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hmm. i am running out of ideas. being that COD is also crashing, seems to be pointing to an issue outside of the games. maybe hardware going bad. not sure. what did support person say about chkdsk?

no problem. i mentioned the OC because your sig says you have "ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4090 OC". OC means the card is factory overclock.

the event logs do not show a crash with DCS that crashes "normally". meaning the DCS crash that creates the ZIP in the DCS Saved Games folder. in my case i had a crash 2/4/2024. there was a ZIP but nothing in the event logs. your DCS crash logs do not show the normal DCS crash. do you overclock? even factory OC on your GFX card could be causing an issue. you could set your nvidia driver to debug to see if it helps. take a look at the last bit on this page. https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3141/~/how-to-provide-valuable-feedback-to-nvidia

good to hear. i am a sysadmin, and troubleshooting sometimes goes back to "check everything again."

roger. good luck and clear skies.

indeed. cinebench does not stress your drives. (unless i am missing something) have you tried some other drive diag software? or just run chkdsk? have you checked in Windows event viewer for any errors happening at the time of the crashes?

unfortunately i am not seeing a lot of commonality between LOGs. and the LOGs do not indicate a crash as one would normally see. a crash starts with this line. have you emptied the FXO and METASHADERS2 folders in Saved Games? i do see some entries about having to recompile some shaders.

roger. i have that and will see how it goes. AH-64D_IA_MAR_Hitchhiker.miz

hello. there is a video on YT that may help with simhaptic. it looks like you can enable certain scenarios i.e. catapult. i do not have any haptic devices so i have nothing to test.

standard mission? what AC? please post and we can try to see what results we get.

hello, this may be related to your other post about AV. try again after removing unofficial mods, adding exclusions to AV and doing a repair.

there are lots of these reports in the forum. the problem is your AV is finding various DLLs in DCS and marking them suspicious. if you feel comfortable, add DCS folders to exceptions. this is also know to speed up the loading.

news about the delay (and other news) is on the main DCS website. or just keep playing. eventually it will update. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/

@Recon Stewart back in the day printers with too long of a USB cable could malfunction. i agree with suggestions to introduce a second hub.

you have another large monitor? from your sig you have a 13th gen CPU. any chance you are having the Pcore Ecore issue?

sorry. i thought that since there is still a lot of chatter on this topic, you still had no solution.

hello. i had this issue. i saw a tutorial on YT mentioning the opening sim from run icon to main menu performance. once i added the exclusions in my AV, i went from 2 + minutes to 30 seconds.

you talking about this?

as rob says, the AV classifies anything encrypted and not seen before as suspicious. then out of the abundance of caution quarantine the file. this allows the user to decide keep or kill. these files are encrypted to provide some defense of stealing intellectual property. these files are frequently updated with new encryption. so they get flagged again.

if comfortable, you need to add a few folders to the exceptions. not just the updater. this is for defender but the folders to exclude are the same. you could also "report false positive" to help others. the files are not virus.

i did a doc when i got a new pc. along with @HC_Official video, you should be able to get it sorted. https://pcwiseman.com/downloads_files/DCS_New_Computer.pdf

the speed of storage also has relevance on the amount of time it takes loading textures. i have personally noticed in some instances the loading takes time whereas some instances it is immediate.

"searching is easy when one knows the correct words to use in the search" -Anonymous

agreed. something in DCS is resetting it to the incorrect aspect value. perhaps manually changing the aspect in options.lua will keep DCS from trying to auto-create the file after deleting the entire config folder.

interesting setup. i do know some others say the disabling hotplug helps with stutter. have a look at this post still seeing this message. 2024-06-29 19:16:16.451 INFO DX11BACKEND (3504): DX11Renderer initialization (w:3840 h:2160 fullscrn:1 vsync:0 adapter:0 monitor:1 shaderErrors:1) seems to me DCS is complaining about the resolution. but your monitor from the samsung site definitely is 3,840 x 2,160. i am seeing in the latest log that the aspect ratio is not correct. 3840 x 2160 aspect is 1.7777777777778 your log says ["aspect"] = 1.3333333333333 manually change the options.lua after renaming it.