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P3D crashes when the sun sets or rises in the sim

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Hello all,

I have a GTX 650Ti. I have set an fps limit of 30 and the GPU only utilises about 35-40% of the memory. I was flying the PMDG 777 from Heathrow to Shanghai when about 5 hours into the sim, the sun starts to set. When it comes to the sun setting or rising in the sim, the graphics card just crashes with the "DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG". I noticed that I only get this message when the GPU utilises 100% of the memory for a long period of time but during sunset, the GPU isn't using 100% of the memory.

I hope this isn't too vague but any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, I don't have settings put on max, they're usually set around the medium/low setting.

I know on my machine if I have cloud shadows on during dawn/dusk, it drags down the fps.  Maybe your rig is crashing instead of just slowing down like mine does.

Rhett

7800X3D 96 GB G.Skill Flare  Gigabyte 4090  Crucial P5 Plus 2TB

Dusk and dawn transitions cause issues with the ESP based (FSX, FSX:SE, PREPAR3D) sims.  It is known by LM, hopefully one day they will fix it.

https://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6312&t=129316&sid=80c02ce7ac1050aa1eab5c9ea7a3df84&start=15

https://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=129076

 

 

\Robert Hamlich/

 

11 hours ago, HUSSAR said:

Dusk and dawn transitions cause issues with the ESP based (FSX, FSX:SE, PREPAR3D) sims.  It is known by LM, hopefully one day they will fix it.

I'm putting over a hundred hours a month on my P3dv4 machine (only use PMDG aircraft) and probably experience 30 sunrise/sunsets a month  and have never had a failure during these time periods. My  card is a 1070 so that may be the difference.  Technology changes from card generation to generation are tremendous and the latest graphic drivers make a big difference.   When I was running FSX I never had this experience either.  

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18 minutes ago, Bluestar said:

I'm putting over a hundred hours a month on my P3dv4 machine (only use PMDG aircraft) and probably experience 30 sunrise/sunsets a month  and have never had a failure during these time periods. My  card is a 1070 so that may be the difference.  Technology changes from card generation to generation are tremendous and the latest graphic drivers make a big difference.   When I was running FSX I never had this experience either.  

I never had any graphics problem in FSX in related to sunrises/sunsets. It only seems to be affected in P3D. It probably is only because of my old graphics card and I am in need of an upgrade.

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