Mik75

Hi there! I just had to buy the excellent AH64D... Although I´m still in the demanding process of learning the Tomcat, the Apache was just too tempting... In the Tomcat, I´m pretty happy with Jester/ Iceman, and I´ve got everything set up and it´s working flawlessly. In the AH64, I still have some problems with understanding the AI integration. Fitst of all, when the aircraft is trimmed and flying nicely, as soon as I jump to the CPG seat, the aircraft becomes totally untrimmed and very hard to control, although in the CPG menu, all controls are mapped the same way as in the pilot seat. Why is that? And how can I jump into the front seat, with the AI taking control, and holding pitch/ attitude automatically? Thanks a lot in advance!

Thx for your answers guys, good to know that it's a reproducible issue. Not a bic one, though. The F-14 module is really a work of art and so much fun to fly.

Superb! That's very good to know! Thanks a lot for your effort!

Well, the could be the reason. But I've not read about anyone else experiencing it.

Ok, interesting. So what do you think could be the cause of the freezes?

According to them, running MSAA and SSAA together could potentially cause any sort of strange issues.

So, with SSAA disabled, I get 14-16 fps more in average, but still the same freeze after shutdown, again with sound errors... dcs.log

I'll definitely try turning SSAA off tonight. And then I'll see if that is the solution to the problem.

Yeah. I watched the tutorial by Spudknocker, his in game graphics are pretty nice. And he uses MSAA and SSAA simultaneously.

The ED support just got back to me. They suggest, not turning on MSAA and SSAA at the same time, which I have (looks absolutely marvelous), plus increasing the size of the page file, which I already did, thanks to your suggestions. So, I'll try experimenting with different AA settings. Which would you recommend (I run a RTX 3060Ti 8GB @ 1080p) for nice clean look AND good performance? Right now, according to the log file, I get an average of 95 fps.

Well, it's not a huge issue. In flight, the RIO position doesn't seem to cause any problems. I'd just like to rule out any possible hardware or configuration issues with my new system in the first place. The F-14 is so much fun, I just can't stop flying it.

Yes. I've excluded DCS and ran several repairs now. But still these strange sound errors appear. I've just posted in the F-14 forum...

Hi there! I have a strange issue with the F-14: The game freezes from time to time. Sometimes after initial load of a mission, and very often after I've shut down the engines and I jump into the RIO seat. The sim becomes unresponsive, and I have to end it via the task manager. When I check the log, it seems that always a sound error (or multiple sound errors, like file xy missing etc) is among the last entries of the file. The system it runs on is 2 weeks old, and I've checked everything to rule out any hardware issues. Thx a lot in advance for your help. dcs.log.txt

I can definitely trigger it almost 100% by shutting down the engines. I can jump to the the outside views without problems, but it seems that as soon as I hit the "2" key for the RIO seat, the sim freezes. That wouldn't be a huge issue, but since the system is completely new, I'm a bit concerned that this might be caused by some hardware issue. I'll check the Heatblur forum for sure. Thx a lot!

It doesn't happen with a specific mission. It also happened directly after loading a training mission. Most of the times, I can trigger it by shutting down the engines, and after that, jumping into the RIO seat. Ok, as I mentioned at the beginning of the thread, I've checked the system with several benchmarks and stress tests. It's 2 weeks old now, and there's nothing on it yet, other than DCS. I've just seen, that there's a new BIOS version for my B550 mainboard. I'll definitely update it anytime soon. Isn't it strange, that these errors are caused by sound files that I can't manually find on my machine?

Thx a lot! I did that, I added DCS to the exclusions. I also reinstalled the Realtek sound driver, but still no luck. Shutting down, jumping to the RIO seat, and the game freezed, again with a new error code, again concerning sound... Could it be a hardware related issue? Something like bad RAM? dcs.log

And another freeze, this time after loading a situation has just been finished. Again, some strange sound error... Oh my... DCS has always been super stable for me. But it´s been pretty slow on my old machine. Now it runs super smooth on my new computer, but is not stable anymore... dcs.log

I´ve changed the page file to 32 GB, looked for the missing sound file, couldn´t find it, checked the settings in MS Defender, but unfortunately, the same again: I land at Batumi, shutdown the engines, and when I want to switch to the RIO, the game freezes. The new log shows the same missing sound files... Edit: I installed the suggested Updater Utility and I´m doing another repair right now... I've opened a support ticket with ED as well. It's really a strange one... dcs.log

I´ve changed it to 32GB, as you suggested. The drive is an M.2 SSD, Samsung Evo 970. I have 32GB of phyiscal RAM installed, which peaks out at 65% of uasge, according to my analysis tool. But we´ll see if that makes any diffference...

Ok. I'll check Microsoft Defender. That's the only Anti virus I'm using. Thx for the tip with the tool. This file can´t be found on my drive... very strange.

Thx for your answers, guys. This is a clean install, once repaired as suggested. I've got Tacview, other than that no plugins or mods are installed.

So, I had another hang, which I could only escape via ending the game through the task manager. I flew a longer training session, without any issues, and again, after landing, when I switched to the RIO seat, the sim froze. Here´s the log file, it contains quite a few errors, and at the end, there are some errors concerning sounds... dcs.log

Ok, that's good to know! Thanks a lot for confirmation!

Thx a lot. So it's a bug. For me it appears whenever I use the auto throttle, even without touching the auto pilot.

Thanks a lot! And same question here as Jagdgeschwader: Are these critical errors that may potentially crash and/or freeze the sim? And what about these DX11Backend errors (concerning missing cloud shadows, etc.)?