Always Crashes

hrnet940 · February 22, 2020

I am new to this and hope I am doing this correctly. I have been crashing every time I try to fly anything in the F/A-18C Hornet. If I get in to the cockpit, that is great progress. I have tried Training, Instant Action, Missions, and everything, but it always crashes within 5 minutes of starting anything. It started to act up and crash shortly after the second last update. I was hoping that the latest update today would correct my issues, but nothing changed. Should I remove everything and perform a fresh reload of DCS or what? It is VERY frustrating when I get some time alone and can get training/flying in, but it crashes ALL the time.

Yours Frustrated,

Wayne Wilson

JayBird · February 22, 2020

Have you posted a track file anywhere?

noisy_lightning · February 22, 2020

Have you posted a track file anywhere?

I think the OP means the game crashes, not the aircraft.

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silverdevil · February 22, 2020

I am new to this and hope I am doing this correctly. I have been crashing every time I try to fly anything in the F/A-18C Hornet. If I get in to the cockpit, that is great progress. I have tried Training, Instant Action, Missions, and everything, but it always crashes within 5 minutes of starting anything. It started to act up and crash shortly after the second last update. I was hoping that the latest update today would correct my issues, but nothing changed. Should I remove everything and perform a fresh reload of DCS or what? It is VERY frustrating when I get some time alone and can get training/flying in, but it crashes ALL the time.

Yours Frustrated,
Wayne Wilson

i went through this. i tried every bit of advice i could find but nothing worked. drivers, shaders, blah,, blah. i have been in IT since 1989 and always had PCs for gaming so i do not count myself as an ignoramus. i finally deemed it was my video card so i bought a new 1080 ($800!). when i got the card and installed i watched the progress of the drivers for nvidia and saw something that indicated the process was replacing files and one note was like 3 years old. so i think in my case, even after trying to get rid of the drivers, it turned out to be the drivers. not sure why. the way windows works is that a new piece of hardware will require a whole new set of drivers. so... good luck.

PS - so another thing i did not do was to install the experience application. just drivers as i saw some posts mentioning this as the culprit. i never have used / installed this since new card and have not had any crashes. i play some missions that are 90 minutes.

Edited February 22, 2020 by silverdevil
PS

hrnet940 · February 22, 2020

Where do I get the track file from? What do you mean with "I think the OP means the game crashes, not the aircraft. " I have done several repairs, but that didn't seem to repair what is wrong. It happens with my F/A-18C, F-16C, SU-33 and Spitfire Lk Mk.IXc. I am using mods from Helios for my F/A-18C, F-16C and SU-33 to use my second monitor as an instrument panel. I was trying to use OvGME to manage my mods and found more than one video on how to set it up. It is unclear to me the proper steps, if any, to perform before or after an update has been released from Eagle Dynamics. I think the best thing for me would be to remove everything and start with a fresh install. I really enjoy flying DCS and like it more than Lockheed Martin' P3D, but wish the map was bigger. Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated and very helpful to get me back in the air and enjoying DCS once again.

Patiently waiting your knowledgeable advice for a nugget.

Thanks,

Wayne

BIGNEWY · February 22, 2020

Hi

please see my crash advice link below in my signature.

If you still get the same after please attach your dcs log from your saved games dcs log folder

Thank you

hrnet940 · February 22, 2020

I updated my video board back in December 2019 from my old NVIDIA GTX 660 to the new EVGA NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super Ultra, along with a new power supply to provide me the power to run my new graphics card. I jumped from 30-40 FPS to a whopping steady 75 FPS. It was working great until me messing around with OvGME. I like the Helios profiles and what they do to engage a second monitor displaying my instrument panels for more immersion and getting my home built cockpit more complete. I ensure that all of my drivers are up to date and think that I corrupted something and it is not fixing with the repair function.

Thanks for the words of wisdom. Looks like my next step is to remove and install a fresh version, but still waiting for a 'GO' or 'NOGO' on the remove and fresh install. If I do go down the fresh install rabbit hole, any words of advice or what to save and/or delete to ensure a near flawless install? Should I remove everything on the C drive and the Saved Games folder or can I keep the Saved Games folder or ....

Thanks,

Wayne

hrnet940 · February 22, 2020

I am following your advice BIGNEWY and have already performed the cleanup and repair and add backup to my Saved Games folder (DCS.openbetabackup). I am moving on to start DCS again and go from there. Thanks again for everything and I will keep you posted on what happens, great or otherwise.

Thanks,

Wayne

BIGNEWY · February 22, 2020

if you still have problems attach the dcs log it will give us clues

also if you are using viacom or voice attack disable them

thanks

hrnet940 · February 22, 2020

Everything seemed to be working happily, but then it shut down after I was done programming my TM HOTAS Warthog and BBI-32. I clicked on the OKAY button at the bottom right and it said that it couldn't find the DCS.exe in the bin folder. I looked in the bin folder and it isn't there now. It also popped up the attached text file. Hope this helps.

autoupdate_templog - 22 Feb 2020.txt

Edited February 22, 2020 by hrnet940
Spelling issues to correct.

BIGNEWY · February 22, 2020

Everything seem to be working happily, but then it shut down after I was done programming my TM HOTAS Warthog and BBI-32. I clicked on the OKAY button at the bottm right and it said that it couldn't find the DCS.exe in the bin folder. I looked in the bin folder and it isn't there now. It also popped up the attached text file. Hope this helps.

your auto update log says

ERROR: Can't run C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin/DCS.exe: (2) The system cannot find the file specified.

Check the DCS.exe has not been removed by your antivirus

also please attach your dcs log which can be found here

C:\Users\yourname\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Logs

thanks

hrnet940 · February 22, 2020

Thanks BIGNEWY. It was removed by my antivirus software and I have restored it back to the folder. Here is all that was in the Logs folder.

I have not fired up DCS yet, but I will let you know what happened shortly.

Thanks for everything,

Wayne

dcs.log-20200222-141010.zip

hrnet940 · February 22, 2020

Just started DCS and it worked. One thing back working, but it crashed again. I started Instant Action / F/A-18C / Free Flight / Caucasus map hit the FLY button and didn't last ten seconds before it crashed yet again. I didn't have any Mods running, no TrackIR running, just the Instant Action flight.

Thanks,

Wayne

simapajik · February 22, 2020

Did you not open the graphics.lua folder? Me DCS worked. And when I set max fps to 30 in this folder, DCS crashed every time I load.

I tried all the settings as recommended. Vypl antivir. Nothing helped. I think that the fault of DCS fall is the identification of graphics.lua file

I reinstalled the whole sim. Complete clean installation. It works. But you must not open the graphics.lua file

Then comes a crash when loading.

hrnet940 · February 22, 2020

I never opened that file. I followed the cleanup and repair and it still crashes.

Thanks,

Wayne

BIGNEWY · February 23, 2020

Keep adding your crash logs it will help the team try to understand what is going on for you.

Ensure windows is up to date including all display drivers.

At this point I would go for a complete reinstall of DCS including renaming your dcs folder in saved games.

you should not be editing any files it will only create problems.

thanks

hrnet940 · February 23, 2020

How should I go about removing my current version? Use the Add/Remove programs in Control Panel or is there a better way? Should I go into C drive after the removal and delete that main folder all together?

I currently have five folders in my Saved Games folder. They are: DCS, DCS Updater Utility, DCS.openalpha, DCS.openbeta, and DCS.openbetabackup. Should these be removed as well?

Thanks for all the help,

Wayne

BIGNEWY · February 23, 2020

How should I go about removing my current version? Use the Add/Remove programs in Control Panel or is there a better way? Should I go into C drive after the removal and delete that main folder all together?

I currently have five folders in my Saved Games folder. They are: DCS, DCS Updater Utility, DCS.openalpha, DCS.openbeta, and DCS.openbetabackup. Should these be removed as well?

Thanks for all the help,
Wayne

If you are going to do a full uninstall yes use add remove programs.

Regarding the saved games folders, I would rename the one you are using if that is open beta just call it open betabackup for now,

the others if not being used can be deleted.

Note DCS Updater Utility is for skatezillas tool and not for any dcs install

thanks

hrnet940 · February 23, 2020

Thanks BIGNEWY. I will get this done today and post my results here.

Thanks,

Wayne

Cutter5 · February 23, 2020

Had an MP session with friends today, 2 of them experienced a crash with the Ka-50 once, another friend in F-16 and me in the Hornet. The crashes happened randomly, or it seems like randomly.

My system is up to date, besides SRS and a few liveries I don't use any mods, and I deleted the fxo and metashader folders today.

DCS was able to do a crash dump, and I allowed DCS to send it to the team, but hereit is for reference.

Hope this helps.

dcs.log-20200223-205740.zip

Rebel28 · February 24, 2020

F18 game hangs on plane crash

F18 crashing causes game to hang up and crash.

dcs.log-20200224-050554.zip

BIGNEWY · February 24, 2020

F18 crashing causes game to hang up and crash.

Please try my crash advice link below

also you have a monitor setup error

2020-02-24 04:31:05.223 ERROR   Gui: [string "Config/MonitorSetup//3+Centered.lua"]:27: '}' expected (to close '{' at line 20) near 'GU_MAIN_VIEWPORT'

ensure windows and all drivers are up to date also

2020-02-24 05:05:54.064 INFO    EDCORE: try to write dump information
2020-02-24 05:05:54.068 INFO    EDCORE: # -------------- 20200224-050554 --------------
2020-02-24 05:05:54.071 INFO    EDCORE: DCS/2.5.6.43931 (x86_64; Windows NT 10.0.18363)
2020-02-24 05:05:54.073 INFO    EDCORE: 
2020-02-24 05:05:54.076 INFO    EDCORE: # C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at 00000000 00:00000000
2020-02-24 05:05:54.079 INFO    EDCORE: SymInit: Symbol-SearchPath: '.', symOptions: 534, UserName: 'NDW'
2020-02-24 05:05:54.082 INFO    EDCORE: OS-Version: 10.0.18363 () 0x300-0x1
2020-02-24 05:05:54.131 INFO    EDCORE: 0xFFFFFFD297804040 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
2020-02-24 05:05:54.134 INFO    EDCORE: 0x0000000000112F05 (CockpitBase): cockpit::avBasicElectric::switchElecOnOff + 0x19F5
2020-02-24 05:05:54.137 INFO    EDCORE: 0x00000000001120B2 (CockpitBase): cockpit::avBasicElectric::switchElecOnOff + 0xBA2
2020-02-24 05:05:54.137 INFO    EDCORE: 0x0000000000003A64 (World): wSimTrace::CommandsTraceDiscreteIsOn + 0x4C4
2020-02-24 05:05:54.138 INFO    EDCORE: 0x0000000000003EED (World): wSimCalendar::DoActionsUntil + 0x1FD
2020-02-24 05:05:54.138 INFO    EDCORE: 0x00000000006DC04F (DCS): woLA::loadNewInputLayout + 0x303EEF
2020-02-24 05:05:54.138 INFO    EDCORE: 0x00000000006ED403 (DCS): dDispatcher::InitDatabase + 0xE123
2020-02-24 05:05:54.139 INFO    EDCORE: 0x00000000006C37A4 (DCS): woLA::loadNewInputLayout + 0x2EB644
2020-02-24 05:05:54.139 INFO    EDCORE: 0x00000000006C3B69 (DCS): woLA::loadNewInputLayout + 0x2EBA09
2020-02-24 05:05:54.139 INFO    EDCORE: 0x000000000167D000 (DCS): AmdPowerXpressRequestHighPerformance + 0xB02FFC
2020-02-24 05:05:54.140 INFO    EDCORE: 0x000000000089D59E (DCS): uiAsyncNet::onGameStop + 0x673DE
2020-02-24 05:05:54.140 INFO    EDCORE: 0x0000000000017BD4 (KERNEL32): BaseThreadInitThunk + 0x14
2020-02-24 05:05:54.140 INFO    EDCORE: 0x000000000006CED1 (ntdll): RtlUserThreadStart + 0x21
2020-02-24 05:05:54.318 INFO    EDCORE: Minidump created.

hrnet940 · February 26, 2020

It took a long time to get everything downloaded and installed. It is still crashing once I try to get in to an aircraft cockpit and fly. I am going to follow your advice about the 'DCS Crashing? Try this first." How do I correct the monitor setup error? What is the second Code window showing me? I am updating my video driver and checking all of the other drivers now. Keep you posted on the progress. Thanks again for all the help.

Thanks,

Wayne

BIGNEWY · February 26, 2020

Hi

Yes try the link see if it helps.

Please add your fresh crash data here for the team, we may see something.

Following that advice will help with the monitor also as we will rename your dcs folder in saved games location.

thanks

hrnet940 · February 27, 2020

I followed what you told me to do and it still crashes. I performed the cleanup and repair from inside the bin folder. I tried to fly my F/A-18C, F-16C and the Spitfire Mk.IX and all three crashed at various times. I even moved to flying the Instant Action Free Flight in the Nevada map and it still crashed. The F-16 made it the longest and it wasn't until I quit to go back to the main menu that it crashed. I am including the three zipped crash logs that I have from today's flight. Hope these help. When it crashed yesterday and today it goes to a black screen and my mouse pointer only. I can't see the crash windows that come up and allow me to type stuff in. I found hitting the ESC key flashes those screens and after hitting the ESC key three times it finally shuts down DCS and kicks me back to my desktop. Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Wayne

Edited February 27, 2020 by hrnet940
The attached files didn't seem to have attached.

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