Loading gets to 57% and hangs

Hi, have been playing all afternoon on the beta 2.5 installed, came out of it and on starting the game again gets to 57% and hangs. Nothing has been changed. I have reinstalled on another hard drive but the same thing happens again.If I delete both versions and do a fresh reinstall, how do I decommission the modules that I have installed with out losing one of the keys?

Before loosing time on reinstalling anything, always do the "3-steps" method of troubleshooting DCS:

a) repair command;

b) cleanup command;

c) temporarily renaming/removing "Saved Games\DCS" folder on system drive and letting the game rebuild the new one.

In 99% of case that's enough to fix the game in a couple of minutes. If your reinstall on another drive didn't help, I'd hazard a guess the problem lies somewhere in the Saved Games location (as this one isn't affected by repairs or reinstalls).

As for your original question, you can deactivate them by unticking boxes in the module manager in the main game menu, but you don't have to - your keys are stored already in Windows registry, so unless you want to reinstall the whole system, no need to deactivate.

The modules Starforce Protection (if applicable) is tied to your hardware, are you changing hardware i.e. CPU, Motherboard, Memory configuration, etc. - if not, there should be no need to deactivate.

If you change GFX settings (ie Deferred Shading ON/OFF), DCS 2.5 rebuilds it's metashader cache, it'll also do the same if you change seasons or maps. While doing this, loading progress can appear to freeze but if you check task manager for CPU and HD activity, you'll see DCS is still busy.

Before doing a re-install, it might be worth while moving or renaming your "Save Games/ DCS.Openbeta" folder and letting DCS create a new one.

DCS_Updater.exe can also repair or clean an existing install of corrupt or modded files, if you think that is your issue.

Hi if you do a fresh install of dcs you do not need to deactivate.

 

you only need to deactivate if you change hardware or OS.

 

Please attach your dcs.log a guide can be found in my signature.

 

you could also try a cleanup and repair

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Logs.zip

Same here: out of nowhere the game stopped loading at 57%.

I solved by renaming the DCS saved games-folder and let it rebuild a new folder.

I then copied my joystick config from the old folder over to the new.

Not really my solution. Searching the forums showed this as a possible remedy. The hang-at-57%-problem apparently was in earlier versions too. First time for me and I have no clue what caused it.

Hello,

New user here. Just a heads up for ED.

Last night I played DCS for a couple hours which consisted mostly of playing around with Mission Editor and everything was fine. Now this morning I tried to launch the game again and it gets stuck at 57% just like the original poster.

Rebooted didn't help.

EDIT: I have the same problem as OP according to my dcs.log:

2018-02-25 13:31:45.479 ALERT Dispatcher: Error starting Game GUI: [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_aircraft.lua"]:183: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)

2018-02-25 13:31:45.479 INFO EDCORE: (dDispatcher)enterToState_:2

EDIT2: Deleting me_aircraft.lua and running the Cleanup & Repair routine didn't fix the problem. I'm getting same error again.