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I receive this message after clicking on any play button( ie. Instant Play) in DCS World v1.2: "DCS World Has Stopped Working" crash to desktop. I have no modules loaded in DCS World. My independent version of DCS Blackshark v1 works great on my VISTA 64 OS. I repaired/updated C++ redist. for both 64 and 32.

 

I'm bummed :( I was ready to buy BS2 and I will as soon as this problem is resolved.

 

Thanks for the help in advance.

 

Andre

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Hi aeross60

Can you give more details on the CTD , have you check for dcs crash logs, you

can find them in c:\users\yourname\savedgames\dcs\logs, maybe you check

the windows eventlogs. just click start-> Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Administrative Tools ->event viewer -> windows logs -> applications

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Thanks Hawk,

 

The LOG showed it failed due to a resolution change. I matched resolutions and it now works. Thanks again.

 

Andre

 

 

 

UPDATE: Do I need to Reinstall DCS World again (AS ADMINISTRATOR this time) to be able to run DCS in 1080 by 720 resolution?


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  • 1 year later...

Hi all I got this today will trying to play DCS World BS 2 standalone......if you can help it would be greatly appreciated. Sometimes in campaign missions I get the crash to debriefing room or CTD saying something to the affect that this program(DCS World) closed due to...I forget the rest...but it normaly crashes when I press a key on keyboard or move the throttle and or rudder on the joystick. Here is the file I hope I did this right :

Log Name: Application

Source: Application Error

Date: 12/12/2013 12:52:02 AM

Event ID: 1000

Task Category: (100)

Level: Error

Keywords: Classic

User: N/A

Computer: MICHAEL-PC

Description:

Faulting application name: dcs.exe, version: 1.2.6.20768, time stamp: 0x528babc0

Faulting module name: Weather.dll, version: 1.2.6.20768, time stamp: 0x528ba09d

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x000000000000865c

Faulting process id: 0x1688

Faulting application start time: 0x01cef6faf23052f8

Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin\dcs.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin\Weather.dll

Report Id: 857c845d-62f1-11e3-8c2a-902b34d32751

Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

<System>

<Provider Name="Application Error" />

<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>

<Level>2</Level>

<Task>100</Task>

<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-12-12T05:52:02.000000000Z" />

<EventRecordID>17256</EventRecordID>

<Channel>Application</Channel>

<Computer>MICHAEL-PC</Computer>

<Security />

</System>

<EventData>

<Data>dcs.exe</Data>

<Data>1.2.6.20768</Data>

<Data>528babc0</Data>

<Data>Weather.dll</Data>

<Data>1.2.6.20768</Data>

<Data>528ba09d</Data>

<Data>c0000005</Data>

<Data>000000000000865c</Data>

<Data>1688</Data>

<Data>01cef6faf23052f8</Data>

<Data>C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin\dcs.exe</Data>

<Data>C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin\Weather.dll</Data>

<Data>857c845d-62f1-11e3-8c2a-902b34d32751</Data>

</EventData>

</Event>

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Again Mike turn off Dynamic Weather. and all will be fine.

This was a Boutique Builder iBuypower rig. Until I got the tinker bug again i7 920 @3.6Mhz 12Gig Corsair XMS3 ram 1600 Nvidia 760 SLi w/4Gig DDR5 Ram Intel 310 SSD HDD 160 Gb + Western Digital 4Terabyte HDD Creative SB X-Fi HD Audio Logitech X-530 5.1 Surround Speaker System Dual Acer 32"Monitors. PSU 1200 w Thermaltake Win10 64Bit.

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  • 10 months later...

Hi, guys!

 

When I run the DCS world for about 13 hours then I get the DCS world has stopped working message as well. I deleted the DCS world, re-installed DCS world, and now I'm running the DCS world with the graphic settings at medium. Thanks!

 

Cheers,

Vincent

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Hi all and merry Christmas!

 

I am posting here because for the last 4-5 months since a specific update (now unable to remember which one) I have the same problem to OP. Loading DCS World and in 10% crashing to desktop. Now I saw that all of the modules require at least 6GB RAM to run. I have only 4GB ram and until the update I spoke of above, the game was running almost fine. Could this be the problem not allowing me to run the game at all? And if yes, why did you change the min requirements and made the game unplayable for so many of us who when they bought the modules didn't have any problem with their systems spec?

 

An additional question which is a bit off-topic. If I use the registry key to delete all activation data, should I run seperate keys for every module and do I lose an activation or not?

 

Thanks in advance for any reply. Regards.


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Hi all and merry Christmas!

 

why did you change the min requirements and made the game unplayable for so many of us who when they bought the modules didn't have any problem with their systems spec?

 

 

Because the world moves on, with or without us it will continue to revolve around the sun. Get on board or not. It's up to U. sounds a bit mean but it is the truth of it.

This was a Boutique Builder iBuypower rig. Until I got the tinker bug again i7 920 @3.6Mhz 12Gig Corsair XMS3 ram 1600 Nvidia 760 SLi w/4Gig DDR5 Ram Intel 310 SSD HDD 160 Gb + Western Digital 4Terabyte HDD Creative SB X-Fi HD Audio Logitech X-530 5.1 Surround Speaker System Dual Acer 32"Monitors. PSU 1200 w Thermaltake Win10 64Bit.

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Because the world moves on, with or without us it will continue to revolve around the sun. Get on board or not. It's up to U. sounds a bit mean but it is the truth of it.

 

Be well my friend. As some guys replied to me in steam forums (unofficial of course), change was done since 2013, so if this happened, I should get a message about my memory not enough so as to be sure what is the problem.

 

And here is the log of the last crash 2 days ago

 

# C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at DFCD2C96 00:00000000

00000000 00000000 0000:00000000

DFCD2C96 001AE8B0 0000:00000000 ?control@ccEkranIndicator@cockpit@@UEAAXXZ()+16

DFD2C612 001AE8E0 0000:00000000 ?start@indicators_keeper@cockpit@@QEAAXXZ()+52

DFD2CACC 001AE910 0000:00000000 ?start@ccCockpitContext@cockpit@@QEAAXXZ()+2C

DFD2AE00 001AE950 0000:00000000 ?loadCustom@Clickable@cockpit@@IEAAXAEBV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@@Z()+1630

3FEC1782 001AEA30 0000:00000000

3FF38080 001AEA90 0000:00000000

3FF9454B 001AEB10 0000:00000000

3FFC9636 001AEB60 0000:00000000

3FF93866 001AEB90 0000:00000000

3FF8F08F 001AEBC0 0000:00000000

3FF93553 001AEBF0 0000:00000000

3FF930BF 001AEC80 0000:00000000

E1EB7A8F 001AECC0 0000:00000000 ?NextEvent@wWakeupTime@@UEAAXXZ()+2F

E3648721 001AED50 0000:00000000

E3648BEA 001AEDA0 0000:00000000

3FFF3142 001AEED0 0000:00000000

3FFF5713 001AF1C0 0000:00000000

3FFEE132 001AF420 0000:00000000

E36D523A 001AF450 0000:00000000 ?sendOutputSymbol_@FSM@Common@@AEAAXI@Z()+2A

E36D5EB5 001AF480 0000:00000000 ?enterToState_@FSM@Common@@AEAAXI@Z()+B5

E36D7181 001AF4B0 0000:00000000 ?onSymbol_@FSM@Common@@AEAAXI@Z()+1B1

E36D726E 001AF500 0000:00000000 ?checkSymbolsQueue@FSM@Common@@QEAAXXZ()+AE

3FFF1EC0 001AF560 0000:00000000

40009544 001AF590 0000:00000000

40009439 001AF5F0 0000:00000000

40090998 001AF660 0000:00000000

40091DD8 001AFB50 0000:00000000

400947BF 001AFC00 0000:00000000

776AF34D 001AFC30 0001:0001E34D C:\Windows\system32\kernel32.dll BaseThreadInitThunk()+D

777E2CA1 001AFC80 0001:00031CA1 C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll RtlUserThreadStart()+21


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Thanks for bothering with my problems Flagrum. Much appreciated!

 

1) Still having 4GB RAM, so not up to minimum requiremements

2) I have seen people who run DCS having 4BG Ram and all updates installed

3) Why the error doesn't say what is the problem, not even a specific code of error to translate? Even after posting the log, nobody answered to what is causing the crash at 10% of loading procedure.

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I fear, most people really stopped bothering because of 1). It is basically pure luck that DCS runs in this case ("2)"). You can try to lower all settings you can lower (detail level, screen resolution, etc. - everything that might reduce the memry usage) - maybe it might help. Try to run as little other programs as possible when starting DCS - no utility programs that run in the background (i.e. as little icons as possible in the system tray!) and ofc no other running applications (email programs, browser, etc.). You might even have to revert to an earlier version of DCS.

 

Regarding point 3)

Because it is difficult to tell. Actually it does say what the problem is: "C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at DFCD2C96 00:00000000". That means, the program has tried to access memory that did not "belong" to the program. This can have many (like trillions) of reasons - from silly simple programming errors over complicated and rare cases that normally never should occur. Believe it or not, but "having not enough memory" is rather at the more complicated end of reasons that can result in such errors. The thing is, under windows you almost never run really out of memory. The operating system usually takes care that a program can use memory when it asks for it - and if it has to suspend other programs temporarily, saving it's memory to the hard disk, and allowing your program to use that memory ... temporarily. And then there are other cases, where this will not work - because the way the memory is to be used (i.e. stuff that the graphics card needs often can not be redirected to or from the hard disk - because that is too slow)

 

Therefore it is difficult for any program to determine if there will be "enough" memory for it to run when it is started. Because it just "depends". And now, when all physically installed memory and the virtual memory on the hard drive is all clogged up, a tiny programming oversight (those dreaded "should never occur"-errors) can then finally crash your program. For example, it needs just a few bytes more to store the value of a variable - and just before, it was no problem to allocate several megabytes - and now windows suddenly and "out of the blue" says, sorry, can't do that! But the program, while not anticipating this, just continues, ignoring windows, and tries to work with that variable ... with that few bytes of memory ... that windows has not given to the program ... and when it accesses it, that ACCESS VIOLATION occurs - the windows way to say "YOU! CAN! NOT! PASS!".

 

tl;dr: it is COMPLICATED. ;o)

 

edit:

about downgrading your DCS instalation to a previous version: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=114030


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Thanks again for replying my friend. I can get the difficulty of error translation in practically explaining what exactly is the reason for the crash. I just wonder why isn't there any specific error about my RAM if it is low to run DCS.

Because it is ... complicated.

 

The devs could implement a check to ensure that a certain amount of memory is available. But that would restrict them and their customers. "6GB minimum" is just a simplification. Really relevant is the amount of free, usable memory. But that, again, "depends". Two PCs with the same amount of RAM installed will differ greatly in the amount of free RAM that DCS can use. Windows itself occupies a good amount of RAM, depending on what drivers are loaded, what background tasks are running, how long it is running, etc. So any estimation for a safe bet on how much free RAM their program needs would have to be conservative. Maybe something like "6GB minimum (physically installed) = 4GB free RAM". That way users with 16GB RAM could still only use those 4GB - because the devs want to be on the safe side. Unsatisfactory, isn't it?

 

That is the downside - if we want flexibility, there is some risk that certain system configs can't handle that flexibility ...

 

The problem here, why it is so difficult to just let DCS just report "Sorry, too little RAM!" is, that the initial problem occurs very deep inside of the code in places where the program(mer) can't really tell what the overall reason for the tiny specific problem there is. At that level of detail, all you can tell is that something went wrong, but not really which consequences this will have. Imagine a tiny screw that is part of a an aircraft. If that screw gets loose or breaks - which consequences will that have for the aircraft? Will it crash? Will the fuel consumption be higher? Will it fly as if nothing has happened? From the perspective of that screw it is impossible to say - it "depends".

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Hi folks, I'm getting the "This program has closed due to ...." message, too. But it happens after I end a mission, press ESC, and select QUIT on the menu. Here is the error log in Windows 7.

 

Faulting application name: dcs.exe, version: 1.2.16.39472, time stamp: 0x553fbc19

Faulting module name: Transport.dll, version: 1.2.16.39472, time stamp: 0x5523e206

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x000000000007b19e

Faulting process id: 0x17dc

Faulting application start time: 0x01d0bdf2dbc2f6d6

Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\DCSWorld\bin\dcs.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\DCSWorld\bin\Transport.dll

Report Id: 57d1adee-29e7-11e5-b116-c03fd55b5c3c

 

Hi folks, I seem to be in the right place. I've recently purchased Black Shark 2 from Steam, and everything was running fine. I have 3 monitors up and working, finally, after fiddling with settings, etc. I started the Deployment campaign and made it through the fifth mission. When I try to continue to the sixth mission, Narzan Valley, it crashes with the error "Cannot load the debriefing file."

 

If I try to play this mission by loading outside of the campaign, from the list of missions, it let's me in, with 3 monitors. If I change my monitor setup to 1 monitor WITHIN the campaign, it let's me in!

 

So it seems something is happening with 3 monitors within the campaign. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

 

Mike

 

Win 7 Prof, i7-4770 3.4 GHz, 8 GB RAM, Nvidia Geforce GT 750


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