I Have the same problem not steam!
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DCS/2.9.2.49629 (x86_64; MT; Windows NT 10.0.22631)
# C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at 00007ff726d22850 00:00000000
SymInit: Symbol-SearchPath: 'I:\Games\DCS World OpenBeta\bin-mt;', symOptions: 532, UserName: 'Gus'
OS-Version: 10.0.22631 () 0x100-0x1
0x00007ff726d22850 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x000000c8bccfd090 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x000000c8bccff410 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x0000000000fe5650 (DCS): SW + 0xB24BB0
0x000001f6e18778f8 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x0000000000000010 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x000000c8bccfb620 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0xffffff3743304a1f ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x000000c8bccfb5e0 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x000000c8bccfbc60 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x0000000000001080 (VCRUNTIME140_1): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x0000000000002715 (VCRUNTIME140_1): __NLG_Return2 + 0x15C5
0x00000000000a3c66 (ntdll): RtlCaptureContext2 + 0x4A6
0x00000000027dddc3 (DCS): AmdPowerXpressRequestHighPerformance + 0x1388DBF
0x0000000000ce45ee (DCS): SW + 0x823B4E
0x000000000001257d (KERNEL32): BaseThreadInitThunk + 0x1D