[REPORTED] Game Locks Up / Freezes

[purpi]

The same thing happens to me, I have a center fuel tank and only after refueling a few minutes it freezes. Obviously it has to do with fuel tank this failure.

Thank you very much everyone for reporting this problem.

Edited June 2, 2018 by purpi

[NineLine]

Awesome news! Thanks for the support! This wasnt easy for you to get your hands on the real issue :)

 

Random crashes, lock ups and freezes can be very hard to pinpoint yes.

[icat]

I have the same issue. I did some tests and I reached to the following conclusion: when you put in the wings external fuel tanks DCS freezed but this doesn´t occur when you load the center fuel tank

[Mud]

Same thing happened to me just now on my first AAR in the Hornet.

 

I had a disconnect from the basket as the tanker went into a turn, no problem there. Reconnected and when my tanks were filled, game freeze.

 

Last bits of my log:

 

 

2018-06-02 19:31:21.748 INFO    EDCORE: (wcTanker::Channel)enterToState_:2
2018-06-02 19:31:28.937 INFO    TACVIEW.DLL: During the last 600.0s an average of 98 units objects and 0 ballistic objects have been active per frame
2018-06-02 19:31:28.937 INFO    TACVIEW.DLL: The average frame rate of 45.4fps would have been 47.2fps if the flight data recorder was disabled
2018-06-02 19:31:28.937 INFO    TACVIEW.DLL: DCS World simulation is taking 96.2% of CPU
2018-06-02 19:31:28.937 INFO    TACVIEW.DLL:  DCS GetWorldObjects is taking  3.5% of CPU
2018-06-02 19:31:28.937 INFO    TACVIEW.DLL:     Tacview recorder is taking  0.3% of CPU
2018-06-02 19:35:08.437 INFO    DCS: wcTanker::onEvent:6
2018-06-02 19:35:08.437 INFO    EDCORE: (wcTanker::Channel)enterToState_:4
2018-06-02 19:35:11.435 INFO    DCS: wcTanker::onEvent:9
2018-06-02 19:35:11.435 INFO    EDCORE: (wcTanker::Channel)enterToState_:5
2018-06-02 19:36:01.615 INFO    DCS: wcTanker::onEvent:8
2018-06-02 19:36:01.615 INFO    EDCORE: (wcTanker::Channel)enterToState_:3
2018-06-02 19:37:25.410 INFO    DCS: wcTanker::onEvent:6
2018-06-02 19:37:25.410 INFO    EDCORE: (wcTanker::Channel)enterToState_:4
2018-06-02 19:37:26.520 INFO    DCS: wcTanker::onEvent:8
2018-06-02 19:37:26.520 INFO    EDCORE: (wcTanker::Channel)enterToState_:3
2018-06-02 19:38:04.300 INFO    DCS: wcTanker::onEvent:6
2018-06-02 19:38:04.300 INFO    EDCORE: (wcTanker::Channel)enterToState_:4
2018-06-02 19:38:07.321 INFO    DCS: wcTanker::onEvent:9
2018-06-02 19:38:07.321 INFO    EDCORE: (wcTanker::Channel)enterToState_:5

 

[statrekmike]

Good to hear that the ED team will be working on this. Hopefully it gets fixed soon. Heck, I would even go as far as to say that this is hotfix material due to its severity.

[jonsky7]

Just had this problem again, did have 3 fuel tanks on the Hornet, attached log (not crash log) and dxdiag, there is a lot of errors towards the end of the log referencing textures I believe, is that normal?

Logs.zip

DxDiag.txt

[HocusPocus]

It just happened to me on my first attempt on a MP server, was refueling and right when I was expecting the basket to disconnect it froze. Had to reboot to recover...

So too early to draw conclusions as piston85 reports this issue on sp... for me so far only mp...

[purpi]

I have the same issue. I did some tests and I reached to the following conclusion: when you put in the wings external fuel tanks DCS freezed but this doesn´t occur when you load the center fuel tank

It happens to me with the center fuel tank, the bug is related to the fuel tanks in general.:smilewink:

Edited June 2, 2018 by purpi

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

One of our Testers was able to reproduce and submit a track to the team, thanks for everyone's help on this matter.

Excellent! Thanks for your patience. We were not able to provide crash logs since it was technically not a "crash".

 

 

It happens to me with the center fuel tank, the bug is related to the fuel tanks in general.

It is, but when you have 3 tanks loaded, the freeze will happen a lot sooner into the mission.

Tonight I flew with 2 friends who both had the Hornet, and they both had to Task Manager their way out.

I didn't use a fuel tank at all tonight, and had zero issues.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

sometimes it's when the belly tank is filled up

This issue is probably the same than the one reported here:

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=210633

 

When I first encountered the freeze, it was indeed the very moment the belly tank got filled up. For now, fly around without external tanks until the fix has been implemented.

[icat]

It happens to me with the center fuel tank, the bug is related to the fuel tanks in general.:smilewink:

In my case it´s only with the wings external fuel tanks. I fly in buddyspike server with center fuel tank and I don´t have any issue with this configuration

Edited June 2, 2018 by icat

[statrekmike]

In my case it´s only with the wings external fuel tanks. I fly in buddyspike server with center fuel tank and I don´t have any issue with this configuration

 

 

How high do you typically fly? If you stick to lower altitudes, it takes longer for the freeze to happen but if you fly at around 25,000 feet or higher, the freeze happens much quicker.

[Ramstein]

mine freezes, and always had at least 2 eternal fuel tanks, and before then 3 ext fuel, and the freezes just keep coming at least 1 per hour... sometimes even task manager doe snot help, have to do a total reboot to get out...

 

 

never had this problem until this last patch...

[Jeepyb]

I have the same issue but didn't really notice any link with the fuel tanks. I had it freeze on me with aim7 in boresight mode (like some people reported on here already), when pressing on some buttons on the EW page and upon cycling waypoints.

[grifo]

Same issue for me sadly.. Almost random freezes. But they occurred since i'm flying a mission with a kc-130 tanker in orbit and taking off from a carrier in gulf map.The release day i flyied for almost 3 hours without any problem in an empty gulf map. I will try to exclude something for testing.

 

Edit: glad to read issue was reproduced and tracked by developers.. You guys are great!

Edited June 3, 2018 by grifo

[Mud]

For what it's worth, and if it hasn't been reported yet:

 

- Took off with a centerline.

- Jettisoned the centerline.

- Hit the tanker.

- Freeze when tanks are full.

[icat]

How high do you typically fly? If you stick to lower altitudes, it takes longer for the freeze to happen but if you fly at around 25,000 feet or higher, the freeze happens much quicker.

Normally my attitude it's between 25K and 35K

[Jeepyb]

Just did another test flight. Deleting the metashaders seemed to allow me to fly longer. Took off with around 15 000lbs of fuel ( 2 wing tanks), got down to around 5000lbs. Did a full AAR with a KC130T and got the crash right after I got the ''transfer complete" call from the tanker and as I was retracting my probe.