CTD and RAM Saturation

[Robin885]

Whenever I try to start a mission on Syria my game crashes directly to the desktop 90% of the time, without any error page, and my RAM saturates making any other program running alongside crash too. Same issue when I have nothing else running alongside. I have no trouble playing the game on any other maps, loadings go smoothly, as well as in-game.

Worth saying that it's not random either. For instance, I can run some of the F-14 quickstart missions without any issue, loading goes fast (although RAM usage is very high), as well as joining the Cold War server anytime it runs on Syria. But servers like Blue Flag, VFA-1 Wolfpack, or quickstart missions on the A-10 just won't load 100% of the time.

 

I play on 16Gb RAM.

[Flappie]

Hi Robin. Can you please attach your dcs.log file ?

 

(C:\Users\your_name\Saved Games\DCS...\Logs\dcs.log)

[Robin885]

Hi Flappie,

 

There you go, I hope that's the file you want, the log folder is full of that kind of file. I had to compress it, the forum won't let me post an OLD file

dcs.log.rar

[Flappie]

Thank you. I've found similar crashes here (2019) but there was no solution at the time.

 

2020-11-08 18:16:49.749 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 clean up LOD 1: left 43 released 0

2020-11-08 18:16:49.749 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 clean up 0.241500 ms

2020-11-08 18:16:49.820 INFO EDCORE: try to write dump information

2020-11-08 18:16:49.822 INFO EDCORE: # -------------- 20201108-181650 --------------

2020-11-08 18:16:49.823 INFO EDCORE: DCS/2.5.6.57264 (x86_64; Windows NT 10.0.19041)

2020-11-08 18:16:49.824 INFO EDCORE: S:\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\edterrainGraphics41.dll

2020-11-08 18:16:49.826 INFO EDCORE: # C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at 5DE2DA5A 00:00000000

2020-11-08 18:16:49.830 INFO EDCORE: SymInit: Symbol-SearchPath: '.;S:\DCS World OpenBeta\bin', symOptions: 534, UserName: 'zsrob'

2020-11-08 18:16:49.831 INFO EDCORE: OS-Version: 10.0.19041 () 0x300-0x1

2020-11-08 18:16:50.149 ERROR SOUND: can't load wave: "effects\aircrafts\fa-18\screech_side_var1"

2020-11-08 18:16:50.777 INFO EDCORE: 0x00000000000ADA5A (edterrainGraphics41): createInstancerRenderable + 0x1798A

2020-11-08 18:16:50.780 INFO EDCORE: 0x0000000000068A59 (metaShader): BaseBinder::render + 0x12159

2020-11-08 18:16:50.783 INFO EDCORE: 0x000000000009BE23 (edterrainGraphics41): createInstancerRenderable + 0x5D53

2020-11-08 18:16:50.791 INFO EDCORE: 0x00000000000DCA1F (edterrainGraphics41): CreateITerrainGraphics + 0x179F

2020-11-08 18:16:50.791 INFO EDCORE: 0x000000000006B33B (edterrainGraphics41): edtg41::TerrainRenderable::dumpRenderItem + 0x5B08B

2020-11-08 18:16:50.791 INFO EDCORE: 0x000000000006B80E (edterrainGraphics41): edtg41::TerrainRenderable::dumpRenderItem + 0x5B55E

2020-11-08 18:16:50.792 INFO EDCORE: 0x00000000000D4CF5 (edterrainGraphics41): createInstancerRenderable + 0x3EC25

2020-11-08 18:16:50.796 INFO EDCORE: 0x00000000001325AE (Visualizer): TerrainRenderer::forceLoading + 0x7E

2020-11-08 18:16:50.797 INFO EDCORE: 0x000000000015748E (Visualizer): smSceneManager::CreateSceneManager + 0x372E

2020-11-08 18:16:50.798 INFO EDCORE: 0x00000000007F117B (DCS): CoreUtils::TempFilesManager::operator= + 0x3CD2CB

2020-11-08 18:16:50.799 INFO EDCORE: 0x00000000007DBC40 (DCS): CoreUtils::TempFilesManager::operator= + 0x3B7D90

2020-11-08 18:16:50.799 INFO EDCORE: 0x000000000011C27A (edCore): Common::FSM::sendOutputSymbol_ + 0x4A

2020-11-08 18:16:50.803 INFO EDCORE: 0x000000000011B912 (edCore): Common::FSM::enterToState_ + 0xC2

2020-11-08 18:16:50.803 INFO EDCORE: 0x000000000011C0F9 (edCore): Common::FSM::onSymbol_ + 0x1A9

2020-11-08 18:16:50.804 INFO EDCORE: 0x00000000007EEEC5 (DCS): CoreUtils::TempFilesManager::operator= + 0x3CB015

2020-11-08 18:16:50.805 INFO EDCORE: 0x00000000007C0D54 (DCS): CoreUtils::TempFilesManager::operator= + 0x39CEA4

2020-11-08 18:16:50.806 INFO EDCORE: 0x00000000007C1119 (DCS): CoreUtils::TempFilesManager::operator= + 0x39D269

2020-11-08 18:16:50.807 INFO EDCORE: 0x00000000017BE69A (DCS): AmdPowerXpressRequestHighPerformance + 0xB16696

2020-11-08 18:16:50.808 INFO EDCORE: 0x00000000009ADC9E (DCS): CoreUtils::TempFilesManager::operator= + 0x589DEE

2020-11-08 18:16:50.809 INFO EDCORE: 0x0000000000017034 (KERNEL32): BaseThreadInitThunk + 0x14

2020-11-08 18:16:50.810 INFO EDCORE: 0x000000000004CEC1 (ntdll): RtlUserThreadStart + 0x21

2020-11-08 18:16:51.303 INFO EDCORE: Minidump created.

 

I see you have quite a few mods.

 

Please try this:

1. Close DCS
   
2. Rename your "C:\Users\your_name\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta" into "DCS.openbeta_backup"
   
3. Launch DCS (you'll have default settings) and try reproducing your Syria crash a few times.
   

If you cannot reproduce the issue anymore, it means some mod is responsible for your crashes.

[Ramsay]

Syria is mostly working fine with 32 GB DDR4 but I'm seeing the same heavy ram use as the OP.

 

~24 GB playing a light SP track (for comparison a similar replay in the Caucasus uses ~13 GB)

 

I can load into a light MP Syria server but it'll max out all 32 GB RAM - textures/modules are slow to load and I've seen CTD which I attribute to memory issues/shortage.

 

Detail

 

 

Additional detail, DCS settings, etc.

https://forums.eagle.ru/forum/englis...97#post7127997

 

(Note that in Mustang's screenshot, Syria's MP used 52 GB of 64 GB RAM available.)

 

Caucasus SP track for comparison

 

 

 

[Flappie]

Talking about memory, @Robin885, I forgot to tell you to manually set your pagefile to 16 GB min / 16 GB max thanks to this guide (you currently have a 10 GB pagefile).

[Robin885]

Talking about memory, @Robin885, I forgot to tell you to manually set your pagefile to 16 GB min / 16 GB max thanks to this guide (you currently have a 10 GB pagefile).

 

It appears that fixed the issue, I can now join and hop in the cockpit without incident. Thank you about that.

[Flappie]

Excellent news! Fly safe. :pilotfly: