Solution to DCS startup crash !!!!

Hi all.

After days of frustration i have managed to fix my dcs.

I had the issue where DCS would crash at startup but i could play multiplayer in windowed mode.

************Solution*************

Set your desktop resolution to 1024*768

Boot up DCS.

You should then get an error msg say missing "pthreadgc2.dll"

Go and get the missing file from

http://files.filefront.com/pthreadGC2dll/;7674775;/fileinfo.html

Copy the file in to your system32 folder and your wow64 folder.

Boot up dcs

You should now be able to get into the options screen.

Adjust your resolution to suit.

exit dcs

Reset your desktop and you should be good to play single and multiplayer in full screen..

I hope this helps some of you out

XP or vista ?

what are your system specs ?

sorry forgot to add them

Vista ultimate 64

AMD x2 4800

6gb pc6400

ATI 3870hd

2 * 500mb SATAII

32" xerox tft 4ms

XP here, sp3.

Resized the screen, no report of missing file.

put the file in windows-system32 folder (no wow64 in xp)

No change. Still crash.

Lucky guys who get it to work !! :doh:

I fixed mine by reinstalling XP. It was crashing during some call to Opengl32.dll.

Fixed mine with video-drivers, fixing OpenGL.

Good to hear you got it working too.

Enjoy and some day we might meet in the virtual skies.:pilotfly:

I have the Opengl32 problem as well and running on WinXP with a ATI Radeon X1950 Pro card and have tried everything but reloading windows....can't find the disks. So, any other way to fix.