Dcs gets stuck on loading and stops responding

[lokon]

Greetings all.

I have had a version 1.5.?? (not sure which one was it now) with Flaming Cliffs 3, for a long time now and decided to update few days ago. Got around 22gb downloaded.

 

Now my DCS will not load anything - instant actions, campaigns nor multiplayer. I looked for the answers around the net, deleted users/user/saved games\DCS twice and that did not fix loading problem.

 

DCS stops responding at around half a bar while loading the game.

I am on windows 8, dx11, meet minimum requirements. Lot of dx11 errors in the log as well. Log is attached in .rar.

 

Help is much appreciated.

 

Two more things:

 

"save password" is ticked yet DCS keeps asking me for it each time when I start it.

and

i noticed after deleting dcs folder under saved games that file failed.ofsh is created - in case that has something to do with loading problems.

dcs.rar

[BIGNEWY]

Hi Lokon

 

welcome to the forum.

 

Ensure windows and all drivers are up to date on your machine.

 

Please try this, rename your DCS folder here, ( keep it as a backup for now )

 

C:\Users\gamemakina\Saved Games\DCS\

 

restart DCS

 

you will need to login and redo your settings.

 

1st load will take some time as new shaders have to be created.

 

 

 

Hope it helps

[lokon]

Hi Lokon

welcome to the forum.

1st load will take some time as new shaders have to be created.

Thanks man!

I did, prior to posting here, delete the entire DCS folder as well renaming MissionEditor (found that on the game site's faq) but situation was not resolved.

 

However I had no idea that shaders are being created.

 

So thx for the tip - later on when I got time will load up DCS and let it sit while it is creating shaders. Hope that will solve my situation.

Will update this post accordingly :)

[lokon]

Indeed, DCS was creating shaders - it took more than 5 minutes in my case due to my specs. Without knowing this i thought it was crashing(since task manager indicated Not Responding).

 

Everything works now, graphics are pretty cool in this version. Thank you very much for your help!

[BitMaster]

The beta luckily has a progress bar now, so users know it hasn't crashed but is indeed working hard.

[195th_Magic]

Last I heard, DCS 1.5 is no longer being supported. so you have to keep what you have or update to 2.5

[dchriest]

:thumbup::notworthy:It's downloading! Sierra Hotel boys!

[lokon]

Oh I did not play FC3 much since I got it. So last update and game time was around 1.5.xx something version that I did.

 

 

Though I was much into the Lock On - many years ago work colleague told me about it. Got FC3, but due to playing Lock On via keyboard + mouse combo (i know, i know) and being able to map few crucial commands to a mouse (like locking a target + switching ammo + fire) and consequently not being able to map them to a mouse in DCS I kinda let it go and it was just sitting on my machine :)

 

 

But I followed developments from time to time and came here as well. Since Lock On days this game has done really well. So I am about to get back into it - still with keyboard and a mouse :D But it can be done.

[Simicro]

Hi,

 

I upgraded from 1.5.6 to 2.5 stable and got the loading time problem.

 

I renamed C:\Users\Simicro\Saved Games\DCS as recommended.

 

And now DCS crashes.

dcs.log-20180616-210902.zip

[Simicro]

For guys who will read this thread later: I solved the crash problem by updating my drivers to the latest version.