Startup (before menu) crash: Microsoft Edge does it!

[Jack McCoy]

I highly suspect Microsoft Edge to be the culprit. I usually use Chrome but when I double-click a PDF (for DCS docs) it opens Microsoft Edge, so I leave it open there.

 

I started DCS World 2.5, latest OpenBeta patch, and it crashed before getting to the opening screen/menu.

I restarted DCS, same crash.

I remembered this ongoing suspicion I had about Edge and noticed it was open to a few insignificant Google Docs. I closed Edge.

I started DCS and it worked.

I closed DCS and reopened Edge. Guess what happened in my next two attempts to run DCS... You win! It crashed.

Closed Edge again and of course I could again start DCS.

 

Nothing else changed, no reboot, nothing. Just Edge. :mad:

 

Edge also seems to screw up Oculus which stays black and never reaches Oculus Home.

 

Shortcut target: "C:\Apps\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\DCS.exe" --force_disable_VR

 

Log attached. :book:

dcs.log-20180524-231623.zip

Edited May 24, 2018 by Jack McCoy

[BIGNEWY]

what GPU do you have?

 

Make sure all drivers are up to date, and check you have enough space for your pagefile, and the pagefile is set large enough

 

2018-05-24 23:16:23.289 ERROR DX11BACKEND: DX11Renderer::init() failed - D3D11CreateDevice() returned E_OUTOFMEMORY

2018-05-24 23:16:23.289 INFO EDCORE: try to write dump information

2018-05-24 23:16:23.290 INFO EDCORE: # -------------- 20180524-231623 --------------

2018-05-24 23:16:23.291 INFO EDCORE: C:\Apps\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\dx11backend.dll

2018-05-24 23:16:23.292 INFO EDCORE: # C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at 67D886AB 00:00000000

2018-05-24 23:16:23.295 INFO EDCORE: 00000000 00000000 0000:00000000

2018-05-24 23:16:23.304 INFO EDCORE: 67D886AB 0075DED0 0000:00000000 C:\Apps\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\dx11backend.dll ?resetSlots@DX11Renderer@RenderAPI@@QEAAXW4enShaderType@2@@Z()+43B

2018-05-24 23:16:23.305 INFO EDCORE: 67D82BA1 0075E170 0000:00000000 C:\Apps\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\dx11backend.dll ?shutdown@DX11Renderer@RenderAPI@@UEAAXXZ()+31

2018-05-24 23:16:23.305 INFO EDCORE: 67D822EB 0075E300 0000:00000000 C:\Apps\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\dx11backend.dll ?init@DX11Renderer@RenderAPI@@UEAA_NAEAVConfig@Lua@@_KHH_NHHW4FMT_ENUM@render@@W4MSAA_ENUM@6@PEBD@Z()+3CB

2018-05-24 23:16:23.306 INFO EDCORE: 98BDBFE9 0075E500 0000:00000000 C:\Apps\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\GraphicsVista.dll ?initialize@Renderer@Graphics@@QEAA_NPEAXHHH@Z()+309

2018-05-24 23:16:23.306 INFO EDCORE: 7A93A31F 0075EF90 0000:00000000 C:\Apps\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\Visualizer.dll ?SetProjBounds@smCamera_Implement@@UEAAXPEBM@Z()+302F

2018-05-24 23:16:23.306 INFO EDCORE: 7A947D94 0075EFD0 0000:00000000 C:\Apps\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\Visualizer.dll ?CreateSceneManager@smSceneManager@@SAXXZ()+24

2018-05-24 23:16:23.307 INFO EDCORE: FA99470B 0075F300 0000:00000000 C:\Apps\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\DCS.exe

2018-05-24 23:16:23.307 INFO EDCORE: FA992739 0075F380 0000:00000000 C:\Apps\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\DCS.exe

2018-05-24 23:16:23.307 INFO EDCORE: FA5FBF2B 0075FB60 0000:00000000 C:\Apps\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\DCS.exe

2018-05-24 23:16:23.308 INFO EDCORE: FAB20173 0075FBA0 0000:00000000 C:\Apps\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\DCS.exe

2018-05-24 23:16:23.309 INFO EDCORE: C2BF1FE4 0075FBD0 0000:00000000 C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNEL32.DLL BaseThreadInitThunk()+14

2018-05-24 23:16:23.309 INFO EDCORE: C546F061 0075FC20 0000:00000000 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll RtlUserThreadStart()+21

2018-05-24 23:16:23.414 INFO EDCORE: Minidump created.

2018-05-24 23:16:23.417 INFO DCS: try to write track file

2018-05-24 23:16:23.418 INFO DCS: 'C:\Users\Martin\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Logs\dcs.20180524-231623.crash' deleted successfully

2018-05-24 23:16:23.484 INFO DCS: 'C:\Users\Martin\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Logs\dcs.20180524-231623.dmp' deleted successfully

2018-05-24 23:16:23.484 INFO DCS: failed to open '' for reading

=== Log closed.

[Jack McCoy]

Fixed by updating nVidia drivers?

 

ASUS ROG GeForce GTX 1070 STRIX-GTX1070-O8G-GAMING 8GB

 

Updating to 397.93-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql.exe seems to have fixed the problem. There was no reboot required, so I didn't reboot to minimize changes and isolate the cause.

 

For reference, original drivers installed 2018-04-25: 397.31-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql.exe