Same issue here - DCS/2.8.2.35759 - standalone server
Previously I managed to get it to run if I just tried often enough. Now it doe snot want to come up anymore.
It hangs first at line:
2023-02-16 08:27:18.690 INFO APP (Main): CPU cores: 2, threads: 2, System RAM: 25598 MB, Pagefile: 3712 MB
For around 2-3 minutes, then advances to line:
2023-02-16 08:30:20.409 INFO EDCORE (Main): Loaded C:/DCS World OpenBeta Server/bin/CockpitBase.dll
and gets stuck indefinitely there as also reported here:
Dried the dll delete, tried repair, tried the empty exe.local file.
No joy