Acknowledged
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.
texture and game crash issue Details
Developers frequently update 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 to the NVIDIA Geforce driver (497.09) that was released just a few days ago.
Right now we don't have any fix or workaround for you. If we find something important regarding this Issue we will update this article.
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