PSA - Update your nvidia driver

[Colemanuk82 11]

For the last 3-4 weeks ive been having regular crashes to desktop making the game unplayable!!!

I took a small break and managed to get it working today.             

driver version that you want is -497.29

If you have a nvidia graphics card make sure you're up to date.

 

[Bobsk8 12,820]

36 minutes ago, Colemanuk82 said:

For the last 3-4 weeks ive been having regular crashes to desktop making the game unplayable!!!

I took a small break and managed to get it working today.             

driver version that you want is -497.29

If you have a nvidia graphics card make sure you're up to date.

 

If I have a driver that works, I don't mess with it. never have driver issues. 

[Tuskin38 6,597]

18 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

If I have a driver that works, I don't mess with it. never have driver issues. 

Until there's a security issue and you should update.

Also newer drivers can also improve FPS sometimes.

Edited December 29, 2021 by Tuskin38

[Ixoye 1,828]

5 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

Also newer drivers can also improve FPS.

Yea sure 😄

[MSFLYER5856 76]

Does -497.29 mention MSFS in the release notes ?

In the 40 yrs I've been gaming, I don't recall a driver update ever enhancing a game I was playing anymore then tech support telling me to defrag my drive and call them back so I would get a different tech support agent.

[Colemanuk82 11]

39 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

If I have a driver that works, I don't mess with it. never have driver issues. 

Thats great but if you play any new games other than msfs then you don't have much of a choice...

It's kind of like staying on windows 7 ,but you'll have to update sometime -unless you never want anything new

Edited December 29, 2021 by Colemanuk82

[psolk 3,053]

12 minutes ago, MSFLYER5856 said:

Does -497.29 mention MSFS in the release notes ?

In the 40 yrs I've been gaming, I don't recall a driver update ever enhancing a game I was playing anymore then tech support telling me to defrag my drive and call them back so I would get a different tech support agent.

One of the latest driver versions not sure if it is the latest did have a few MSFS specific items called out in the release notes...  Maybe 496.76 or something so I would believe anything MSFS specific in those is included. 

[Tuskin38 6,597]

20 minutes ago, MSFLYER5856 said:

Does -497.29 mention MSFS in the release notes ?

Yes. The driver came out last monday, and I haven't had a crash since updating to it.

https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/497.29/497.29-win11-win10-release-notes.pdf

Fixed Issues in this Release
 [Microsoft Flight Simulator]: The game may crash to the desktop during gameplay. [3454519]
 [Microsoft Flight Simulator]: Purple/blue artifacts appear on ground textures in the game.
[3454530]

Edited December 29, 2021 by Tuskin38

[odourboy 1,290]

4 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

Yes. The driver came out last monday, and I haven't had a crash since updating to it.

https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/497.29/497.29-win11-win10-release-notes.pdf

Fixed Issues in this Release
 [Microsoft Flight Simulator]: The game may crash to the desktop during gameplay. [3454519]
 [Microsoft Flight Simulator]: Purple/blue artifacts appear on ground textures in the game.
[3454530]

Do you recall what the crash was? I've been having intermittent ntldll.dll crashes with MSFS that I can't get a handle on.

[Tuskin38 6,597]

Just now, odourboy said:

Do you recall what the crash was? I've been having intermittent ntldll.dll crashes with MSFS that I can't get a handle on.

It would just crash almost instantly once you got past the loading screen and into a flight. Main menu worked fine.

[odourboy 1,290]

2 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

It would just crash almost instantly once you got past the loading screen and into a flight. Main menu worked fine.

My crashes are far more sporadic but no harm in trying the new driver. Cheers!

[RXP 2,338]

FWIW: I'm using 497.09 which I find better than 497.29 for VR. Yesterday I had FS2020 systematically crashing every time when done with the loading screen, but I found the reason and the cure: don't set Nvidia CPL Texture LOD to "Allow" but to "Clamp" and this solved it for me (I wanted to try something with Texture LOD so this was the only change I made).

 

[CarlosF 1,243]

I'm on 471.96 with outstanding results, in my case, no need for an update, another reason is that my gtx is a 1070 and current drivers are most likely optimized for the latest iterations of the GTX. 

Edited December 30, 2021 by CarlosF

[flightyjoe 45]

I am on 457.30 as i read somewhere this was best for MSFS.

I guess i am way behind, BTW works great with all the games i play.

But seriously am i too far behind with that one?

rtx 2070.

[Ixoye 1,828]

4 hours ago, flightyjoe said:

I am on 457.30 as i read somewhere this was best for MSFS.

I guess i am way behind, BTW works great with all the games i play.

But seriously am i too far behind with that one?

rtx 2070.

I use the same driver, and it works flawless on my system, I will not change until I upgrade my graphics card.