Game hangs at startup - reason identified !

One thing about this so called 'lock down' is a sense of irrelevance when it comes to time !! Anyway, passing the time doing rather nothing, many of us have experienced this hang when loading the game and it doesn't load, it just hangs with the DCS black screen etc, sound familiar ? Well, it is when you tick the box in options 'Full screen' the game won't start.

Go into options (located in 'Save games' DCS Open beta\config\options) and scroll down to 'Graphics' where you will see 'Full screen' marked as 'true'. Simply change it to 'false' and it's all fine and dandy, you will be home for tea and cakes and flying your next imaginary Top Gun mission quicker than you can say 'CoronaVirus' !!

My support ticket suggested this problem is related to antivirus software and firewall problems, it's not, it appears there is a problem in the options element programme where 'Full screen' option is null and not working.

Anyway, I have got back into modding DCS and it's been fun finding the fault.

Keep safe and well everyone.

Mizzy

Yes thanks, I can only guess that it is possibly related to screen resolution which would account for some but not all having this problem. I play in 3840 x 2160 4K, I suspect the full screen option is redundant in high resolution but no evidence. One thing I do know is it's nothing to do with antivirus software :-)

Best regards

Mizzy

It worked for me!

worked for me!

I was getting this a lot before unchecking "full screen".

GTX1080i

Yes thanks, I can only guess that it is possibly related to screen resolution which would account for some but not all having this problem. I play in 3840 x 2160 4K, I suspect the full screen option is redundant in high resolution but no evidence. One thing I do know is it's nothing to do with antivirus software :-)

 

Best regards

 

Mizzy

I don't think it has anything to do with 4K res. I run at 4K and the full screen option works fine.

I don't understand your comment about 'the full screen option being redundant in high resolution'. Why would that be? The difference between a windowed full screen and an actual full screen is the same regardless of resolution.

My DCS behave is same. When i have fullscreen on DCS refuse to start. With no fullscreen option DCS start every time like it should. Its a strange behaviour.

Seems like it has worked for me as well.

Thank you for this thread. Love it when you find one like this and the fix works. Bravo.

Funny how these things go round and back again :-)

This one was discovered/solved back in January (14th) this year. See post:

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4173538&postcount=26

The critical thing is that if you set your resolution (on your "Options" panel) to match what your display uses (has?) then you can go back to using "Full screen" (if you feel the need).

Cheers

Hey guys..... Having a slightly similar issue. Game loads fine with full-screen either true or false so no worries there *IF* I go through the DCS.exe found in the Bin folder and NOT DCS updater.exe... If someone can take a peek at my thread and has any ideas, please let me know. I even had my ISP send me another modem and running WIFI through my Asus router. I disabled WIFI on my modem/router because, well, it's crap lol.

Nothing seems to work so far.

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=4280043#post4280043