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It's ok I solved it - I didn't realize Marianas doesn't work in Fast Mission mode.

LEGEND! I had not read the release notes <guilty> and this is what I was doing wrong! Thank you

Here is a test with the Page File override just to test - no improvement. dcs.log

Page File was set to automatic - I have 64GB of RAM and when I went in to check it happened to be at 9GB. I don't want to manually override it if I don't need to. Wouldn't it expand/adjust as required? I don't have any mods in my User Files. I have just tried deleting "C:\Users\%username%\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\fxo" and doing a repair. No change - still crashes loading at 9%. dcs.log

Ok good idea, thanks both. Give me half a day and I will try and report back

Any clues? This is after a clean install of the standalone game,dcs.log with only Marianas module installed.

Ok rapidly losing patience this this game LOL. Tonight I tried the repair you mentioned by deleting the Marianas files and it made no difference. So then I uninstalled DCS. Restarted and reinstalled. I have only installed the Marianas module so far from a clean install and get this.... it still crashes. I added an exclusion to Windows Defender for the Game too so that the AV doesn't interfere. Log file attached. dcs.log

Ok a bit of an update. I migrated to the standalone version. Did a successful repair and I am still getting a crash loading Marianas. Here is the latest logfile. The process I followed to ditch Steam is below for info. This all worked fine. Edit: I've also tried a few other aircraft and maps I downloaded and have had lots of crashes and errors. Is it worth a total uninstall and reinstall? I can't get The Channel map to run either. Download installer from ED Untick "download" at end of setup Copy across files from Steam to Standalone Change STEAM to ED in retail.cfg Run Repair DCS World (don't delete any files yet) Start the game, activate the modules you want, and run Repair DCS World again dcs.log

Ok so it’s best to switch away from Steam then - if I can keep my addons, I’m happy to try that

I’d agree except I purchased a lot of add-ons in Steam

I can confirm there is no executable file with that name in the directory - is that a Steam "feature"? Any way to repair properly using Steam? Or just uninstall and reinstall? The only applications in 'bin' are: DCS edCefCrashpadProcess edCefRenderProcess edm_tool luae ModelViewer2 Edit: Steam repair completes but makes no difference? Time to uninstall and reinstall? How can I save my joystick mappings

I think I will need those terminal commands. Steam has a file integrity check, which passes first time without issue. There are no start menu shortcuts as you launch the game from Steam.

Here is the log file. Thanks for the offer to try and help resolve this! dcs.log

I downloaded the Marianas map from Steam and it does not load. Anytime I select the map for a mission / flight, nothing happens - I just get returned to the home screen without any error. Any ideas? I have DCS World 2.7.3