You figured it out notproplayer3!
Got this from ED: "let's try to completely disable your antivirus software, then delete this file (sa342.dll) if it present, then run DCS repair and after all check the game play with Gazelle" because it still failed to work after a reinstall. It WAS Malwarebytes that caused the problem. I disabled it, did a repair and it all works again. My guess is I need to whitelist the SA342.dll file. Anyhow it's working again. Thanks for the assistance here, guys.