[CLOSED]A-10A locks up as soon as it starts

First let me say hi, I recently bought FC3 and I'm running with some weird issue that I haven't seen reported here.

As the title says, the game is crashing while flying the A-10A. I created a simple fast mission to practice with it and at some point in the middle of the mission it crashes and sends me to the main menu. This hasn't happened with the rest of the aircraft, which has me scratching my hea.

The mission is just me and a wingman vs ground forces set to min in the fast mission generator, the crash happens sometime after I engage the targets,at a seemingly random time. Will try to change the mission to see if I can narrow down what is causing the crash, will try to fly alone and then without enemies and see if it still crashes, also just to be sure I'll setup a second monitor to keep an eye on memory usage while flying, but I've got 8Gigs of RAM so that shouldn't be the problem. Also I'm running the game from Steam.

Has anyone experienced something similar to this?

UPDATE: Nevermind, I think I found the cause, I was using a smoke and fire mod that wasn't updated, restored all DCS files and now it seems to work just fine.

[REPORTED]A-10A locks up as soon as it starts

I've just been looking at the F-15C and SU-25T for the first time and they work fine but when I load the A-10A (just creating a fast mission), as soon as it starts, after I click fly, it just locks up and I can't even change the view and have to Ctrl-Alt-Del to Task Manager and kill DCS, which is stuck on about 25% CPU.

I've attached the most recent and previous me.log and dcs.log in case someone can decipher them and find the cause.

Of course, the first thing I suspected was mods (there was one that was causing F-15C not to work but I haven't narrowed it down to which one exactly) but I've disabled them all now and it hasn't made any difference.

I've just noticed that under Saved Games\DCS\Config\Input there appears to be a folder for everything but A-10A, unless that's just using Default.

me.txt

dcs.txt

me.log.txt

dcs.log.txt

not sure if this can cause the described behaviour, but ...

00061.024 UNKNOWN main: [string "./Config/MonitorSetup//KA-50_A-10C.lua"]:6: unexpected symbol near '}'

you should check your monitor config file.

not sure if this can cause the described behaviour, but ...

 

00061.024 UNKNOWN main: [string "./Config/MonitorSetup//KA-50_A-10C.lua"]:6: unexpected symbol near '}'

 

you should check your monitor config file.

Thanks, that one was in fact quite messed up, no doubt as a result of me starting but not finishing editing it manually.

I didn't really think it would fix my problem (and it didn't), as I'm not using that config, just the 1Camera one but it's good to fix things, so thanks for bringing it to my attention. :)

I compared the dcs.log from running F-15C and A-10A (.old in attached) and strangely there are DXRenderer errors with F-15C, which works but not with the A-10A, which doesn't!

In the me.log, the A-10A has something about removing tempmission.miz and using another file, which seems wrong, as tempmission.miz (created in my temp folder) appears to be what's created when making a Fast Mission and MG.miz is in my Saved Games\DCS\Missions folder, so I can't think why it would be loading that.

Logs.zip

I have the same problem, the screen freezes on every mission when flying the a-10a. On the steam forums someone mentioned it has something to do with the RWR when it gets a signal.

I have the same problem, the screen freezes on every mission when flying the a-10a. On the steam forums someone mentioned it has something to do with the RWR when it gets a signal.

Yes, my game crashes when RWR finds a threat, too. It didn't happen until I got 1.2.9 update.

Out of curiosity, have you tried waiting? I have not used the A-10A in 1.2.9, but in previous patches, then A-10A on start up of a mission would appear to freeze. The issue was it just took a very long time to fully load for some reason. A-10A only.

I waited a bit but maybe it needs even longer. If there's an issue with just the A-10A though, I guess it should be fixable.

I don't think it's related to RWR finding threats for me as I'm starting on the ground, so there shouldn't be any threats that close but I can't be sure.

Out of curiosity, have you tried waiting? I have not used the A-10A in 1.2.9, but in previous patches, then A-10A on start up of a mission would appear to freeze. The issue was it just took a very long time to fully load for some reason. A-10A only.

It also happens after 5 minutes in the air, if it doesn't crash right at the beginning.

same issue here, would it help to send someone a dxdiag or is there a crash report we can forward?

Crash/freeze with a-10a DCS

Hi there i,m oscar and new to the forum . Im have a crash problem.

I have A-10a & Combined arms for dcs world .

But when i play missions and campaigns the program freezes about around 30 seconds to a couple of minutes , i still have sound but the screen just freezes and i have to kill DCS.

Strange thing is i dont have this ploblem with playing Combined arms or when i make training missions in the mission editor with the a-10a .

Sometimes it freezes when the rwr detects a threat and sometimes its random. Anyone know what is triggering this ?

Definite A10A crash bug related to RWR

As soon as I installed the 1.29 update I began to get game crashes flying the A10A. The game would freeze although the engine sound would continue and every time I could not get back to the desktop and had to restart the PC. In some missions it froze as soon as the mission started and in others it froze a few minutes in.

I tried many things, repairing, uninstalling and reinstalling, turning off all modes, updating graphic drivers etc.

I saw mention of a possible RWR bug so decided to test it. Bingo!

I set up a test mission. One A10A flying towards a radar utilising Sam site, The SAM was set for late activation and I made it so I could activate it via a radio menu item. I started the mission and flew for a few minutes with no SAM and no RWR signal. No problem. I activated the SAM and the moment the RWR got a signal and beeped the game froze.

Definite bug of some sort. Until it’s fixed the game is mostly unplayable.

I think its triggered by something else as well though. Because when i tested it i got a freeze without a RWR calling out threats . But i get it every single time when the RWR lights up . A-10a i unplayable unless for training missions in the editor without any radar threats. Combined arms plays without any problems though. I hope it gets fixed asap.

Some people report the whole pc freezes. But i can control alt delete and kill DCS . When i come back to the menu screen it says it cannot load the after action report as well .

Yeah it's the RWR in the A10a , it doesn't matter the source of the radar signal - the game freezes on the very first beep from the RWR. I tried it with the SU25T and there is no problem and I also tried it with an air threat to an A10 and that froze on the first beep.

I always fly the A10A and it's impossible to fly any mission with any radar threats, which is pretty much any of them, so I am stuck until the bug is fixed.

There is a definite RWR crash bug with the A10A. I created a simple mission to test it, one A10A and a radar emitting SAM site that I could trigger inflight. The A10A flew around with no problem, I triggered the SAM site and the instant the RWR beeped the game froze, it froze so hard that I had to reboot the PC.

i can confirm this bug ...

if a rwr threat is beeping first time every A10A mission freezes ...

A10A only

This happens to me also.

same here

Same here....... :(

Bug is known to ED and is being worked on (for Testers - '0027319: A-10A RWR indication results in game lock')

Cannot start "The Valley" A-10A campaign due to RWR bug

Campaign mission #1 freezes the moment I enter the cockpit. After I found this thread, I opened "A-10A Camp 1A.miz" in the mission editor and saved it as "test_A-10A Camp 1A.miz". I opened test_A-10A Camp 1A.miz in the editor, deleted the unit F-16C bl.52d, saved and the edited mission starts normally. But, a few minutes into the flight, when SA-11 lights up on the RWR, the game freezes.

Eagerly awaiting A-10A RWR bug fix. :thumbup: