[RESOLVED]Splash n Crash

I've been trying to get my recently downloaded DCS World to work but have been unsuccessful. I have tried every which way of starting the game and it always splashes and then promptly crashes ('DCS World has stopped working; windows is searching for a solution....'). I have been through the forums for the past few hours with no luck. I'll upload my crash logs and specs, maybe that will help. I just don't understand why nothing will get the game to start.

(Attempting to) run version 1.5.4 from Steam.

Tried uploading my log files, failed (sorry):

My specs:

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601

Other OS Description Not Available

OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation

System Name --------------

System Manufacturer Alienware

System Model M14xR1

System Type x64-based PC

Processor Intel® Core i7-2760QM CPU @ 2.40GHz, 2401 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)

BIOS Version/Date Alienware A04, 8/1/2011

SMBIOS Version 2.7

Windows Directory C:\Windows

System Directory C:\Windows\system32

Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1

Locale United States

Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"

User Name -----------------

Time Zone US Mountain Standard Time

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB

Total Physical Memory 7.95 GB

Available Physical Memory 2.68 GB

Total Virtual Memory 15.9 GB

Available Virtual Memory 10.9 GB

Page File Space 7.95 GB

Page File C:\pagefile.sys

GPU specs:

NVIDIA System Information report created on: 10/07/2016 22:47:19

System name: -----------------

[Display]

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit (Service Pack 1)

DirectX version: 11.0

GPU processor: GeForce GT 555M

Driver version: 320.18

Direct3D API version: 11

Direct3D feature level: 11_0

CUDA Cores: 144

Core clock: 590 MHz

Shader clock: 1180 MHz

Memory data rate: 1800 MHz

Memory interface: 192-bit

Memory bandwidth: 43.20 GB/s

Total available graphics memory: 6885 MB

Dedicated video memory: 3072 MB DDR3

System video memory: 0 MB

Shared system memory: 3813 MB

Video BIOS version: 70.06.29.00.16

IRQ: 16

Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2

Device Id: 10DE 0DCD 04911028

Part Number: 1068 0000

[Components]

nvui.dll 8.17.13.2018 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component

nvxdsync.exe 8.17.13.2018 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component

nvxdplcy.dll 8.17.13.2018 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component

nvxdbat.dll 8.17.13.2018 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component

nvxdapix.dll 8.17.13.2018 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component

NVCPL.DLL 8.17.13.2018 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component

nvCplUIR.dll 7.2.710.0 NVIDIA Control Panel

nvCplUI.exe 7.2.710.0 NVIDIA Control Panel

nvWSSR.dll 6.14.13.2018 NVIDIA Workstation Server

nvWSS.dll 6.14.13.2018 NVIDIA Workstation Server

nvViTvSR.dll 6.14.13.2018 NVIDIA Video Server

nvViTvS.dll 6.14.13.2018 NVIDIA Video Server

nvDispSR.dll 6.14.13.2018 NVIDIA Display Server

NVMCTRAY.DLL 8.17.13.2018 NVIDIA Media Center Library

nvDispS.dll 6.14.13.2018 NVIDIA Display Server

PhysX 09.13.0604 NVIDIA PhysX

NVCUDA.DLL 8.17.13.2018 NVIDIA CUDA 5.5.1 driver

nvGameSR.dll 6.14.13.2018 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

nvGameS.dll 6.14.13.2018 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

.crash file:

# -------------- 20161008-054332 --------------

# C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at F7452D72 00:00000000

00000000 00000000 0000:00000000

F7452D72 0012EE10 0000:00000000 D3DKMTCloseAdapter()+BA34A

DD7A2755 0012EE80 0000:00000000 ??1DX11Renderer@RenderAPI@@QEAA@XZ()+A85

DEAEC915 0012EFD0 0000:00000000 ?addMSAAShaderDefine@PostEffectBase@PostEffects@@IEAA_NW4MSAA_ENUM@render@@AEAV?$vector@VDefinePair@render@@V?$allocator@VDefinePair@render@@@ed@@@ed@@@Z()+3275

DEAE9989 0012F000 0000:00000000 ?addMSAAShaderDefine@PostEffectBase@PostEffects@@IEAA_NW4MSAA_ENUM@render@@AEAV?$vector@VDefinePair@render@@V?$allocator@VDefinePair@render@@@ed@@@ed@@@Z()+2E9

DE461AB9 0012F060 0000:00000000 ?initPostEffects@SceneManager_Implement@@QEAAXXZ()+239

DE463875 0012F0E0 0000:00000000 ?StartInterface@SceneManager_Implement@@UEAAXXZ()+205

DE460674 0012F1C0 0000:00000000 ??0SceneManager_Implement@@QEAA@XZ()+724

DE46B14A 0012F200 0000:00000000 ?CreateSceneManager@smSceneManager@@SAXXZ()+2A

3F76BAAE 0012F310 0000:00000000

3F76A159 0012F390 0000:00000000

3F43D535 0012FA40 0000:00000000

3F863FE9 0012FA80 0000:00000000

76CB59BD 0012FAB0 0000:00000000 BaseThreadInitThunk()+D

76DEA2E1 0012FB00 0000:00000000 RtlUserThreadStart()+21

dcs.txt:

=== Log opened UTC 2016-10-08 05:43:23

00000.000 INFO VFS: Using 'Saved Games': "C:\Users\------------\Saved Games"

00000.868 INFO DCS: DCS/1.5.4.57288 (x86_64; Windows/6.1.7601)

00000.868 INFO DCS: CPU cores: 4, System RAM: 8139 MB

00000.878 INFO EDCORE: (dDispatcher)enterToState_:0

00000.885 INFO Dispatcher: 2016/10/7 22:43 V1508170900

00000.912 INFO INPUT: Device [Keyboard] created deviceId = 1

00000.915 INFO INPUT: Device [Jumi Joystick {ACE5FD70-C4D8-11e2-8003-444553540000}] created deviceId = 2

00000.915 INFO INPUT: Joystick created[Jumi Joystick {ACE5FD70-C4D8-11e2-8003-444553540000}], ForceFeedBack: no

00000.980 INFO INPUT: Device [Mouse] created deviceId = 3

00001.223 INFO SOUND: loaded 1096 sdefs from "sounds\sdef"

00001.283 INFO SOUND: Using driver: xaudio27

00001.291 INFO SOUND: XAudio2: Using device ID:'{0.0.0.00000000}.{2be0e874-ed8c-4c8b-8f1a-fd70b9955aa9}' Name:'Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)', channels: 2

00001.357 INFO SOUND: XAudio2: channel layout: Headphones/Stereo

00001.357 INFO SOUND: Using SSE FTZ/DAZ mode.

00001.936 ERROR VFS: Can't mount './CoreMods/aircraft/Hawk/Textures/Avionics' to '/textures/'.

00001.943 INFO SOUND: loaded 19 sdefs from ".\coremods\aircraft\m-2000c\sounds\sdef"

00001.944 ERROR VFS: Can't mount './CoreMods/aircraft/M-2000C/Skins/1/ME' to '/textures/'.

00001.944 ERROR VFS: Can't mount './CoreMods/aircraft/M-2000C/Textures/Weapons' to '/textures/'.

00001.949 INFO SOUND: loaded 10 sdefs from ".\coremods\aircraft\mig-21bis\sounds\sdef"

00001.961 INFO SOUND: loaded 7 sdefs from ".\coremods\aircraft\sa342\sounds\sdef"

00002.355 INFO WorldPlugIns: No 'registryPath' for 'AVIODEV_C-101'

00002.403 INFO GRAPHICSVISTA: Creating Resource "Unicode" of type 1

00002.416 INFO DX11BACKEND: TRUNK renderer init: showShaderError coreCount=1

00002.514 INFO DX11BACKEND: Driver Concurrent Creates - 1

00002.514 INFO DX11BACKEND: Driver Command Lists - 0

00002.516 INFO DX11BACKEND: DX11ShaderBinaries::loadShaders

00002.516 INFO DX11BACKEND: DX11ShaderBinaries::loadCache Bazar/shaders/fxo

00008.374 INFO DX11BACKEND: DX11ShaderBinaries::loadCache done

00008.374 INFO DX11BACKEND: DX11ShaderBinaries::loadCache C:\Users\-------------\Saved Games\DCS\fxo

00008.374 INFO DX11BACKEND: DX11ShaderBinaries::loadCache done

00008.374 INFO DX11BACKEND: DX11ShaderBinaries::loadShaders finished

00008.388 ERROR VFS: Can't mount './Bazar/EffectViewer/envcubes' to '/textures/'.

00008.731 ERROR VFS: Can't mount './Mods/tech/Kuznecow/Textures/TUG_3913' to '/textures/'.

00008.994 INFO RENDERER: Global metashader cache enabled

00008.994 INFO RENDERER: Loading metashader cache from C:\Users\----------\Saved Games\DCS\metashaders/

00008.995 INFO RENDERER: Metashader cache: 0 (0) cached shaders out of date

00009.247 ERROR DX11BACKEND: failed to create structed buffer. Reason: E_INVALIDARG

00009.247 ERROR DX11BACKEND: CreateShaderResourceView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG

00009.247 ERROR DX11BACKEND: CreateUnorderedAccessView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG

00009.247 INFO DCS: try to write dump information

00009.251 INFO EDCORE: # -------------- 20161008-054332 --------------

00009.252 INFO EDCORE:

00009.254 INFO EDCORE: # C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at F7452D72 00:00000000

00009.262 INFO EDCORE: 00000000 00000000 0000:00000000

00009.273 INFO EDCORE: F7452D72 0012EE10 0000:00000000 D3DKMTCloseAdapter()+BA34A

00009.278 INFO EDCORE: DD7A2755 0012EE80 0000:00000000 ??1DX11Renderer@RenderAPI@@QEAA@XZ()+A85

00009.280 INFO EDCORE: DEAEC915 0012EFD0 0000:00000000 ?addMSAAShaderDefine@PostEffectBase@PostEffects@@IEAA_NW4MSAA_ENUM@render@@AEAV?$vector@VDefinePair@render@@V?$allocator@VDefinePair@render@@@ed@@@ed@@@Z()+3275

00009.287 INFO EDCORE: DEAE9989 0012F000 0000:00000000 ?addMSAAShaderDefine@PostEffectBase@PostEffects@@IEAA_NW4MSAA_ENUM@render@@AEAV?$vector@VDefinePair@render@@V?$allocator@VDefinePair@render@@@ed@@@ed@@@Z()+2E9

00009.289 INFO EDCORE: DE461AB9 0012F060 0000:00000000 ?initPostEffects@SceneManager_Implement@@QEAAXXZ()+239

00009.291 INFO EDCORE: DE463875 0012F0E0 0000:00000000 ?StartInterface@SceneManager_Implement@@UEAAXXZ()+205

00009.293 INFO EDCORE: DE460674 0012F1C0 0000:00000000 ??0SceneManager_Implement@@QEAA@XZ()+724

00009.296 INFO EDCORE: DE46B14A 0012F200 0000:00000000 ?CreateSceneManager@smSceneManager@@SAXXZ()+2A

00009.298 INFO EDCORE: 3F76BAAE 0012F310 0000:00000000

00009.300 INFO EDCORE: 3F76A159 0012F390 0000:00000000

00009.302 INFO EDCORE: 3F43D535 0012FA40 0000:00000000

00009.308 INFO EDCORE: 3F863FE9 0012FA80 0000:00000000

00009.317 INFO EDCORE: 76CB59BD 0012FAB0 0000:00000000 BaseThreadInitThunk()+D

00009.318 INFO EDCORE: 76DEA2E1 0012FB00 0000:00000000 RtlUserThreadStart()+21

00010.038 INFO EDCORE: Minidump created.

00010.041 INFO DCS: try to write track file

Yup, updated my drivers and it now starts up. Thanks!!!