Microsoft Flight Simulator Crashes After Updating Nvidia Drivers

One of the most visually stunning games of all time, Microsoft Flight Simulator was released last year. Featuring advanced imagery bundled into a map spanning the length and breadth of the entire Earth, the video game is developed by Asobo Studio and published by Xbox Game Studios.

While players have praised it for its realistic graphics and solid gameplay, the game has had several technical issues spanning from updates causing crashes to mouse cursor randomly disappearing.

In addition to developers frequently updating the game, graphics card companies such as AMD and NVIDIA also update their drivers to improve performance or fix issues pertaining to certain models.

However, it seems that a recent NVIDIA driver update is causing Microsoft Flight Simulator to crash for many. Moreover, those who are able to run the game say ground textures are appearing as blue patches.

Players are frustrated since the game crashes to desktop with any error whatsoever, making it hard for them to describe the problem to the developers. The problem seems to be linked NVIDIA Geforce driver (497.09) that was released just a few days ago.

Thankfully, Microsoft Flight Simulator support said that they are aware of the crashes users are experiencing after updating to NVIDIA Geforce driver (497.09). However, there is no ETA on when a fix is coming.

In the meantime, those affected can either try switching to DX12 if their card supports the feature or simply revert to an older version of NVIDIA Geforce drivers. Nonetheless, we will be keeping an eye out on the matter and update this article when a fix is out.

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Featured image source: Microsoft Flight Simulator

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