Mr_Blastman

After multiple attempts to append to the download by starting the downloader over and over... I finished downloading! Then... I failed in the unpacking. The leopard_2a error is cropping up over and over. It is as if there is corruption in the install package we are downloading from the server. Also, every time I start the updater again it finds hundreds of files with zero bytes. autoupdate_log.txt

Subsequent attempt to append to prior download resulted in yet another crash. autoupdate_log.txt

I do not think this is our SSD that is the problem and I will outline why: I created a "hard link" to the x:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\_downloads folder from a new \dcsdownloads folder I made on a traditional platter drive. "hard link" is a term for those familiar with Unix/Linux/BSD/etc., otherwise known as a "junction" in Windows 10. What does this mean? Well, when you access the x:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\_downloads folder, the default update folder, you are actually accessing it on another hard drive than the SSD--i.e. all downloading and unpacking will be done on the platter drive instead of the SSD. DCS doesn't know the difference, as this link is invisible. I essentially tricked DCS to use another hard drive to do the downloading and unpacking on, while keeping the game and everything else on the SSD. When I did this... Same problem. This update is bugged. There's something broken with where we're downloading our file from. I live in Georgia in North America. Perhaps DCS sorts downloads by region? This is frustrating as heck. ED please address and fix. Latest error log is attached. autoupdate_log.txt

Thanks, I'll check that out. Do you happen to know if there's a way to set the installer to download and unpack updates on a different hard drive before copying over to the Eagle Dynamics folder on the primary operation drive?

No, it is a standard issue Samsung 1 TB EVO drive.

I do not have anywhere close the required space on another drive for DCS. Latest attempted solution: Tried new updater. Still failed. The issue seems to be with the unpacking of files. Why was this not an issue in past updates? What is going on here? Is there a way to download a single, comprehensive zip of this update?

Please someone help.

Yet another failed attempt. I'm really becoming disheartened here. Please help someone. I ran error checks on the drive. I trimmed the drive. Nothing has shown up as wrong with my machine. autoupdate_log.txt

I literally hit a wall at 2534.6 MB downloaded of 10,700.8 MBytes every time. Bam. Downloads nearly halt and throttles down. Meanwhile Steam and everything else is downloading and installing fine...

Latest update log... autoupdate_log.txt

I have been able to update DCS fine with every update over the past seven months. Today, that streak of running well ended. I cannot apply today's update for the AH-64 module. Currently, I have 18 modules and I'm dead in the water. They're paperweights now, as I play mostly online. What can I do? The update is failing always the same way at the same spot. For whatever reason the updater is making my SSD drive for DCS vanish. It then re-appears. The drive is new, Samsung Evo, works fine for everything else. I even verified by copying a 50 gb game install over to the drive this afternoon without errors. Still, even after that, these problems persist. I cannot update DCS. I have attached two error logs. I have been waiting months to try the Apache. Please help! Thanks. Solutions tried so far: Free up space. Didn't work. Turn off antivirus. Didn't work. Reboot a million times. Didn't work. Uninstall the Syria theater to make the download smaller. Didn't work. Edit: This update is bizarre, at about 2.5 gigabytes downloaded EVERY SINGLE TIME my throughput drops from 11mb/sec to nearly 0 and everything grinds to a halt and my SSD becomes bogged down by a ridiculous amount of I/O writes. Huge amounts of writes around the 11,500 of 31,064 Mbytes on the completion bar. autoupdate_log.txt autoupdate_log_old.txt

Turned off antivirus completely, still crashing at the exact same spot every time:' "00803.764 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: CoreMods/aircraft/SA342/SA342.lua 00803.765 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: DemoMods/aircraft/AH-64D/Skins/1/icon 76x76.png 00803.766 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: MissionEditor/modules/me_ship.lua 00803.766 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: CoreMods/aircraft/AH-64D/Shapes/AH-64D_rotor_hub_lod.fbx 00803.767 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: Mods/terrains/Caucasus/misc/metacache/base/09995017547c1c9cf3bd419b7e81a80c.meta2 00803.768 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: Mods/terrains/Caucasus/misc/metacache/base/0354f85615dc7fd1334457780d6566bf.meta2 00803.769 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: Mods/terrains/Caucasus/misc/metacache/base/b79a145b0f0e4c601b713265193ee1c8.meta2 00803.770 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: Mods/terrains/Caucasus/misc/metacache/base/01007d0eb1a340eb89b14c96ad9f91bd.meta2 00803.771 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: CoreMods/aircraft/M-2000C/M-2000C.lua 00803.772 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: Scripts/UI/RadioCommandDialogPanel/RadioCommandDialogsPanel.lua 00803.773 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: MissionEditor/modules/me_predicates.lua 00803.774 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: MissionEditor/data/MissionGenerator/GeneratorData/others.lua 00803.774 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: CoreMods/aircraft/Hawk/dcs_manifest.bin 00803.775 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: MissionEditor/modules/me_loadout.lua 00804.329 STATUS: J:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\_downloads\CoreMods/tech/TechWeaponPack/Textures/leopard-2a4.zip: (1167) The device is not connected. 00820.440 === Log closed." "leopard-2a4.zip" seems to be the problem. This looks to be an updater issue. The file does not exist in the path specified when I look in the directory.

This is how they always end: "00803.767 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: Mods/terrains/Caucasus/misc/metacache/base/09995017547c1c9cf3bd419b7e81a80c.meta2 00803.768 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: Mods/terrains/Caucasus/misc/metacache/base/0354f85615dc7fd1334457780d6566bf.meta2 00803.769 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: Mods/terrains/Caucasus/misc/metacache/base/b79a145b0f0e4c601b713265193ee1c8.meta2 00803.770 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: Mods/terrains/Caucasus/misc/metacache/base/01007d0eb1a340eb89b14c96ad9f91bd.meta2 00803.771 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: CoreMods/aircraft/M-2000C/M-2000C.lua 00803.772 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: Scripts/UI/RadioCommandDialogPanel/RadioCommandDialogsPanel.lua 00803.773 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: MissionEditor/modules/me_predicates.lua 00803.774 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: MissionEditor/data/MissionGenerator/GeneratorData/others.lua 00803.774 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: CoreMods/aircraft/Hawk/dcs_manifest.bin 00803.775 INFO : PACK_DECODE_SUCCESS: MissionEditor/modules/me_loadout.lua 00804.329 STATUS: J:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\_downloads\CoreMods/tech/TechWeaponPack/Textures/leopard-2a4.zip: (1167) The device is not connected. 00820.440 === Log closed." "the device is not connected." The device IS connected. I just copied over 17 gigs of programs flawlessly to drive before and after the fail. DCS is crashing the drive, where nothing else will...

Update is literally crashing at the exact same spot every time. At 12595.2 of 80985.4 mbytes it crashes every time and forces my SSD to disconnect from the OS. Downloaded 2709.0 of 35707.7 MBytes. I have deleted 50 gb of other installed programs from the SSD... No fix. I have even copied a file of 5 GB onto the drive to push it past a rough spot, no fix. This is driving me nuts. I have over 190 GB in free space on the drive.

Well this is nice, the updater keeps crashing my computer and rebooting my machine. Maybe I need to uninstall Syria.

DING DING DING the alarm bells ring!

One could always play the latest modded version of EECH for the time being. The AH-64D has been a part of the experience for ages. The flight model in EECH is rather UFO, though, but the systems are there and represented pretty well.

FPS can often drop in multiplayer when the server is overwhelmed or has a high amount of data to send in a short time, such as when lots of smoke appears, tracer fire from AAA, cluster bombs exploding or players joining/leaving and spawning/despawning objects such as aircraft.

You made an adult choice to pre-order and read the disclaimer like the rest of us before pressing buy. Now you get to continue be an adult and wait patiently like the rest of us. Better many of the bugs are worked out before release than us to be throwing our equipment at our monitors because we're angry.

My first combat simulator ever: One of my favorites, though:

This thing is a UFO. It seems to have no momentum effects whatsoever.

Are there any plans for Petrovich giving more details of what he sees through his scope such as... 1) That is a good guy, dumbass! Don't shoot at him! 2) That's a filthy blue tank, waste it. To me, it would make sense that he would at least be able to discern what vehicle he is looking at and if it is friendly/enemy, and even give the exact name of the vehicle. Currently he does not.

Viper is game of Gradius without the shield power up. Don't get hit.

Flares flares? Where is this? I have never heard such a thing from Petrovich.

Interesting. I was not aware of this. I'm more interested in Petrovich having these abilities for use on online multiplayer servers with pvp.