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Hello, I'm experiencing serious issues with DCS that are becoming increasingly frustrating and disruptive. I’m hoping someone from the community or the ED team can help me diagnose or solve this. Symptoms: - Sometimes, when I launch DCS, the loading bar freezes mid-way. DCS becomes unresponsive and never finishes loading. - Shortly after, my entire system starts progressively freezing: Task Manager, File Explorer, Discord, and other apps stop responding one by one. I have to end task DCS.exe to get back the computer. Occasionally, the system completely freezes, forcing me to do a hard reboot. Other times, the freeze happens when trying to join a multiplayer server. DCS gets stuck during the server loading phase and the same cascade of freezing occurs. When DCS hangs, the whole system's responsiveness degrades, not just the game. And when it happens, there is no apparent heavy load on the CPU, SSD or the RAM. The ram is not saturated. I have this problem only with DCS, no issues with other games or softwares. In actual gameplay, DCS runs smoothly once loaded. Here is my specs : - Ultra 7 265K - 64GB DDR5 - RTX 5080 - 2TB NVMe (WD Black PCIe Gen 4, 7000 MB/s read speed). DCS is installed here - Windows 11 fully updated - The DCS install is 1 month old Troubleshooting done so far: - Core Parking disabled - Core Isolation disabled - WIndows Gamemode disabled - DCS clean of any mods - DCS slow repair - Set a fixed pagefile, no pagefile swapping so far - Checked disk health (no issues), updated firmware, and verified full PCIe Gen4 x4 bandwidth - Ran CrystalDiskMark, nominal read/write speeds - Performed full DISM and sfc /scannow repairs - Disabled Windows Defender and Smartscreen entirely to rule out interference. - No signs of thermal issues: both NVMe drives run cool (40–50°C), CPU and GPU temperatures OK. I'm running out of ideas... Logs and DXdiag attached. Thanks in advance. DxDiag.txt dcs.log

Hello, After a long break, I wanted to practice dropping bombs with the Mig-29 again. As you can see in the screenshot, I'm in ground mode and 2 bombs are displayed. What I'm really surprised about is why the Piper is displayed at the top of the HUD (See the screenshot Mig-29(A&G_Pipper.png)? It should be at the bottom of the HUD, right? Or am I doing something wrong? What also surprises me is that if I attach the same type of bomb to each of the 4 pylons where bombs can be attached (e.g. 4x FAB-250), a pair should be selected and displayed slightly higher in the HUD. But this is not the case either (See the screenshot Mig-29(A&G).png). For comparison: I am using the latest DCS version. I recently performed a full repair.

After choosing a multiplayer server DCS crashes while on loading screen Net Sim Post Start every time. It just started doing this today right after I updated DCS and went to Multiplayer. Single Player has not been affected and works as normal Tried: full slow repair with Skatezilla and restart. Deleted FSX and Metashader folders Memory 32 GB Logs attached dcs.20210416-135524.crash dcs.20210416-135524.dmp

I haven't played for about 6 weeks so I am unsure when the issue originally appeared, but SA page is completely blank on lower DDI and appears as shown in the screenshot for the other two. The OSB buttons will cycle through waypoints and whatnot, but do not change the image on the DDI, and making it SOI and slewing the TDC does nothing either.

Hi, Since the last update, I'm getting a consistent crash when I try to join any MP server. All is fine in SP, and I was on an MP server last night with no issues, pre-update. I've attached the relevant bits of the logs below. Looks like it's trying to move or save the server trk file, whatever that means. Any ideas? Many thanks.

After the latest update of version 2.9.14.8222, the flaming cliff SU 33 Campaign, SEA Dragon, mission four, road block, there were no operatable player flight. The carrier and the player su33 were missing.

Has anyone else had a problem since the last update with regards to no carriers or boats with helo pads? No, I'm not providing a log file. Yes, I use a few unofficial mods. I'm not troubleshooting yet. I was just looking for a response from others who may be having the same issue. No carriers, no ships, no boats are showing up since the last update.

My game is stuck on loading screen for every map, just sits on this screen, loading bar is not moving for more than an hour. Any ideas some1? thx

I have Supercarrier and F/A-18 mods. I have recently downloaded user file TTI missions. Now no carriers spawn in mission/map - including original supercarrier missions that comes with supercarrier mod. Whenever mission starts and spawn in aircraft on carrier desk, aircraft spawns and instant crash in water as no carrier. Whenever mission starts in air (ie: case 1 recovery mission) aircraft spawns as normal, but no carrier in mission/map to land. I have done 'repair' and uninstalled and reinstalled supercarrier mod. I have done a new mission editor and placed carrier and aircraft on carrier (FA18 takeoff ramp) but still same issue.

and I have the supercarrier module

Hello Never experienced this before, but for some reasons now I can't ever join ANY server. Yes I did a full SLOW repair, same result. Help appreciated. Thanks dcs.log dcs.log-20250109-210900.zip

Bonjour tous le mondes quelqu'un à t il eu le même soucis ,les véhicules armés , blindés artilleries etc. n apparaissent plus dans dcs , seul les véhicules non armés apparaisse

Mirrors dont work.

For the past few days I am unable to use any tank and most armoured vehicles and AAA vehicles as well as infantry from any country or coalition in missions. I place the ground units and they do not spawn in the mission once I start it the only ground units that spawn are anything to do with a SAM and unarmed vehicles, any airplane, helicopter and ship work and I can use in missions. eeee.miz The vehicles can't be seen in the F10 Map or spectated by using F7 because they do not spawn in, I have repaired the game files twice and started new missions and still the vehicles do not spawn. This all started when I copy and pasted USA Infantry in a mission the mission 4 days ago. A screenshot of an armored vehicle in the mission editor. The vehicle is not in the game after I started the mission nor can it be spectated. How can I fix this issue?

I get the above error msg when in the editor trying to access objects from the helipad drop down list. have tried repairs even removed my shader folder and dxgui folder to get it to download fresh files. Crashes my game and have to restart

Hi all, Prob an issue allready mentioned before but I can't find it anywhere. My issue is that I can't place a flyable aircraft anymore in the editor. Helicopters and groundunits are okay and also static placements are fine too. But I can' t place any flyable aircraft anymore,...(so I can only make missionsfiles without flying it). When I want to place a flyable aircraft I get this (see attachment). Is someone able to tell me what the problem is? Regards, Rampage

Steps to reproduce: Play DCS in VR, Ask groundcrew to install NVG, Press H, CTD. Tested with Oculus VR Mode in both SP and MP. I also tested SteamVR and it crashes there too. dcs.log-20230111-180732.zip

Hello, i don't see anyone reporting this yet, but for the last 2 updates i think, i cannot use dumb bombs in Su-25T, Su-27, Su-33, Mig-29 and A-10A and maybe more. At the moment i am on the last update, but i can confirm that i can successfully use dumb bombs in version 2.9.1. In some cockpits it's more obvious that in others, the pipper is way up on the HUD and in A-10A i noticed that the "falling line" in inverted and i can drop bombs while flying belly up. Attached are some tracks of my test flights. At first i thought that maybe the bombing procedure was updated, but i couldn't find any mention in the changelogs. and after noticing the pipper in the wrong position and trying to fly acrobatically the A-10A, i think that this is a bug. Can someone check this please? Thank you in advance! ccip+ccrp test su-33.trk ccip+ccrp test A-10.trk ccip+ccrp test mig-29.trk

Putting this here, My uh-1h works fine, however if I turn on the night lighting on gauges the whole gauge turns yellow, on highest setting the dials becoming basically unreadable. Never had this problem before. Is there anyway to delete a module and reinstall it without having to reinstall all of dcs? I am thinking a cockpit resolution mod in user files here might of not been updated and did this but not sure. If this is causing it then I advise everyone not to use the handful of cockpit color or gauge mods in the DCS user files here. Screen_240508_134132.bmp Screen_240508_133358.bmp

Hi i have this bug in the su25 (not su25t) Someone know a solution? Bye

What was the solution? My A10-C II crashes on start-up. Other aircraft work fine. I have done a clean and repair but still crashes. A-10C II, Instant Action, Caucasus, Cold and dark. Crashes during Spawn Objects loading phase. Crash log attached. Any pointers gratefully received. dcs.log-20240127-190519.zip

I'm placing various ground units in mission editor but when I launch the mission, none of them are there. I tried two different maps, several unit types and countries but it's the same. They simply don't exist. They are not set on ''late activation' or anything like that. I tried repairing the game too. Same goes when I try to place static objects. The only thing that seems to work is the smoke effect. I have a bunch of mods installed but I'm not sure if any of them could cause such an issue. Has anyone else experienced something like that?

Been trying to get the Huey multi-crew working with the side gunners. Used to be a player could jump into a side gunner (without head tracking) and have a down the gunsight view that is mouse controlled. Now when going to a side gunner you cannot see the gunsight due to a gunner body in the way. This is the same in single player on the ground switching to a gunner position. I have tried using the "hide pilot body" key command and option with no effect. Am I forgeting something or are the Huey side gunner views broken?

Been trying to get the Huey multi-crew working with the side gunners. Used to be a player could jump into a side gunner (without head tracking) and have a down the gunsight view that is mouse controlled. Now when going to a side gunner you cannot see the gunsight due to a gunner body in the way. This is the same in single player on the ground switching to a gunner position. I have tried using the "hide pilot body" key command and option with no effect.

Hello, I've had zero issues with my DCS for the last couple years until this last while. Issue: While in the F/A-18C strafing ground targets using the M61A2 cannon, I obviously switch to A/G mode on the left, and then select the 'gun' button on the left mfd which we all know causes the A/G gun pipper to appear in the HUD. PROBLEM: Diving down on a ground target, pull the trigger, burst fires but NO AUDIO of the cannon sound emits (minor issue). I pull up and away after destroying the target and then BAM, the server either crashes (no matter what MP server I'm on) or DCS crashes. This ONLY happens when using the F/A-18C cannon in A/G mode using the a/g pipper and diving down on a ground target. ***I've already re-installed files, the Hornet, deleted mods, etc as well as verified game files. HERE'S THE TRACK Through_The_Inferno_CCS_v2.2.1-20231227-195411.trk