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@Flappie bon jour mon ami. what are your thoughts on this one? yes this is a weird part.

yes i understand a CNAME. i am a sys admin since late 80s. i just wanted to point it out. have you confirmed the credentials are correct? forum account is not synchronized with the game creds. they can be if the user chooses to.

hello. i searched too and did not find much and no solved topics. i did see mention of checking to see if IPv6 is enabled on your network you use to connect to Internet.

here are my results. interesting thing is cdn.digitalcombatsimulator.com is a CNAME DNS. the IP of the landing server is different for me than you got yesterday. ping cdn.digitalcombatsimulator.com Pinging 1231349722.rsc.cdn77.org [109.61.91.230] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 109.61.91.230: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=57 Reply from 109.61.91.230: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=57 Reply from 109.61.91.230: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=57 Reply from 109.61.91.230: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=57 Ping statistics for 109.61.91.230: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 10ms, Maximum = 12ms, Average = 11ms ping www.digitalcombatsimulator.com Pinging digitalcombatsimulator.com [93.115.211.146] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 93.115.211.146: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=56 Reply from 93.115.211.146: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=56 Reply from 93.115.211.146: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=56 Reply from 93.115.211.146: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=56 Ping statistics for 93.115.211.146: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 109ms, Maximum = 112ms, Average = 110ms tracert cdn.digitalcombatsimulator.com Tracing route to 1231349722.rsc.cdn77.org [109.61.91.231] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms G3100.myfiosgateway.com [192.168.1.1] 2 31 ms 1 ms 2 ms lo0-100.NRFLVA-VFTTP-314.verizon-gni.net [96.225.167.1] 3 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms 100.41.26.72 4 * * * Request timed out. 5 14 ms 16 ms 14 ms ash-b2-link.ip.twelve99.net [80.239.135.178] 6 13 ms 15 ms 14 ms datacamp-ic-383202.ip.twelve99-cust.net [62.115.10.98] 7 13 ms 14 ms 14 ms vl211.ash-eq10-acc-1.cdn77.com [185.229.188.185] 8 14 ms 15 ms 14 ms 433349391.ash.cdn77.com [109.61.91.231] Trace complete. tracert www.digitalcombatsimulator.com Tracing route to digitalcombatsimulator.com [93.115.211.146] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms G3100.myfiosgateway.com [192.168.1.1] 2 4 ms 4 ms 5 ms lo0-100.NRFLVA-VFTTP-314.verizon-gni.net [96.225.167.1] 3 10 ms 7 ms 9 ms 100.41.26.72 4 * * * Request timed out. 5 12 ms 11 ms 12 ms lag-78.ear2.wdc12.sp.lumen.tech [4.68.75.97] 6 * 111 ms 108 ms ae2.7.ear1.zur2.neo.colt.net [171.75.8.1] 7 130 ms 112 ms 112 ms GREEN.CH-AG.ear1.Zurich3.Level3.net [213.242.82.42] 8 109 ms 109 ms 110 ms 146.228.55.4 9 124 ms 120 ms 240 ms 109-106-19-250.static.xelon.ch [109.106.19.250] 10 110 ms 109 ms 110 ms www.digitalcombatsimulator.com [93.115.211.146] Trace complete. i have less hops from me to both locations. to confirm your issue, you are having problems getting to the servers to login to play MP? do updates work?

i understand. but increased latency is better than not connecting at all. @sleighzy suggests a good start. you can also do a trace route after the pings. tracert cdn.digitalcombatsimulator.com tracert www.digitalcombatsimulator.com

hello. unfortunately people in parts of the world have issues connecting to DCS and VPN is a good workaround. DCS does not, i would not think anyway, block any country. it is likely a problem on your end. you mention you can connect via IP. this could be a DNS issue on your PC or with your ISP. reset your computer and network equipment first and try again. it may require contacting your ISP.

doh PNG not JPG. i personally have never seen a PNG used either though. can you give me a link to one of the skins so i can try? also, can you post your dcs.log?

you may know this already but in case. in file explorer browse to the folder. then in the URL type CMD and hit enter. command prompt will open. then type DIR /b /o:n > c:\temp\whatEverYouWant.txt this will be a listing of the contents. i did notice in my two examples. there were many other files in the folder since the preUnified example. and no %20 in the preUnified example.

hello. good to hear you are flying again. i do suggest that you add exceptions for the folders because this issue will most likely come back. every update someone has troubles and it sometimes turns out to be AV. these DLLs get changed during development, then AV has no idea the status of the new file. this is defender but the premise is the same.

hello. i have two txt files above and a screen shot of the offending file names.

there is no doc by DCS. i personally understand what they are supposed to do but have not created a doc. if you have a particular question, i can surely try to answer.

hello. i personally do not have this folder Saved Games\DCS\Scripts\DCS-ExportScript\ExportsModules. you could try by creating the folders manually as per instructions if there are any that mention its existence. make a note and delete if something goes awry.

hello. i believe and did a quick search of the two file types on my system that DDS are the actual skins. JPG are representations of things like "buy me" icons, screenshot of a missile firing, etc. in my experience with creating skins, i have never used JPG. can you post your dcs.log?

try to replace the %20 with a space in every file. %20 is web code for space. though as i said, i do not have any freezes in my system. i have the same contents of folder ImagesShop.

correct. i bet MT one is leftover.

yes both are normal. the MT folder will eventually go away. C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin is the more important of the two. target is "C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\DCS_updater.exe" start in is "C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta" adjust to your folder names. null

hello. post your DCS.LOG too. there may be some clues. found in saved games\dcs\logs

no worries. you did the right thing posting your own because you discovered a plausible cause.

i also replied to this pinned topic. it gave me an idea and posted in the other topic my findings.

interesting find and good troubleshooting. i am not sure if this matters. when ED distributed the patch to unify the versions, i made a copy of my Saved Games folder. at that time the imagesShop folder had not as many JPG of the cover art for all the different modules, terrains, campaigns, etc. in the latest patch there are several JPG that have % in the file names. null wondering if you have any of these items? i have a feeling that the old names are being referenced and the DCS menu if having troubles. thus freezing. i have none of them so i do not see freezing. imagesShop-preunified.txtimagesShop-latestUpdate.txt

hello. i translated your message. it mentions HOST file. this file is located here. C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc open it with NOTEPAD and share the contents of the file. if i understand, it has an invalid entry. here is mine. # Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp. # # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows. # # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should # be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name. # The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one # space. # # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol. # # For example: # # 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host # localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself. # 127.0.0.1 localhost # ::1 localhost normally there is nothing in this file. anything with # in front is commented out.

hello. you should post the dcs.log created when the dcs freezes. also share the miz so we can try to see what we get.

no AV at all? this message is common with AV blocking. looks like an issue with the KOLA map. if you can get into DCS without running the update, disable KOLA in modules. then update. then re-enable KOLA and try again. i have all the above exclusions in my AV and have no issues with KOLA or any other of the terrains. i have them all on my system.

hello. check to see if your AV is blocking the update. also it is suggested to add exclusions to AV to prevent future problems. also you can download the latest updater here. http://updates.digitalcombatsimulator.com/files/DCS_updater_64bit.zip replace the current dcs_updater.exe file in C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin with one found in zip.

oh so your issue was not resolved? the problem with marking a topic as resolved when it is not resolved is the green checkmark will appear on the post and some poor hapless soul will see it and think YAY and then get a letdown when it is not resolved.