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Hi Guys - not sure if this is the best place for this thread, but I'll give it a try. I'm not sure when exactly this started, but in both F/A-18 and F14 I notice I'm having throttle issues and I'm unsure if it's a hardware problem or calibration issue or something else. The problem statement is this - at full physical throttle, I'll get afterburner for a split second and then as soon as I stop moving the phyiscal throttle I can see in the cockpit that the throttles have jumped back to the end of MIL power range (same results in Tomcat and Hornet). I've tried unplugging the throttle, calibration in windows, reset to default, etc. to no avail. I use the RealSimulator TUSBA w/ Cougar HOTAS for F16 and I have no problems there. Any ideas?

Thanks for the suggestion - it indeed appears the GPU was overheating, the fan speed stayed at 14% no matter what. So I forced it to full speed and no crashing issues even with all 3 monitors active again.

Hey Gang - I've got crashing issues in both DCS and DCS Open Beta. I recently did a completely clean install of Windows 10 and DCS and the issue persisted. It seems to be worse if I use all 3 monitors, I'll get a variable amount of time flying - sometimes 5 minutes, sometimes 20 minutes - and then it'll crash but not back to desktop, the sound will continue on but the screens go blank and the fans on the video card and/or CPU go full tilt. I have to hard reset the machine from there. Nothing in event viewer and the DCS log doesn't have anything useful - just some sound related errors: 2019-07-29 22:21:53.447 WARNING F-14: F-14 Build vs DCS version mismatch! Built with: 2.5.5.32533, DCS is: 2.5.5.33184 2019-07-29 22:21:54.986 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(F14_PILOT_COCKPIT:aircrafts\engines\f110intakeint_01): gain 2019-07-29 22:21:54.987 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(F14_PILOT_COCKPIT:aircrafts\engines\f110engineint01): gain 2019-07-29 22:21:54.987 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(F14_PILOT_COCKPIT:aircrafts\engines\f110intakeint_02): gain 2019-07-29 22:21:54.987 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(F14_PILOT_COCKPIT:aircrafts\engines\f110engineint02): gain 2019-07-29 22:21:54.997 INFO WORLDGENERAL: loaded from mission Scripts/World/birds.lua 2019-07-29 22:21:54.997 INFO DCS: dbox not found , skip 2019-07-29 22:21:55.082 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 0 0 squares 2019-07-29 22:21:55.082 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 1 0 squares 2019-07-29 22:21:55.082 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() 0.328500 ms 2019-07-29 22:21:55.124 INFO VISUALIZER: Preload() camera=-74119.240225, 2057.836448, -38448.772018 radius=60000.000000 2019-07-29 22:21:55.124 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: ITerrainGraphicsImpl4::forceLoading(): pos=(-74119.2, 2057.84, -38448.8), radius=60000 2019-07-29 22:21:55.299 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 clean up LOD 0: left 25 released 35 2019-07-29 22:21:55.299 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 clean up 1.624700 ms 2019-07-29 22:21:56.566 ERROR SOUND: can't load wave: "effects\aircrafts\engines\f14_rear_distant_02" 2019-07-29 22:21:57.608 ERROR SOUND: can't load wave: "foley\floppylever_start_257" 2019-07-29 22:21:57.998 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 clean up LOD 1: left 52 released 17 2019-07-29 22:21:57.998 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 clean up 0.769100 ms 2019-07-29 22:21:58.385 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 clean up 0.000200 ms 2019-07-29 22:21:59.194 WARNING LOG: 1 duplicate message(s) skipped. 2019-07-29 22:21:59.194 ERROR SOUND: can't load wave: "effects\aircrafts\engines\j79-17_eng2_reheat" 2019-07-29 22:22:02.377 ERROR_ONCE DX11BACKEND: texture 'bake2pan_normals' not found. Asked from 'NGMODEL' 2019-07-29 22:22:04.690 INFO VISUALIZER: Preload() finished 2019-07-29 22:22:04.695 INFO DCS: Screen: mission_offline 2019-07-29 22:22:04.695 INFO Dispatcher: precache units resources in slots 2019-07-29 22:22:04.768 INFO Lua: Lua CPU usage: metric: average mission loading: 5.1576 % 2019-07-29 22:22:04.768 INFO Dispatcher: loadMission Done: Сontrol passed to the player 2019-07-29 22:22:08.551 ERROR DX11BACKEND: Failed assert `false && "unknown format"` at Projects\render\dx11backend_win8\Source\DX11Utils.cpp:39 2019-07-29 22:22:08.551 WARNING DX11BACKEND: Texture './Mods/aircraft/F14/Cockpit/Resources/IndicationTextures/HB_VDI_Broken.dds' has unknown format: 95 2019-07-29 22:22:32.521 INFO Lua: Lua CPU usage: metric: average mission execution: 1.7173 % 2019-07-29 22:23:48.055 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(woLA-16781568:aircrafts\engines\su27aroundengine2): gain 2019-07-29 22:23:48.056 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(woLA-16781824:aircrafts\engines\su27aroundengine2): gain 2019-07-29 22:24:09.378 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(woLA-16820224:aircrafts\engines\f110afterburnerrearclose): gain 2019-07-29 22:24:09.815 WARNING LOG: 1 duplicate message(s) skipped. 2019-07-29 22:24:09.815 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 0 206 squares 2019-07-29 22:24:09.820 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 1 211 squares 2019-07-29 22:24:09.820 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() 14.756800 ms 2019-07-29 22:24:14.047 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 0 134 squares 2019-07-29 22:24:14.049 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 1 134 squares 2019-07-29 22:24:14.049 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() 8.834300 ms 2019-07-29 22:24:51.790 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(woLA-16782080:aircrafts\engines\su27aroundengine2): gain 2019-07-29 22:24:51.791 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(woLA-16782336:aircrafts\engines\su27aroundengine2): gain 2019-07-29 22:24:55.274 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(F14_PILOT_COCKPIT:aircrafts\f-14\windrushing): gain 2019-07-29 22:25:53.892 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(woLA-16785152:aircrafts\engines\su27aroundengine2): gain 2019-07-29 22:25:53.893 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(woLA-16785408:aircrafts\engines\su27aroundengine2): gain System Specs: Gigabyte 990FX Gaming AMD FX8350 Radeon Vega 64 Frontier Edition 16GB - triple Dell 25" 2560x1440 monitors 32GB Kingston Hyper X 1866 M.2 512GB SSD OS (Windows 10) Samsung 480GB SSD (one for DCS and one for DCS Open Beta) Any suggestions?