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Thanks for your help silverdevil! Renaming saved games to DCS.bak to force create another DCS.openbeta file worked! I moved over my input files and scripts and preferences easily. I wonder what the issue was? Thanks again!

options-old 29Jul25.lua above is the options lua file I renamed in attempt to force DCS to create a new one. I ran DCS after I renamed to -old 29Jul25.lua and don't see another options.lua file in the same location. I'll try renaming the saved games DCS to DCS.bak and report back. Thanks for the responses so far.

Thanks for the reply @Silverdevil. I have tried to open DCS.exe from inside the BIN folder (see first attached log) and the BIN-mt folder (2nd attached log) which ends up with the same results (blank launcher screen). I changed the name of the options.lua file located to options-old27Jul25.lua located in the following path Savedgames>DCS.openbeta>config>Options.lua and ran the DCS.exe files in both BIN & BIN-mt folders and noticed a new options.lua file hasn't been created in the savedgames>>config folder. how do I check to ensure I have the recent visual c++ 14.44.35211 installed? and if I don't what are the steps to install it? ** Edit: confirmed latest visual c++ installed, see screen shot** Thanks again for the help. dcs.log dcs.log

Today, 27July2025 I updated DCS and my graphics card drivers and have not been able to launch DCSdcs.log. I have researched a few similar posts and 1) in my saved games options.lua I do not have the "Launcher" line item to set from 'true' to 'false' 2) I have done a cleanup and slow repair on the within the bin folder (not the bin-mt folder) 3) I deleted the contents within the fxo and metashaders2 folders (I left the empty folders in the location) & 4) I am trying to avoid renaming my saved games folder name to minimize the other actions that would need to happen to transfer bindings, etc. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance. My comp specs are: GPU 3080ti (Nvidia GeForce RTX) CPU: intel i9 10th gen 10850k 3.6Ghz RAM: 64GB