Warning: Your graphics device has encountered a problem

not 99%, a good percentage of simmers are using latest hardware the tech market offers, and more than that, MS Flight Simulator is one of the reasons why ppl should upgrade to the latest hardware available. and even more, some few only purchase new setups just to try the sim, & iam one of them, because its a game changer in the software industry.

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seems there are also reports for “today” in “memory could not read” topic
 may be it really relates together, and that may also another “pro” for “possible connection/server issues”.

I am repeatedly suffering by this issue on Windows 10. It is after the latest update of MSFS.

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Same for me. It must be serverrelated. Today I get it all the time.
This Thursday (or if it was Wednesday) it ran just fine.

Hope this is due to bug-testing frÄn MS//Asobo that they are trying to get this message to appear


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I never got the error popup and also not the memory could not read error. But today I got my first connection lost message. It reconnected directly without issues, but just wanted to mentioned it because there is one theory here, that the servers are possible involved and seemingly some new reports in both topics.

I only get the message about error en ountered. Get no out of memory-message. This Thursday I got the connection lost message two times, but my flights was not disrupted.

I have experienced the graphics device error on several sceneries mostly the new KLAX when I approach near Gate 55 but now its spreading to other sceneries and now in flight had it 5 times today. I think Asobo need to find this bug and fix it as the sim seems unplayable for a great many of us.

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i purchased the sim before almost 3 weeks, and didn’t have the chance to try it in an appropriate way yet! as SU10 was only days after the purchase, LOL.

It sure is
I am thinking it must be serverrelated. Could be a certain cluster within their servers that hosts specific accounts or something


I’ve been saying for some time that peaks in the incidence of the CTDs do appear to coincide with peaks in server demands, downloading new updates for example.

However, if these issues are server-related, the client code should still be able to cope and should not CTD as a result. In other words, fixing the server issues might reduce the incidence of these CTD, maybe to close to zero, but until the errant client code is also fixed, there will always be a chance of a recurrence.

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After weeks of having having the crash issue I followed the guide and the game isnt crashing on the start menu and I was finally able to complete a flight. Thank you for posting the guide. I recommend everyone with issues still to give it a shot. I didnt think it was going to work but it did.

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So
 where’s this bug in the latest development update? Slide 3 claims the highest-voted bug in the last three months regards the haze layer and has only 77 votes. Meanwhile, this thread with 216 votes doesn’t even appear at all, yet total nothingburgers like “the moon isn’t always the right way up” get listed with as little as 20-25 votes.

Can someone please explain why we’re not even acknowledged in the dev update published just three days ago, when this thread now has close to a thousand posts in the last month?

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Gotcha, thanks for the confirmation. Might I gently suggest if a bug has to exist for more than three months to be mentioned in that list, perhaps the name of that snapshot could be changed (or a footnote added) to reflect that, as it’s very non-obvious? Clearly, not by yourself, I’m not suggesting you have access, just that the feedback could be passed along.

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Can help the gpu & the system perform better by optimizing performance, but this wont be considered a long-term solution due to the instability that the sim currently has.

& i dont see a point of uninstalling nvidia experience, since you can control what settings it changes.

It’s interesting that you say that. I wasn’t flying near KLAX, but I had just reinstalled the default scenery for it. I had previously uninstalled it so it wouldn’t interfere with a 3rd party one, but I no longer use 3rd party sceneries. I had forgotten it was disabled until this weekend, and I hadn’t had any CTD until this weekend.

My crash didn’t happen until an hour into my flight, so I’m not motivated to experiment with it.

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More than three months with this bug?!? That is a NO GO item!

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if the error is fixed in 3months Asobo but been fast.
The error memory could not be read has not been repaired for 7 months

My issue is even stranger, until recently all fine but now I get the Graphics Device error as soon as I move my mouse. The game loads fine into the main menu, as soon as I move my mouse, bang
popup error. Tried in Safe Mode and exactly the same issue.

Why not? Who am I to doubt the recommendations of a real pilot?

I am glad that you tried it and that it worked!

Don’t know if this is of any help put parts of my experiences are:
-I have never flown a plane sice I bought the Sim in eary september
-I get the “graphics device has encountered
” in loadup screen before main menu always
-I did a lot what was mentioned: reinstalling the game, moving it to SSD, reinstaled and/or switched to studio driver and back to game ready driver, force started it trough steam in DX11 and DX12, Toggeled Windows Performance settings, Changed Nvidia Control Settings, reset graphic cards firmware, renewed the thermal paste and combinations of the mentioned above and more

-then i figured to instead of using my “new” (but preowned) GTX1070 founders revert my sytem back to my old GTX970 and I coudn’t belive my eyes but the Sim was running for the first time. I was able to play the tutorials but on a custom flight it wold always crash but without no warning prompt.

But since I’m also rocking a new msi WQHD 1440p 165hz Monitor I ofcourse went back to the GTX1070 for all the other games and demand that the Studio fixes the problem which shouldnt be my system as from what I read here.

Today i ran afterburner and right before the prompt pops up my GPU spikes to 100% in loading screen. Why is the game doing that to the gtx1070 but not the gtx 970. Doesn’t make sense.

UNPLAYABLE ALWAYS UNFORTUNATELEY

UPDATE: It fully runs now without any issues after I upgraded to a RTX3070. Something about my i7 6700k + my gtx 1070 founders turned the game off.

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