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Hey, I opened the ticket and thought I might share my steps so far SPOILER: No solution until now... 1) Do not enable MSAA and SSAA at the same time - CAN cause crashes --> Did that, did not change anything. 2) I installed the "memory cleaner" tool, where I can watch RAM and pagefile usage --> Both start normally at around 65% usage. Both increase over time. RAM usage at some "spikes" depending on events in the mission (i guess), but Pagefile usage just slowly counts up towards 100%. With the built in buttons in the tool I can clear and restore a lot of RAM usage over time, however, pagefile usage is not affected and after it reaches 100% it is just a matter of seconds until the crash occurs. This "counting up" even happens when I am idle on the ground, so something must be wrong with pagefile usage in my DCS setup. 3) Run my GPU (NVIDIA) in "Debug mode" --> Did that, did not change anything 4) Lower graphic settings. --> Will do that next, but again: Just a few weeks back everything was fine and worked perfectly well. And now I get these crashes. I do not see the point in changing graphic settings. Especially since it is the same in VR and 2D. EDIT: Just did another test. Joined the server, sat in my KA50 and waited. Just happy idling. And yes, Pagefile slowly increased until 100% and crash.

Repair is still running... But just my thoughts: Something leads DCS to take humongous amounts of (virtual) memory (see second screenshot: 49GB) and it is not releasing the memory again. At some point it just overfills. Maybe my rather high graphic-settings accelarate the process. This did not happen before and started suddenly (independent of Patch/Update). It happens in both my installs (Stable and Open-Beta) and in VR and flatscreen.

Test 1: Deleting Shaders Quite a long session in DCS on 4ya-Server, but again crash. (DCS, Discord, VR-Headset) Again Eventlog shows "out of virtual memory" No Zip-File was created DCS.log shows "not enough memory" entries near the end. Will try the cleanup approach tomorrow. dcs.log

Will try shaders first, then cleanup second. One new thing to add: It happens on both installed versions (stable and open beta) I know that currently both are on the same game version, but the saved games folders and some options will surely be different. I did try a complete repair before, but without the cleanup. Will come back to you once I get more info. According to the server-question: We have been training on SATAL-Servers, this was completely problem free, however, there is way less stuff happening on the ground and we only stay in the mission for less than 30 minutes. Can try i.e. a ROG server as well. So far, 4YA is our go to server for some simple PvE fun, so that is why I based it on this for now. Anyways, thanks for the additional tipps!

So, just spend roundabout 45 Minutes on the 4YA again until it crashed again. Again, Headset black, Discord frozen, DCS crashed. In the Win-Event-Viewer the error looks a bit different this time, but again, a few minutes before the crash I got a "not enough virtual memory" entry. However this time without the information about which game is taking which amount of memory. I tried to stress the system by looking at different players, ground units, the map, etc. But in the end it crashed in normal flight (cockpit view) dcs.log dcs.log-20230102-215422.zip

Ok, I will do so and report back. (But as quoted above I already tried putting in 32000 (so, not 32768) and 50000 and the problem remained. Let me see if 32768 improves it)

Hi, sorry for the delay... last night was a bit "long" First of all: Happy new year to all of you! Second: DCS.Log is attached here dcs.log

Hi all, since roundabout a week I have the following re-occurring error. DCS has a CTD. Simultaneously my Discord will crash (freeze) and sometimes also other applications (like SRS, WMR, etc.) Checking the eventlog shows that DCS is reaching a virtual memory limit. (DCS is taking more than 50GB of virtual memory in these messages) (See attached picture, sorry, log is in German) So basically I see that the PC runs out of virtual memory and then crashes big time. I did try tinkering with my pagefile. Setting it to 32GB manually to match my RAM or even setting it to way higher values. No change from the option when it is being automatically set. This so far only happens on 4YA-Servers after varying amounts of playtime (10-45 minutes). Yesterday on a Scrim-Server I could play without problems. It occurs in VR and in flat. Any suggestions for a fix? Strangely enough this error just came out of nowhere and was not introduced with a new patch. Sorry, I am not an expert with all those sort of logs. Please tell me if anything else is needed. Best regards! dcs.log-20221231-165637.zip

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