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Hi again Bignewy Have enabled debug mode in the Nvidea control panel and still experiencing several crashes in MP today. Can also offer some new findings: Crash occurs within seconds of selecting a different aircraft on a multiplayer server. For example, playing Pretense, I can fly the Apache for an hour, land, and then switch to a Hornet (within the same session), re-arm and once I select air to ground mode, DCS instant crash. I've replicated this many times today. If I restart DCS, login to the MP server and start with the Hornet, then it's fine. If I start with the Mi24 Hind and then switch to the apache in the same session, crash. Here is the latest crash file. Any suggestions on what I might try next please? dcs.log-20240316-005304.zip

Thanks mate, will do. Ill report back in a week.

DCS MT has been randomly crashing to desktop at different times in different MP maps and missions. Current crash was in Pretense Caucasus, in FA18, but its also been happening in the Apache, Huey and Hind. Am using TrackIR, latest nvidea drivers 551.76. There are some non-official mods installed, but it was crashing before the mods were installed so I dont feel thats related. SRS is installed and in use during the session. Frames are fine, it's just unstable and Ive no idea why. Kindly request someone look at the attached crash log and point me in the right direction of the culprit please. Thanks in advance. dcs.log-20240314-120538.zip

Thank you for the detailed reply @Thinder The RAM i have is Patriot Viper Steel Series DDR4 64GB (2x32GB) 3600MHz PC4-28800 Dual Memory Kit - PVS464G360C8K CL18 :( You've made a good suggestion about the CPU and RAM bottleneck that I hadnt considered. Very difficult to find CL14 ram though, and at the cost, would it not be better to invest in DDR5 and a new LGA1700 CPU? How much more performance could one squeeze from CL14 over CL16 RAM? Again, I appreciate your time and advice mate.

Hi friends Could I please trouble you for some advice? I've been toying with the idea of upgrading my Rift S to the Varjo Aero. However, I've recently tried the Rift S in DCS again and my VR performance is still dissatisfying (flying Apache gets me 40fps on some SP maps and as low as 20fps on MP servers). So that kind of implies that my system would struggle to get the best out of the aero, if it cant even handle the Rift S. I've tried to optimise DCS settings, but feel I've hit a wall. Id be happy with a consistent 40fps on a nice VR headset. PC Specs Asus Z490 Gaming i7-10700KF running at 4.9G 64G RAM Asus GTX3080 (mild curve overclock) nvme drives for OS and DCS Win10 Openvr tells me that my CPU is the usual culprit that runs out of headroom on MP servers. And in SP, i tend to get GPU headroom limits. In an ideal world, Id go a faster LGA1700 CPU and a 4080, but that would be a substantially big upgrade cost on top of the aero. So, I'm not sure what to do here. Either way, the Rift S has to go. If not the Aero, then perhaps the Reverb G2 as an interim? Would appreciate any advice on the most sensible path forward. Cheers

Sounds fantastic man, thanks for the detailed reply and your on-going efforts to make this even better.

@Surrexen Mate, thank you for making this superb mission! It's occupied our small team for a couple of weeks now and it's invigorated several of our bored pilots. Is there any way I can send you a paypal donation or a virtual beer as a thank you? I've been learning the mission editor and changing some things around for our squad too (mostly successfully). We have a bug with helo trigger zones where I can spawn cargo or troops, but cant pick them up. If I switch to another helo slot i can collect them straight away. This happened after i deleted some un-used aircraft slots from the farp and moved the other farp further north. Any ideas? I guess there is some dependency baked into one of the lua scripts. Not a big deal but thought id ask. Can you provide any guidelines about editing your missions without breaking them? For eg, do helo trigger zones need to be within a certain distance from the farp or a certain distance apart? Can we add extra farps beside Paris and London and have the scripts still work at them? I was unable to get this working (tried adding a third farp with a different name). Also, this evening, we completed Phase 4 by capturing all the required airfields, but when we check battle phase, it says "unable to determine phase". Have checked the mission docs and googled around but couldnt find any info. Thanks again for making these - best missions I've played in 10 years.

About to fly this and noticed a typo in the briefing, thought id mention it here rather than start a separate topic. Prince's brief sets Joker at 6000. Designer notes reminds to call Joker at 7000. :thumbup:

This is solid advice and exactly what I did, but it still failed. JDAM dropped on the correct location but it didnt trigger. I then asked #2 to drop, but he just maintained orbit.

Disregard. I was able to restore application window via the sys tray right click method.

Since last nvidea update, my dcs updater launches, check that i have the right version but there is no more gui. I see it in my task tray and sys tray, but I just doesn't pop up. Anyone else?

Hey Skatezille - good to see that you're still evolving this great app. Would it possible for you to integrate a feature to backup key/joystick bindings?

Just want to offer a word of thanks and encouragement Chromium. I really appreciate the work you're doing here mate - this will be a huge game changer. Keep up the great work!

Superb campaign! Just wanted to leave my heartfelt thanks BD. You have a natural talent for this kind of work mate and I look forward to more from you. This really helped me to learn this jet and my only wish at the end was for more missions! 10/10 Dziękuję! :D

Sick. Thanks mate

Hi SkateZilla Thanks for making this fantastic app. I'm having issues managing two installs - OpenAlpha and OpenBeta. OpenBeta works. OpenAlpha will not open and says I need to repair DCS.exe. I can manually open OpenAlpha from shortcut (ie, it does not need repair). I've noted that when trying to select the Build to Manage, the Current Folder version stays with the OpenBeta directory. Have tried selecting Alpha and then saving Path Settings, no joy. Access to Installs is verified. Am running Version 12.18.2016 of the GUI. The DCS Updater Utility is located in the working OpenBeta directory only. Hope you can help.

Thanks for your updates on these mate. Awesome.

Thank you for these updates Baltic. Love your work!

Thank you for posting this info mate. :thumbup:

Many thanks for this mod and repaint Devrim. 10/10 mate. Guys like you should have a patreon page where people like us can show our appreciation in more tangible ways :)

Thanks for this guide Chuck. I spent hours studying it last night.

Wow, awesome. Thanks very much mate! :thumbup:

Can you guys get this to work with DCS 1.5? If so, would really appreciate some instructions, as it's got me stumped.

Has anyone worked out how to get SweetFX working with DCS 1.5?

Wolle, Thanks very much for fixing the missions, its very much appreciated. The changes you've made so far are a big improvement and I've managed to complete the Liquidator mission now. Many thanks... have repped you for being so proactive with your campaign :) Is it difficult to design campaigns like these? Id like to give it a try myself but feel bewildered even making simple missions in that editor, lol.