Crash when opening F10 map

[otavio]

Notes:

 

Windows is installed on drive (C:)

DCS is installed on another hard drive (Z:)

Happens both in Multiplayer and Single Player

I have deleted all metashaders and fxo related folders after i updated

 

Problem:

 

Whenever i open the F10 map DCS freezes and my C: drive gets satured with writes (100%)

 

Has anyone had the same issue?

[BIGNEWY]

Hi otavio

 

please attach your dcs.log after the crash we may find some clues

 

what is your page file set as?

 

automatic or manual?

[otavio]

Hello BIGNEWY

 

I don't think i have a dcs.log file to attach, because the game doesn't end up "crashing", the game simply freezes with all the writes on my C: drive and i have to end it through the task manager. Regarding the page file it is set to automatic.

[BIGNEWY]

you will still have a dcs.log, check out my guide

 

my guess is we will see a GUI error

 

If you are using any unofficial mods remove them and run a cleanup and repair

 

I have a guide for that below also

[MadDog-IC]

Notes:

 

Windows is installed on drive (C:)

DCS is installed on another hard drive (Z:)

Happens both in Multiplayer and Single Player

I have deleted all metashaders and fxo related folders after i updated

 

Problem:

 

Whenever i open the F10 map DCS freezes and my C: drive gets saturated with writes (100%)

 

Has anyone had the same issue?

 

Does that freeze happen the instant you go to F10 map or just sometime later ???

 

The reason I ask, is I have similar issues when running the same mission more than once in succession (Usually testing missions with AI doing the flying why I watch different events in the F-10 map, swapping between aircraft and vehicle views to check aircraft attacks and ground units positions on the ground).

 

The two result are:

 

1. Usually a crash of DCS (Stopped working and back to Desktop) on the second or third run of the same mission, (Running from the Mission Editor), varies between DCS updates, sometimes it does it, some times not.
   
2. Usually a crash of DCS when mission is actually completed successfully and your exiting back to the mission editor (Lockup - requiring Task manager shutdown) when just about any mission is run, even just once, this always happens if you have used the F10 Map at any stage, not so much if you haven't used the F10 map view.
   

The lockup on mission exit has been a long standing issue with me over various patch version of DCS 2.5, its very annoying for developing on, but I haven't been able to resolve it, no matter how many changes I have made to drivers, pagefiles, cleanups, repairs, deleting saved games folder, metashaders and all of the other tricks about.

 

Have also seen long writes to drives, but haven't noted under what circumstances.

 

One thing I have noticed on my system that is odd, when playing with the pagefile, is it is currently set to "System managed - 2.5gb" but when I have DCS running Afterburner reports approx 10gb of pagefile being used, but the pagefile on the hdd doesn't every change in size from 2.5gb (Everything I ever understood about pagefile use was that windows would up the file size if required when the system is managing it, clearly it isn't)

 

Regards, Ian.

[Johnny_Rico]

Does that freeze happen the instant you go to F10 map or just sometime later ???

 

The reason I ask, is I have similar issues when running the same mission more than once in succession (Usually testing missions with AI doing the flying why I watch different events in the F-10 map, swapping between aircraft and vehicle views to check aircraft attacks and ground units positions on the ground).

 

The two result are:

 

1. Usually a crash of DCS (Stopped working and back to Desktop) on the second or third run of the same mission, (Running from the Mission Editor), varies between DCS updates, sometimes it does it, some times not.
   
2. Usually a crash of DCS when mission is actually completed successfully and your exiting back to the mission editor (Lockup - requiring Task manager shutdown) when just about any mission is run, even just once, this always happens if you have used the F10 Map at any stage, not so much if you haven't used the F10 map view.
   

The lockup on mission exit has been a long standing issue with me over various patch version of DCS 2.5, its very annoying for developing on, but I haven't been able to resolve it, no matter how many changes I have made to drivers, pagefiles, cleanups, repairs, deleting saved games folder, metashaders and all of the other tricks about.

 

Have also seen long writes to drives, but haven't noted under what circumstances.

 

One thing I have noticed on my system that is odd, when playing with the pagefile, is it is currently set to "System managed - 2.5gb" but when I have DCS running Afterburner reports approx 10gb of pagefile being used, but the pagefile on the hdd doesn't every change in size from 2.5gb (Everything I ever understood about pagefile use was that windows would up the file size if required when the system is managing it, clearly it isn't)

 

Regards, Ian.

 

I have never had this before this latest Beta , now Iam lucky IF I can load a mission twice from editing it without DCS crapping itself, very hard to create content when the program keeps crashing