have had this error message without mods. But the more complex the scenery or the planes or the higher the graphic settings the more often this error CTD appears.


Yes, you are absolutely right. Sorry for being not completely correct!


and end of flight… over…

What means that?

Access to the graphics hardware has been blocked for the Flightsimultaor application.

Your HAGs setting … I suggest you either turn it off or on but do not block it

Also report this to Zendesk, it shouldn’t happen

did you do a windows restart after switching HAGS off ?

PS: these manual setting for a app “high performance” is and should not necessary for a normal pc. User fiddle to much with the settings :wink:

I am using AMD RX5600XT and only once since 1.27.21.0, a dialog appeared while playing music in the background.

Also, I have had a few instances where it hung with a “beep” sound while playing Youtube using Firefox in the background, although no dialog appeared. sound when playing Youtube using Firefox in the background.

I have never had hangs with versions prior to 1.27.21.0, but I remember that I had a similar hang with red dead redemption 2 and Ark, and could not start them no matter what I did.

At that time it was the sound driver that was causing the hang up because it could not recognize the device (graphics card), but after the msfs dialog appeared, the device was not recognized in the same way, so I think it has something to do with the communication with the device driver as well.

I also tried changing the registry at that time, but it did not fix the problem. In the end, I deleted the RX5600XT sound driver and switched to the onboard sound device, and the hangs stopped.

But this time, msfs didn’t hang up after that…

My native language is not English, translated at DeepL

This approach is not work for 1.27.21.0

Nor is it an acceptable workaround…