Bug reporter (please specify which aircraft campaign you're playing)

Hey,

Love the campaign.

Just reporting a CTD that has occurred twice now.

I am using DCS Beta 1.5.6 and the Museum Relic F-86 Campaign.

CTDs occurring in Mission 8.1 - The rail yard strike.

I have had two CTDs during this mission. I will attach DCS logs and Windows event Viewer logs. I almost completed it the first time round, but stupidly flew in to the ground trying to tune my ADF on RTB (I knew it was going to happen too).

On the second and third attempts I have got a CTD with Transport.dll.

I think on both occasions I was watching the Tornadoes fire on the second SAM from different views (Outside Tornado View, Weapon view - missile) and then when I returned to my own VC view after a few seconds I got the CTD.

Edit: I have now completed the mission. I just stayed in VC view and completed it with no issues. Not sure if changing views caused the CTDs, but it's possible.

Cheers,

DCS_1-5-6_Beta_MuseumRelic_8-1_CTD_EventViewer.txt

DCS_1-5-6_Beta_Logs_180316.zip

Hey,

 

Love the campaign.

 

Just reporting a CTD that has occurred twice now.

 

I am using DCS Beta 1.5.6 and the Museum Relic F-86 Campaign.

 

CTDs occurring in Mission 8.1 - The rail yard strike.

 

I have had two CTDs during this mission. I will attach DCS logs and Windows event Viewer logs. I almost completed it the first time round, but stupidly flew in to the ground trying to tune my ADF on RTB (I knew it was going to happen too).

 

On the second and third attempts I have got a CTD with Transport.dll.

 

I think on both occasions I was watching the Tornadoes fire on the second SAM from different views (Outside Tornado View, Weapon view - missile) and then when I returned to my own VC view after a few seconds I got the CTD.

 

 

Edit: I have now completed the mission. I just stayed in VC view and completed it with no issues. Not sure if changing views caused the CTDs, but it's possible.

 

 

Cheers,

01200.529 INFO EDCORE: # -------------- 20170318-060459 --------------

01200.530 INFO EDCORE: C:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\Transport.dll

01200.530 INFO EDCORE: # C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at E54EBE93 00:00000000

01201.787 INFO EDCORE: Minidump created.

That looks like a known issue with DCS, check this out.

You could open a thread in those subforums, the additional info could help them solve the issue. Make sure to give enough details on your system and DCS configuration (see Bignewy's questions).

Thanks Redglyph for looking into this! I hope that answered the question you had scotth6. If not, we could go to Bignewy directly, but I think he covered the problem in the thread that Redglyph posted.

If you already "beat" the mission ... which it looks like you did (save for the ADF tuning mishap :P) you can always skip the mission via the F10 Radio options in the first 30 seconds of starting the mission.

Thank you both. All good now anyway, but I have reported it in the thread you mentioned also.

I'm slowly getting through the campaign Apache, it's really immersive with a great story. Great job!

Cheers,

I have just started the F-86 version of the campaign today and have ran into a few issues with the AI. In mission 2 I get the radio message that the helicopters are over the factory at 1500 feet, then they just start hovering above the ground near the factory building. I moved on to the next way point and got a message about the boats, flew around and shot them but the helos were still hovering back by the airfield not moving.

In mission 4(i think) where you escort the general things went fine until i got the message asking what I think about my plane, then the Yak I was escorting took a sharp turn to the south east and entered a steep dive until it was flying just above ground level.

I'll take a look at this. First time I've heard anything like this though. Did you have to use the "skip mission" feature to get past the 2nd mission? Which version of DCS are you running?

I'll take a look at this. First time I've heard anything like this though. Did you have to use the "skip mission" feature to get past the 2nd mission? Which version of DCS are you running?

Yes I used the skip mission on the second one. I'm running whatever the latest version is. I just tried the Mig-15 campaign to see if it would work, first mission went fine, second mission I never got the radio message from the helos that I was supposed to escort and they never spawned.

Hmmm ok. Thanks for the heads up. Would your version be the latest of Beta or Stable? I appreciate you trying this with the MiG-15 too. Extremely odd that they never spawned.

Beta = 1.5.6.3690

Stable = 1.5.6.1938

Hopefully tomorrow ED will update the Stable to match the Beta version. Regardless though, I'll still look into it and get back to you. Worse comes to worse, I might have to ask for your mission log files so I can pass it on to Bignewy. If you find a post from him, his signature has instructions on how to find the log file.

I had been playing the open beta version 1.5.6.3690. I tried mission 2 in the Mig today after patching, and the helos spawned and took off but after getting the message they were 500m over the factory they immediately dropped altitude to just above ground level and flew back to the air field. After reaching what looked like the center of the runway they climbed back up to 500m and continued down the coast as expected. The rest of the mission went as it was supposed to I think.

Well, I tested out a few missions, and Yes, the F-86 campaign does have the anomalies you were talking about. The helo's in mission 2 ... I have no clue why they're doing that. F-86 mission 4, the Yak actually goes back to Sochi, but then rejoins the flight plan and completes it.

For the MiG-15, I was able to talk to the helo's in mission 2. They took off, and at waypoint 1, turned back to the airport, overflew it, but then went along on the flight plan. Just like you said. Also, my custom NDB for Sukhumi was all the way over at Kobuleti ... very weird.

I also noticed in a mission further along in the campaign (MiG-15 mission 11) that the A.I. aircraft now get stuck in taxing.

I then flew the F-86 mission 11 because in this mission there's A.I. friendly aircraft that spawn in the air, on the ramp, and a delay ramp start ... trying to narrow this down to see if one specific type of spawn is creating this issue. Everything acted normally though.

I'll see if I can get to the bottom of this. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

- Apache600

@Zeroskills, after talking with a few others, it seems that the latest update (possibly stretching back for the past two updates) have had an internal break with some of the A.I. functionality. ED knows about it, and there should be a fix to it in the not to distant future.

Ok, thanks for the info. Other than the glitchy AI, I have been enjoying the campaign.

good ol' ATC. I have had this once before. I was able to remedy it by once again asking for takeoff clearance, moving forward a bit (not entering the runway) and then telling tower to abort the clearance.

If nothing else, you can depart ahead of the Yak, just circle close to the airport. Once you're clear, he should have nothing holding him back.

P.S. the truck that blocks him was a way for me to make it so he wouldn't rush the runway without the player getting to a certain point of his/her start sequence.

Hi,

In the Museum Relic - F-86 campaign, I am getting stuck at Mission 11.

This is just FYI, as I have read before that you can skip the mission if there is a bug or you can't complete the mission.

I have now completed it 3 times, and even though it kept saying mission completed, I wanted to keep trying anyway to try and get more kills, and try a few different tactics. It's a really cool mission and one that lends itself to being repeated over and over for training purposes. I would love to use that mission with other aircraft too. It would be a good weapon training mission for the A-10.

So anyway, I have received a result of 100 and the mission completed message several times, but each time I try to continue that mission just starts again.

Cheers,

Hi,

 

In the Museum Relic - F-86 campaign, I am getting stuck at Mission 11.

 

This is just FYI, as I have read before that you can skip the mission if there is a bug or you can't complete the mission.

 

I have now completed it 3 times, and even though it kept saying mission completed, I wanted to keep trying anyway to try and get more kills, and try a few different tactics. It's a really cool mission and one that lends itself to being repeated over and over for training purposes. I would love to use that mission with other aircraft too. It would be a good weapon training mission for the A-10.

 

So anyway, I have received a result of 100 and the mission completed message several times, but each time I try to continue that mission just starts again.

 

Cheers,

I've had this problem before with the M-2000C campaign, you could have something wrong in your logbook, the file that stores where you are in campaigns and the statistics of your pilot.

It's in %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\MissionEditor\logbook.lua (or ...\DCS\... if you're using the release branch). Whatever you do, make a backup first.

Check this post that describes the problem some had a while ago and how to figure out what is wrong. Or if that doesn't help, this one which shows how to edit the pilot logbook and force the advancement to the next mission.

If you're really lost, you can post your logbook.lua here and I or someone else will try to verify it, but it could take a while. Also, put your log so we can see what is wrong. So those two files:

%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Logs\dcs.log

%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\MissionEditor\logbook.lua

Thanks Redglyph,

That's very helpful. I will have a look at my logbook. I haven't tried yet but according to the notes, Apache600 has kindly added a bypass feature with this campaign, so I will also just try that first. I will have a look at the logbooks etc just to learn something too, and edit if still necessary.

Cheers,

Great feature in such a case :)

Apache,

Compliments on a great campaign! Love the variety of challenges: navigation, weather, mechanical failures, CAS, interdiction, CAP... very creative mission design.

Wanted to report an issue with Mission 8.5: Unleash Hell as the F-86.

***SPOILERS***

I dropped in behind the Mi-26 and attempted to shoot it down from close-range at six o'clock. Fired my entire load on two gun passes, didn't go down. I hadn't used my rockets yet, so crept quite close, and managed to score a hit with an HVAR. Still flew on untouched.

In the AAR, it showed I'd scored 180 hits with 12.7mm, then 576 hits with 12.7mm, then an HVAR hit. I returned back to base with zero aerial kills and marveling at the solid construction of Soviet heavy helicopters :).

Is the Mi-26 somehow set for invulnerability?

Thanks Istari6!

As per your question, I don't have the Mi-26 set to immortal. There just seem to be times where the helo takes damage, and other times when it doesn't :/ sorry I can't help ya more. 180 hits though! and with rockets! that's impressive.

It's not necessary to kill the helo's to complete the mission, so I hope that you were still able to get past it.

Because I've had problems with the helicopters not taking enough damage for them to go down, I actually have them set to do an onboard explosion if there life gets to a certain point. For the Mi-26, if it gets BELOW 75% health, there's an explosion on board. ... maybe 181 shots would have done it :P

- Apache600

Actually, it was 736 (180+576) hits with 12.7mm and 1 hit with an HVAR out of 16, so I still need to work on my aim with rockets :)

You're correct that I was able to complete the mission successfully even though I didn't knock any of them down. I really like that feature of your mission design - that not every combat mission is perfectly successful and the war grinds onward. That feels more realistic.

Just wanted to be sure that if there were any easy fixes, you were aware of it. Users can definitely live with it as it is now.

I'm looking forward to tackling Mission 9 tonight!

BTW - have you created any other campaigns or missions for DCS? Your real-world experience as a pilot shows. I'm a VFR-only low-time private pilot, but it's been fun using radio beacons and dealing with mechanical failures outside the pure combat arena.

LOL, still though, a hit with an HVAR. that's good! Think about it, a slower (relatively speaking) rocket that has a more pronounced drop, and a target that is not only suspended in air, but also moving. Not an easy target.

Low-time private pilot is nothing to balk at! Congrats for getting the rating. That's a huge accomplishment in and of itself. Where do you fly out of? Mission 9 shows you a bit of the aviation world that Cessna pilots don't normally see. Have fun with the problems of high altitude performance! And I think you may get a kick out of Mission 10. E6B worthy for the mission design. It's one of my favorites.

I've got a few other missions floating around. Most notably is this one: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=169772 It won't challenge your navigation skills or anything. But it is a great Shoot-em up mission.

- Apache600

Thanks! I fly out of Santa Rosa, California, about an hour north of San Francisco. Beautiful area. Best memory is getting a chance to go up in a Pitts Special and do acrobatics over the Wine Country. Highly recommended.

Yes, Mission 9 made me appreciate modern fighters that can climb at 35,000-50,000 fpm. The Sabre took quite awhile to get up to that 28,000 ft altitude. BTW - is this accurate? I've read the F-86F had a climb rate of >9000 fpm. Yet only loaded with 2 x LAU-7/AIM-9Bs, I was struggling to maintain 3000-4000 fpm. Perhaps I need to retest with empty load and 1/2 fuel load.

And let me echo the other comments in this forum about Mission 10. That was *excellent*. Beat it on my first try, but took some careful pre-planning and mentally rehearsing the turns ahead of time. One of the best missions I've played yet in DCS.

I'll check out the other missions you've created, including the one you reference. Hope you'll be involved in creating some future campaigns for DCS!

Santa Rosa is a great little airport. Been there a few times, but it's been a while. Most recently was probably 3 years ago with a Caravan. I was trying to get into Ukiah, but the weather was below minimums, so I diverted to Santa Rosa. I live just to the East of you a bit, in Sacramento.

With the climb rates, yeah that's accurate. The climb rates that you read on aircraft performance charts are all for very specific (and good) conditions. It's usually sea level and at standard temperature. In the jet I fly, we normally climb at ~3,500ft/min when we're low (10,000 ft). But once we get up higher, 30,000 feet or so, I'm happy with 1,200ft/min. Of course it all depends on the weight of the aircraft, airspeed in the climb, and air temperature. But performance drops off drastically when you get up into the flight levels. (Good example, if I were to get into a high altitude stall, after putting my engines to MAX power, I would still lose probably 4,000 ft before I could recover)

F-86 Mission 4: The hydraulic failure had no effect. I did not loose any hydraulic pressure, nor did I notice any components not working anymore. The hydraulic failure was listed in the event list in the debriefing though.