Markg55 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 Ok this is weird. My main PC that I use for MSFS was a I7-9700F with a Super GTX2060 and 48 gigs of ram. Worked great. I decided to upgrade the CPU to a I9-9700k. That machine rocks. I bought a new motherboard, 32 GB ram SSD for the I7-9700. Had a AMD RTX-870 8gb card. So i put it together. Loaded MSFS and ran it. Did a pretty dam good job of running it.. After 10 mins or so ...........poof PC shuts down. It did this 3 times before I decided to install X-Plane and Prepar3d 4.5 and see if these caused the same scenario. They did not cause any issues whatsoever. Performed 3 1 hour flights in both I am guessing that the CPU cooler might not be up to the task of MSFS as it seems kind of cheesy. It came off the original I5- 3rd gen Mobo. I ordered a better CPU cooler. We'll see. I have seen on the Inner-Webs that MSFS has caused some PC shutting down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScratchRapsu Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 Yes, sounds a lot like overheating issue. I would download a hardware monitor software, like openhardwaremonitor, cpuid etc. if you have not allready and check all temperatures to confirm. It could also be power related issue, so I suggest to pinpoint the exact problem before buying new hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markg55 Posted October 11, 2020 Author Share Posted October 11, 2020 I meant to say an "AMD RX-580 8 gb card" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uggenstu2 Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 My MSFS 2020 doesn't shut down the PC, but it does crash during loading, approximately 100% of the time. I know this is a huge programming project, but it is still very disappointing that there isn't a "fall back" provision that allows the software to run, with some limitations, under Win10Pro 2004. I am running an I5-4690K CPU@3.50GHz with 32 GB installed RAM and 64-bit operating system. The mobo has a modest Intel HD Graphics4600 and the add-on graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce GT 640. I can see why this hardware doesn't run MSFS 2020 well, but why no "limited" functionality? I appreciate the warning during loading: "Your computer does not meet the minimum requirements. As a result, you may experience errors during the game." However, it would be most helpful to know what the shortfall is in my computer system, short of buying a complete new system. Glad to have MSFSX as a fallback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markg55 Posted October 14, 2020 Author Share Posted October 14, 2020 New CPU cooler installed. Two hour flight in MSFS and PC didn't shut down. The Old Cheesy CPU fan now in the garbage. All is well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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