Acft Crash after Frozen Ctrls and keyboard

[Ernst]

 

 

Hello, during 2 years of flying as single player with DCS Ihad crashes that I did not understood [All Acft types airborne and on theground with internet connected and disconnected] Now I found out that myflights/missions are working fine and stable until DCS tries to popup theWindows Taskbar [showing for a brief moment in DCS] at that moment all FltCtrls and keyboard are frozen/blocked also Esc and Pause does not work [when ithappens on the ground the brakes are also not working ] while DCS goes on untilAcft crash. When DCS is working and I use Alt+Enter you sometimes can see the ED start image page! I tried cleanup and repair and the updaterbut no result. Who knows the solution? System: Windows 7 pro,i7-4790 k cpu@4.00Ghz, Ram 32Mb, 64bits, 2 SSD, Geforce gtx 980 Ti,Asus maximusVII Hero.

Attachment= 1 screenshot with taskbar in dcs + 3logs fromlast event.

 

 

dcs.zip

dcs.log.zip

debrief.zip

[BIGNEWY]

Hi Ernst

 

and welcome to the forum.

 

This is a strange one, are you using full screen in the dcs options?

 

and is dcs running with administration rights in windows?

[Ernst]

Hi Ernst

 

and welcome to the forum.

 

This is a strange one, are you using full screen in the dcs options?

 

and is dcs running with administration rights in windows?

 

 

 

Hi Bignewy I Always use full screen and where can I see these administration rights?

[BIGNEWY]

Hi Bignewy I Always use full screen and where can I see these administration rights?

 

Find the bin folder in your DCS install and the DCS.exe

 

right click > properties and go to compatibility tab

 

click run as administrator

 

I have added a screenshot to assist. Sometime this helps

 

Also what antivirus are you using?

 

you can also try going into true full screen when in game by pressing Left Alt + Enter

 

when you get a pop up in windows DCS loses focus so your controls will not work, you have to make sure DCS remains the focused program

Edited August 27, 2017 by BIGNEWY

[Ernst]

Find the bin folder in your DCS install and the DCS.exe

 

right click > properties and go to compatibility tab

 

click run as administrator

 

I have added a screenshot to assist. Sometime this helps

 

Also what antivirus are you using?

 

you can also try going into true full screen when in game by pressing Left Alt + Enter

 

when you get a pop up in windows DCS loses focus so your controls will not work, you have to make sure DCS remains the focused program

I could not find DCS.exe in text in bin but the one that started dcs i right clicked as administrator.I use windows security Essentials.thank you so far I have to try it out. attachement of the bin folder was not working

[BIGNEWY]

it should be here

 

DCS World\bin

 

so where ever you have dcs installed you should find the bin folder inside.

 

But doing it on the one you use to launch DCS will be fine.

[Ernst]

it should be here

 

DCS World\bin

 

so where ever you have dcs installed you should find the bin folder inside.

 

But doing it on the one you use to launch DCS will be fine.

I am sorry it did not work I flew about 10 min then the Taskbar came into view at bottum of full dcsscreen the controls were frozen after 20 sec the bar retracted and the controls were normal again.

[Ernst]

I am sorry it did not work I flew about 10 min then the Taskbar came into view at bottum of full dcsscreen the controls were frozen after 20 sec the bar retracted and the controls were normal again.

When holding L Alt+Enter in game I see ED startpage with 'series' flashing or a full black screen. is that normal?

[BIGNEWY]

When holding L Alt+Enter in game I see ED startpage with 'series' flashing or a full black screen. is that normal?

 

No, that does not sound right.

 

Why is your windows task bar coming into view? what is making it pop up, do you know?

 

Maybe if you stop that from happening it will resolve the problem for you.

 

Can you keep the task bar hidden in windows and turn off notifications and so on?

[Ernst]

frozen controls

 

No, that does not sound right.

 

Why is your windows task bar coming into view? what is making it pop up, do you know?

 

Maybe if you stop that from happening it will resolve the problem for you.

 

Can you keep the task bar hidden in windows and turn off notifications and so on?

Hi bignewy last 2 weeks i tried all options in dcs ,all screen combinations and ratios but still the same I use a Dell U3014 monitor in 2560x1600.finally I unintalled DCS and after reinstalling still no succes also I installed the latest Geforce driver no 385.41 for GTX 980 TI but the taskbar is sometimes trying to come in view and sometimes comes in view and then the controls freezes including key board actions .I really do not know what I can do more.

[BIGNEWY]

Hi Ernst

 

Have you checked your taskbar settings?

 

you can auto hide the task bar and lock and unlock it, see if it makes a difference

 

obviously the problem is the task bar is taking focus away from DCS so you need to stop the task bar from doing this.

[Ernst]

Hi bignewy last 2 weeks i tried all options in dcs ,all screen combinations and ratios but still the same I use a Dell U3014 monitor in 2560x1600.finally I unintalled DCS and after reinstalling still no succes also I installed the latest Geforce driver no 385.41 for GTX 980 TI but the taskbar is sometimes trying to come in view and sometimes comes in view and then the controls freezes including key board actions .I really do not know what I can do more.

I updated the Dell monitor driver and turned off the micrografhs in the taskbar and still have the same problem as you can see in the attached picture .Is there somebody in your team who can give me more advise?

[BIGNEWY]

You can open a support ticket https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/support/

 

but I think the issue is not DCS it is the way the task bar is behaving in windows.

[Ernst]

Frozen controls and keyboard

 

You can open a support ticket https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/support/

 

but I think the issue is not DCS it is the way the task bar is behaving in windows.

Hi Bignewy,I had contact with ED [see attachment] This tasklist do i have to start DCS first or first the CMD ? and how can I give the CMD ? and do I have to keep DCS running till a Taskbar popup comes?

DCS11092017.pdf

[Ernst]

Hi Bignewy in the meantime I was able to send the tasklist to ED with regards!

[BIGNEWY]

Sorry for the late reply, support will do their best to help you

[Ernst]

Hi bignewy last 2 weeks i tried all options in dcs ,all screen combinations and ratios but still the same I use a Dell U3014 monitor in 2560x1600.finally I unintalled DCS and after reinstalling still no succes also I installed the latest Geforce driver no 385.41 for GTX 980 TI but the taskbar is sometimes trying to come in view and sometimes comes in view and then the controls freezes including key board actions .I really do not know what I can do more.

Hi Bignewy , also send to support!

with help of mybrother we found two programs in the configurationlist of my computer{amazonassistantservice and amazonesearching } those we uninstalled and Iuninstalled DCS and reinstalled DCS again.Now it seems to be working fine again,no windows taskbar is showiing up or tries to show up .After reinstalling DCSand starting the program I see a icon [ pictogram ] now in the lower corner ofDCS screen that stays there for the whole flight in all Acft types! If i make ascreenshot this symbol is not showing in the sreenshot! So I made a few “Paints” to show you in the attachments. Comes this icon from one of your latestupdates? With regards Ernst.

[BIGNEWY]

Hi Ernst

 

that symbol is not from DCS, do you have any other third party programs running?

[Ernst]

Hi Ernst

 

that symbol is not from DCS, do you have any other third party programs running?

 

 

 

No,not that I know I start with the DCS icon and in the ED 1.5.7 screen [see paint 1 ] the symbol is not showing but during the filling of the blue line it comes in view [see paint 2]

[BIGNEWY]

my guess is NVIDIA Shadow play instant replay icon

 

check your Gforce experience

[Ernst]

Frozen controls and keyboard

 

my guess is NVIDIA Shadow play instant replay icon

 

check your Gforce experience

 

Hi Bignewy,you were wright the symbol was caused by a Nvidia geforce program that was created duringthe last driver update for the Nvidia card in search for the other problem, thosefrozen controls and keyboard ! This problem was caused by two small programs ofAmazon.Nr 1 was on top of the tasklist “amazonassistantservice” Nr 2 was “amazonsearching”.One or both of these programs caused the windows taskbar to popup! We removedthem from the system and now I can fly without crashing from frozen controls!Thank you for your help and sharing your knowledg.

[BIGNEWY]

No problem Ernst,

 

thanks for sharing your solution and enjoy your flight!

:)