My PC Can't even Play - MS Flight Simulator?

JudithWright · January 25, 2023

PC Specs:

CPU: Intel XEON E5-2680

Motherboard: X79 motherboard

RAM: 32GB Reg ECC

GPU: NVIDIA Quadro K620

I know it's not the best GPU in the world, but I have seen many Youtube videos showing games being played (even some at 1080p) with this NVIDIA K620. Here is just one example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvHhHIPE2mA&ab_channel=JaindikeTechReviews

When I try to play Microsoft Flight Simulator, the program crashes and gives this error message:

"Your graphics device has encountered a problem and Microsoft flight simulator will exit. This may be due to graphics card overclocking, overheating, or due to a driver default."

https://imgur.com/a/4joTGu1

Isn't this one of the easiest games to run?

What is likely to be causing this to happen?

Can this be fixed?

Dukesilver27- · January 25, 2023

4 minutes ago, JudithWright said:

Isn't this one of the easiest games to run?

Where do you get this? MS Flight Sim is used for hardware benchmarking due to how taxing it is for modern hardware.

And I doubt that GPU is the only problem here, your CPU is also a server CPU, which notoriously isn't great for gaming. Could also be GPU drivers issue, I'm no server hardware enthusiast, but I know this much.

matt0725 · January 25, 2023

like Duke said, unless you mean an older version of flight sim, the newest one is extremely demanding. i wouldn't expect to run it at all on your hardware, regardless of what others may have been able to cobble together.

ApolloX75 · January 25, 2023

I wouldn't even think to run Flight Sim on a Kepler-based GPU. Damn, 2GB and DDR3 at that?

The CPU, ok, I can see it working for now but that GPU barely supports DX12. And it's nVidia's DX12-ish version, which means it's really a DX11 card that can run some parts of DX12, that's probably why it's crashing out. Flight Sim does not play well with old hardware, I've seen this a lot with the Fermi cards in my collection.

400s, 500s and some 700 series cards all had this flaw. As did their Quadro counterparts.

BlueChinchillaEatingDorito · January 25, 2023

2 hours ago, Dukesilver27- said:

Where do you get this? MS Flight Sim is used for hardware benchmarking due to how taxing it is for modern hardware.

And I doubt that GPU is the only problem here, your CPU is also a server CPU, which notoriously isn't great for gaming. Could also be GPU drivers issue, I'm no server hardware enthusiast, but I know this much.

Considering the K620 is from 2014 based on a GTX 750 essentially... I'm not surprised it wouldn't run. And even if it did launch, I would be expecting single digit frame rates.

3 hours ago, JudithWright said:

PC Specs:

CPU: Intel XEON E5-2680

Motherboard: X79 motherboard

RAM: 32GB Reg ECC

GPU: NVIDIA Quadro K620

I know it's not the best GPU in the world, but I have seen many Youtube videos showing games being played (even some at 1080p) with this NVIDIA K620. Here is just one example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvHhHIPE2mA&ab_channel=JaindikeTechReviews

When I try to play Microsoft Flight Simulator, the program crashes and gives this error message:

"Your graphics device has encountered a problem and Microsoft flight simulator will exit. This may be due to graphics card overclocking, overheating, or due to a driver default."

https://imgur.com/a/4joTGu1

Isn't this one of the easiest games to run?

What is likely to be causing this to happen?

Can this be fixed?

You don't have to be technical to extrapolate that if a K620 can only push out 25 frames in PUBG while looking like a game truly out of the late 2000s...