Trespasser

Well, no crashes today. Played about 4hrs on Grayflag with several diff modules. In and out of Combined Arms too. Cautiously hopeful. i did change my ram xmp to default and played a bit. Seemed fine. Ran memtest, cinebench, scandisk, SFC All good. Then put the xmp back on and it was fine for hours. Maybe it was the hotfix? I don’t know what the “F10 map bug “actually was? 1 or maybe 2 of those crashes shown in the op screenie were while flying, but the rest were def whilst re-slotting on the map. More testing. it always seemed to crash when I hit release slot and then select Jtac on the server. Today there was no issue, but I never hit the release slot button today. That article is hilarz, but good to know. Will chk out RM. o7

It's possible it's server side. Crashing on Grayflag. Usually when I select JTAC/Observer. The Catch is that C-130 and UH-60 are required on that server so I doubt it's those mods as no one else is complaining. I took em out, but that means ironically I can't test cause I can't join without em lol. I just threw some more ram in, 32 to 64 now. Still crashed when I hit JTAC/Observer slot. Suspicious. Sidenote: Hey ED what r u doing to us over here lol? When I started to play DSC in 2020 I had 16gigs and it was fine. Then I bumped it up to 32 18months ago. Now I've gone to 64gb. Maybe optimize the game? Yer killin us! I load into a server and watch task manager. It says the damn thing is using 42gigs of memory? wtf. UPDATE: So confused. Everything seems to work. Done several repairs, and cleanups, took the mods (C-130 + UH-60) out, took out the skins, took out Reshade. Played single player mission in the viper. no issue fer. Put the c-130 and Uh-60 back in. Played on Grayflag - Syria for an hour in the Viper with no issue. Landed, released the slot and went to choose JTAC\Combined arms slot and crashed. dcs.log-20240930-223251.zip dcs.log

Thanks for having a look. I will try as u suggest. I ran a cleanup and a repair. It found several skins and my reshade settings. I forgot I have hercules and uh-60. I can remove those for a spell and test.

hey yo. Never posted a crash log as I haven't had much issues with DCS. Last time it was a mod so not sure what to post. But since the update today DCS crashes constantly. just curious is someone could look at these and give me a hint. Not sure what the issue is.dcs.log

Just checked. I think this must be it. So thank you for that! Been away so I really don't recall this being an option, BUT it was bound. Whaaat! I have a VKB Gunfighter, so there is a 4 way + Depress hat that I use for Display Management. At some point I def bound that Depress to toggling the visor. So it's very likely that I depressed that as I was "Mashing" the DMS aft to turn on the HMCS. Totally reasonable assumption. (Unfortunately I never hit F2 during this so I nvr noticed if I had flipped the visor up) As far as I can see is this seems to be mostly a quality of life feature for the pilot body animation? Other than "turning off" the hmcs, I haven't seen a difference in visual changes / acuity etc looking out while using or not using the visor (e.g. no polarization etc) Is there a use case for the Visor toggle in the DCS F16? I need to test more. If that is the case, not only is this resolved, I got an xtra depress. Yes pls. EDIT: Asked-and-Answered. Quick forum search shows it's primarily for the animation currently. Got it. I do love the below comment though. bwaahahaa! I was on Grayflag yesterday at Sun up. Couldn't see Sh!z with all the glare lol. (DCS is just too pretty with ultra settings and a good Reshade, I refuse to lower that so I can see properly. Prolly negatively impacting my K/D ratio though) Cheers to you both Trespasser

Confirmed doing it correctly and binds are working. I had to re-slot and it worked fine in my next viper. So haven't been able to re-peat the offending action if it was me. Tested turning it on/off on the ground and it was fine. ""Is there any chance you raised your visor? That would also disable your HMCS. "" Very curious. I was unaware one could do this, what the effects are or what the keybind is. Therefore I have to conclude it is a possibility as I may indeed have done it inadvertently. Will chk controls for the option.

Hey, Wondering if this is something I did or what's up. Lost my HMCS mid-flight On MP server, Cold Start goes fine, HMCS Brightness dial full right, Aligned the HMCS fine, Declutter on lvl 1, Blanking left as is on HMCS page DED default. HMCS is on during takeoff and climb out. Got busy with stuff and then noticed I have no HMCS a little while later. So I pressed DMS-Down-Long to turn it back on... Nothing. Never got it back. Checked whether DMS Down was bound correctly and working and it's fine. Is this incorrect? I know DMS Down long turns the HMCS off, but I've been away for a while. Doesn't DMS Down long turn it back on too? I've seen several posts of ppl having their HMCS "disappear, but invariably as I read the thread, they're unaware that DMS Down Long turns it off and they didn't know or notice they'd done that. That was the first thing I did.

We're like brothers in arms lol. I spent days doing all the stuff you mentioned in yer first post. I still need to test, But yeah I just noticed those files after a repair and was like, you go now. I even updated my bios and chipset drivers lol. My stutter was like a metronome. Every 2.73 seconds a split-second micro-stutter. You could set your clock by it. If only I'd seen this last week.

Damn yer eyes ED! bwahahaha! I just upgraded to fc2024 and the planes from FC3 STILL don't work. My DOODs, c'mon lol.

Been on hiatus from DCS for a long minute so I'm outa synch with recent stuff. Just gettin back in again. Not familiar with FC3 2024. Out of town at the mo so I can't chk the mod manager, but I must also be blind as I didn't see anything called FC32024 when I was perusing the summer sale a cpl days ago. Gonna go chk the e shop again. EDIT: Ohhhhh, it's in Bundles. D'oh!

Also getting this on the new launcher. It looks like an anomalous error?? Looks like its confused about 6 files, but there's nothing in the list. maybe I'm reading it wrong see attached pic. In addition, When I launch DCS, the main menu asks if I want to install FC3 and I say yes. I see it trying to install, but nothing gets installed.

I wish I could give you an answer, but It seems I'm in the same boat. Pretty annoying, but not an emergency. I've checked the FAQ and done all suggestions. (Exclusion for DCS in AV was already there) Did the cleanup from the new launcher Did the repair form the new launcher Del'd the manifest files etc etc + Repair Very strange. Li'l help?

LOL, exiting the hanger, waiting a min got it working. TY

Still happening. I'm seeing a lot of threads on this. Doesn't happen with other maps. Syria issue?? dcs.log

Hmm, never seen this before, but it's happening to me as of today. I zoom in on F-10 to get accurate grid coordinates for an object and the screen/game just freezes and I get notified by windows that the program is no longer responding. It's on a multiplayer server, but it's done it now 3 times in a row and very easy to duplicate. Anyone know if this error was ever tracked down and solved? dcs.log

just starting up.. That's fun. I use VA and said "weapons" and Petro responded with voice.. That's a new one. least it wasn't doing that yesterday EDIT: 10 mins later... Woohoo! Shturms firing ok and Petro seems very happy about it too. "YEEEAAAHH! Good effects on target." NICE. I will say I'm not sure if its working quite properly. The first time I tried to fire Petro responded with basically "Too Far, Get me closer" which was fine as I was about 12km out lol. However, I tried again at 9km just to hear him say the same thing and he actually fired the damn thing. I thought the limit was about 3-5km for the shturm?

Fingers crossed. Just getting back in the cockpit to test again after the beta update. Thanks for the many responses. We'll see what happens. I should have been a bit more clear. I'm attempting to shoot from the pilot seat, not the CPG. So I'm using Petro AI to order him to shoot using the big red button on my Gunfighter Pro labeled "Press me to kill people". It's bound to - "Designate Target" or "Open Fire" command to gunner - @unknown thanks for that heads up. was not aware of that rather significant bug till u posted it. Cheers all Trespasser.

Pretty sure I've tried all those, but thank you. All of the vids I've watched so far have had petro in NON-free fire mode, (beige reticle). So that's how I set mine up. Honestly I'm not fussed if I have to tell him to fire or he fires the missile himself. I'm much more interested in the missile coming off the rail in the first place lol. In free-fire(green reticle), he does nothing. In non-free fire(beige reticle) he does nothing. He selects a target, I line-up my reticle, I get tone, I get within range and order him to fire and nada. Just cant figure what I'm not doing correctly. But I at least thank you for confirming the target IDs are in red font because that's how my simple mission was set up.

Bought the Hind when it dropped, but just getting around to using it now. Unfortunately, the vids, tutorials, docs seem to all be somewhat out of date, but I've done my best setting up the controls for the HOTAS. Seems to be working. I'm fine with the rockets and guns, but Petrovich refuses to fire the missiles. All vids and docs I've seen are over a year old, can someone confirm the current font colour for the target list he comes up with lol? Is it supposed to be red or white? All vids/docs show it as being white. When he gives me the list the font is red. I'm just trying to determine if maybe the font has changed to red and that it's working as normal as such, or there's something I'm missing, it's supposed to be white and that's why he's not firing. I've set up my hotas properly, I've watch/read all the vids/doc. I slew my head to the target area, I press up-short he picks up targets after a few secs, he displays the list of targets to choose from (in red font). My reticle is beige. I fly toward to the target, I line up my reticle with his, I get tone All switches lights I think are in the green (based of the year old vids) I click right-short on the ai menu but the list disappears... annnnd then I fly over teh target with nothing happening 'cept me taking fire lol. Or I hit fire/designate and the menu flashes off and then on but no firing 2 pics, 1st just showing the red font(normal?) 2nd pic, can anyone see anything I've missed in the cockpit. I mean there's not that much to set up to get these of the rail..or so I thought Is there something obvious here I've missed? It's happened before. Thanks for any enlightenment. Trespasser

Was this fixed? .... it's been a hot minute lol

Well that’s good to know. I much prefer hearing I’m doing sumpin’ wrong as opposed to sumpin’ not workin’ lol. so you can see your Squawk in object properties of yer jet in LotATC if you set it up in the left panel of the F-16? I only see it ifI use the overlay. Weird. I’ll keep trying. cheers

Hmm, well I set it up using the left panel as depicted in Diesel’s pic, but I see no evidence that LotATC is picking it up in that program’s object properties for my jet. Are Viper pilots just stuck using the SRS overlay?

ohh, k gotcha. Thanks for confirming.. use the left panel, not the icp/ded. Thanks!

Heya Viper Masters, recently on some MP servers the GCI's and Tower controllers have been asking for us to enter squawk codes based on our mission type more often. it makes their life easier. I've been using the SRS overlay which works great for those GCIs using LotATC. I'd like to enter it using the ICP/DED. I thought there was a way to enter it through the ICP/DED in the Viper, but have yet to get it to work. I've looked at Chucks guide (PART 13: Datalink & IFF) and it seems like you can using LIST and RCL, but based on my exp, whatever I do isn't working. Can someone fill me in or is it something we can't do in the 16. Chucks does have that notation in red on p615,618,619 that IFF codes are already inputted and not changeable so if I'm stuck just using the SRS overlay, thats fine. It blows lol, but its fine. Seems like hornet drivers are able to. hopefully it's something silly I'm missing. Based on my limited knowledge I think its the Mode 3 A/C the GCIs are looking for and using the left panel backup wouldn't be the correct way under normal circumstances if I'm right. Not even sure if that works either. Thanks in advance for any insight.

Is there an update on this issue? It appears to be happening to a ton of ppl and it goes back years based on a quick Google search. I myself have started to experience it in the last six weeks both when starting up DCS and, if I get that far, sometimes it happens whilst joining a server. I see many ppl attaching their DCS logs as requested, but I've read through many of these threads and I've yet to see what exactly is causing it and what the fix is. Did I miss it somewhere?