TFV - Shepard

A reinstall of 2.7 on our AMD box was insufficient *however* it was just running the uninstall and reinstalling. Didn't clear out the Saved Games folder or anything. Tomorrow we're going to install Windows Server (needs to be done anyways) which will have a completely fresh install of 2.7. I'll report back once that's all done (might take all week depending on our availability). If it stops crashing with a fresh install, I suspect there is an issue with pre-existing 2.5.6 files somewhere on the system. If it keeps crashing, I'm suspecting some esoteric issue with AMD processors. I've attached one of the crash dumps for reference, but essentially, we get these which looks to be similar in to the events in the OP. Same mission, new server, these events don't happen at all. 2021-04-25 09:18:02.181 INFO Scripting: event:type=eject,target=,t=11414.025,initiatorMissionID=1000167,targetMissionID=0, 2021-04-25 09:18:02.181 ERROR SCRIPTING: Mission script error: [string "C:\Users\CSG-8S~1\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS.openbeta_server\/~mis00003768.lua"]:8252: Unit doesn't exist stack traceback: [C]: ? [C]: in function 'getName' [string "C:\Users\CSG-8S~1\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS.openbeta_server\/~mis00003768.lua"]:8252: in function 'onEvent' [string "Scripts/World/EventHandlers.lua"]:13: in function <[string "Scripts/World/EventHandlers.lua"]:11> dcs.20210425-092029.log

So in our case, I feel confident enough saying that reinstalling the Samsung NVMe drivers for our EVO 970 Pro stopped the BSODs. Not sure why they started the day of the 2.7 update.

Out of curiosity, have you guys tried reinstalling DCS, what OS are you using, and are you using an AMD processor? I ask because we have a mission running on our server (Windows 10, Ryzen 5 3600) that was crashing on ejects like your server, we stood up a server in OVH (Windows Server 2016, Xeon E-2136, fresh 2.7 install) and we put the same mission on that server with zero changes and have had zero crashes.

We're running one DCS server on a Ryzen 5 3600, 32GB RAM, and 500GB NVMe running Windows 10. We're running another on an OVH ADVANCE-2 dedicated server, Xeon E-2136, 32GB RAM, and 2x500 NVMe running Windows Server 2016 I've had servers in other groups running OVH GAME-1 and RISE-2 plans. Some groups here use NFO or Hetzner servers. Many different valid options. In general I would choose Windows Server 2016/2019, NVMe storage, 32GB of RAM, and any processor that has a base clock of at least 3.5Ghz and strong single core performance.

Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, and Windows 2019 all work fine and there's really no reason to use another OS than those three. All work fine both virtual and physical.

This is a physical machine, and the page file is Windows managed. It's been given a maximum size of 16GB. Windows shows it recommends 2.8GB. There were no changes made to the server preceding or after the update and the BSODs started regularly after 2.7. Memory usage seems about the same as it was. -- I have just realized and was notified by a group member that this server is currently running on 16GB of physical RAM after a stick tested bad a while ago. I don't think this is sufficient for our use case and we're going to install more and test, and in my experience with dynamically allocated memory on VMs, Windows + DCS likes to sit at 18GB minimum so I'm wondering if 2.7 just tipped us over the edge.

Hello, I'd like to report a bug experienced on our dedicated server running DCS 2.7.0.5118 Open Beta. We've been experiencing BSODs daily since the release of 2.7. The DCS logs are not useful and end abruptly. I analyzed the minidumps and Windows is faulting DCS.exe for causing the BSOD. There doesn't appear to be any pattern in the BSODs in terms of time or server runtime, they've happened at all hours of the day. I've included a zip file containing the latest minidump, an analyze output from Windbg which shows that DCS.exe is faulting, the DCS.log for that crash, and a System Info. @ED Please let me know what additional information would be helpful in resolving this bug. Thank you, Shepard CSG-8 Dedicated Server-BSOD-2.7.zip

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