ME really bugged since last update?

[Baco]

Is it my install or did the ME just went bananas?

The pull down menus for units go crazy displaying weird options, once set you cant reselect certain units, cant select the Bullseye options.. its haywirde...

[feefifofum]

Not seeing anything like that on my end, I just finished building a pretty complex op last Saturday.

[Oh-Zee]

I am, I thought it was a hard drive going, but everything checks out. I place an item and then can't select it again and when I go to save the mission, the save icon stays lit and it says mission already exists. Menus have different options every time I open ME. I thought I was going crazy, I'm glad someone else is seeing it !

[Grimes]

Attach DCS.log whenever it happens so we can see the editor errors it is spitting out.

[Oh-Zee]

Going to see if it happens on a fresh mission right now, will send log.

The problem seem to be with particular static objects and the save function for me anyways.

[wolf5]

Pretty same here.

I have a mission with USA blue side and USAF agressors red side.

I can't select red static objets, units list didn't show and statics object is totally bugged.

Lists don't show the right objects with USAF agressors.

dcs.txt

[Oh-Zee]

That's pretty much what I got too. the static items list was the same for each category, then when selecting an item on the list, I was able to click on the item that wasn't movable or in the list. The other problem was the save button staying highlighted. When trying to exit out it would ask me if wanted to save before leaving. I would answer yes and the file already existed, then answer no and it would let me exit. When I would go back to list of saved missions it would be there. So it was saving the mission, but the save icon would stay highlighted and it would not recognize it saved it, when it actually did save it. The first attachment is a mission done before the update and second one is a fresh test this morning. Same problem both missions.

dcs 113018 1030.txt

dcs 113018 1040.txt

[Pikey]

LUACOMMON: Error: GUI Error: [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_static.lua"]:1458: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)

 

logs full or errors (and mods)

 

Give it a clean, try again without the mods.

 

Works for me.

[Oh-Zee]

Cleaned and repaired as suggested, even though I knew it wouldn't help. It did not help. Now having problems with editing ship types as well as the other symptoms. I've done what I could as far as a clean and repair. I went as far as deleting files and reinstalling them if I thought they might have unwanted files. Next step is a complete wipe and reinstall of everything if you guys don't see a problem. I was not obviously the only one to have these problems. Game ran fine for many months with what few mods and skins I had installed. It was not until last update that these problems came about.

[MadDog-IC]

Pretty same here.

I have a mission with USA blue side and USAF aggressors red side.

I can't select red static objects, units list didn't show and statics object is totally bugged.

Lists don't show the right objects with USAF aggressors.

 

There was a MOD that modified the statics.lua, I think it was so the AV-8na or viggen could take off from the ground that become incompatible with latest DCS revisions and caused the same error that is showing in your log.

 

Either way, if you haven't any MODS, I would backup / rename your "C:\Users\Wolf\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta" folder and let DCS recreate it, See if it corrects your immediate issue, if so then rebuilt your controls and logbook, etc from the backup a bit at a time.

 

Also do a DCS_update.exe cleanup command to check for installed and or remove MODS.

 

P.S. @OH-ZEE - post a current log with the mods removed.

 

Regards, Ian.

Edited December 4, 2018 by MadDog-IC

[Oh-Zee]

120318 is the latest file. I believe the other one is right after I did the clean and repair. Thanks

dcs 120318 1457.txt

dcs 120118 1658.txt

[Oh-Zee]

Playing in mission editor tonight when it just crashed. Was trying to work around the other problems to make mission flyable, but it would not cooperate and crashed. Here is the crash file.:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

dcs.log-20181204-055815.zip

[MadDog-IC]

Playing in mission editor tonight when it just crashed. Was trying to work around the other problems to make mission flyable, but it would not cooperate and crashed. Here is the crash file.:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

 

Firstly: From you DCS.log in the spoiler below, the graphics card shown doesn't meet minimum specifications to run DCS, and has too little onboard VRAM most likely.

 

 

---------------

Display Devices

---------------

Card name: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series

Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Chip type: AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x6819)

DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)

Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_6819&SUBSYS_32641682&REV_00

Display Memory: 745 MB

Dedicated Memory: 1001 MB

Shared Memory: 3840 MB

 

 

DCS Minimum system requirements (LOW graphics settings): OS 64-bit Windows 7/8/10; DirectX11; CPU: Intel Core i3 at 2.8 GHz or AMD FX; RAM: 8 GB (16 GB for heavy missions); Free hard disk space: 60 GB; Discrete video card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 / AMD R9 280X or better.

 

Secondly: These errors in the spoilter below indicate a user mod (upuaut's - Addon Tents, Watchtower, UH-1-Cargo) is still loaded as entry.lua config files are still trying to load some tent textures that don't exist in the mod, whilst I have installed those same mods and get the same error messages, mod appears to function ok, but I would uninstall all those mods from the tech folder temporarly whilst trying to diagnose all the other issues.

 

 

2018-12-04 04:56:21.599 ERROR EDCORE: Can't mount c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/bunker/textures/tents.zip. Drivers errors:

2018-12-04 04:56:21.599 ERROR EDCORE: FSDriver: there is no directory c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/bunker/textures/tents.zip

2018-12-04 04:56:21.599 ERROR EDCORE: ZipDriver: Can't open zip archive c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/bunker/textures/tents.zip.

2018-12-04 04:56:21.602 ERROR EDCORE: Can't mount c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/flak_88/textures/tents.zip. Drivers errors:

2018-12-04 04:56:21.602 ERROR EDCORE: FSDriver: there is no directory c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/flak_88/textures/tents.zip

2018-12-04 04:56:21.602 ERROR EDCORE: ZipDriver: Can't open zip archive c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/flak_88/textures/tents.zip.

2018-12-04 04:56:21.603 ERROR EDCORE: Can't mount c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/helicopterlz/textures/tents.zip. Drivers errors:

2018-12-04 04:56:21.603 ERROR EDCORE: FSDriver: there is no directory c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/helicopterlz/textures/tents.zip

2018-12-04 04:56:21.603 ERROR EDCORE: ZipDriver: Can't open zip archive c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/helicopterlz/textures/tents.zip.

2018-12-04 04:56:21.607 ERROR EDCORE: Can't mount c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/m16_halftrack/textures/tents.zip. Drivers errors:

2018-12-04 04:56:21.607 ERROR EDCORE: FSDriver: there is no directory c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/m16_halftrack/textures/tents.zip

2018-12-04 04:56:21.607 ERROR EDCORE: ZipDriver: Can't open zip archive c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/m16_halftrack/textures/tents.zip.

2018-12-04 04:56:21.608 ERROR EDCORE: Can't mount c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/m45_quadmount/textures/tents.zip. Drivers errors:

2018-12-04 04:56:21.608 ERROR EDCORE: FSDriver: there is no directory c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/m45_quadmount/textures/tents.zip

2018-12-04 04:56:21.608 ERROR EDCORE: ZipDriver: Can't open zip archive c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/m45_quadmount/textures/tents.zip.

2018-12-04 04:56:21.610 ERROR EDCORE: Can't mount c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/mg-nest/textures/tents.zip. Drivers errors:

2018-12-04 04:56:21.610 ERROR EDCORE: FSDriver: there is no directory c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/mg-nest/textures/tents.zip

2018-12-04 04:56:21.610 ERROR EDCORE: ZipDriver: Can't open zip archive c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/mg-nest/textures/tents.zip.

2018-12-04 04:56:21.611 ERROR EDCORE: Can't mount c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/coastbunker/textures/tents.zip. Drivers errors:

2018-12-04 04:56:21.611 ERROR EDCORE: FSDriver: there is no directory c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/coastbunker/textures/tents.zip

2018-12-04 04:56:21.611 ERROR EDCORE: ZipDriver: Can't open zip archive c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/mods/tech/coastbunker/textures/tents.zip.

 

 

 

Thirdly: This extract points to more issues, your normal DCS openbeta saved user data from "c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta/" but your trying to load textures from "c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/", I assume that is another install of say DCS Stable, but the folder or files don't exist any way.

 

 

2018-12-04 04:56:44.800 ERROR EDCORE: Can't mount c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/ajs37. Drivers errors:

2018-12-04 04:56:44.800 ERROR EDCORE: FSDriver: there is no directory c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/ajs37

2018-12-04 04:56:44.800 ERROR EDCORE: ZipDriver: Can't open zip archive c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/ajs37.zip.

2018-12-04 04:56:44.800 ERROR EDCORE: Can't mount c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/av-8b. Drivers errors:

2018-12-04 04:56:44.800 ERROR EDCORE: FSDriver: there is no directory c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/av-8b

2018-12-04 04:56:44.800 ERROR EDCORE: ZipDriver: Can't open zip archive c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/av-8b.zip.

2018-12-04 04:56:44.800 ERROR EDCORE: Can't mount c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/f-5. Drivers errors:

2018-12-04 04:56:44.800 ERROR EDCORE: FSDriver: there is no directory c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/f-5

2018-12-04 04:56:44.800 ERROR EDCORE: ZipDriver: Can't open zip archive c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/f-5.zip.

2018-12-04 04:56:44.800 ERROR EDCORE: Can't mount c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/f-86f. Drivers errors:

2018-12-04 04:56:44.800 ERROR EDCORE: FSDriver: there is no directory c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/f-86f

2018-12-04 04:56:44.800 ERROR EDCORE: ZipDriver: Can't open zip archive c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/f-86f.zip.

2018-12-04 04:56:44.800 ERROR EDCORE: Can't mount c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/f-86f/usn_usmc. Drivers errors:

2018-12-04 04:56:44.800 ERROR EDCORE: FSDriver: there is no directory c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/f-86f/usn_usmc

2018-12-04 04:56:44.800 ERROR EDCORE: ZipDriver: Can't open zip archive c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/f-86f/usn_usmc.zip.

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: Can't mount c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/ka-50. Drivers errors:

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: FSDriver: there is no directory c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/ka-50

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: ZipDriver: Can't open zip archive c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/ka-50.zip.

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: Can't mount c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/m-2000c. Drivers errors:

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: FSDriver: there is no directory c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/m-2000c

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: ZipDriver: Can't open zip archive c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/m-2000c.zip.

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: Can't mount c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/p-51d. Drivers errors:

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: FSDriver: there is no directory c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/p-51d

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: ZipDriver: Can't open zip archive c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/p-51d.zip.

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: Can't mount c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/sa342. Drivers errors:

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: FSDriver: there is no directory c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/sa342

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: ZipDriver: Can't open zip archive c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/sa342.zip.

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: Can't mount c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/su-27. Drivers errors:

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: FSDriver: there is no directory c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/su-27

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: ZipDriver: Can't open zip archive c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/su-27.zip.

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: Can't mount c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/su-33. Drivers errors:

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: FSDriver: there is no directory c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/su-33

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: ZipDriver: Can't open zip archive c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/su-33.zip.

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: Can't mount c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/uh-1/usmc_hmm. Drivers errors:

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: FSDriver: there is no directory c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/uh-1/usmc_hmm

2018-12-04 04:56:44.801 ERROR EDCORE: ZipDriver: Can't open zip archive c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs/textures/uh-1/usmc_hmm.zip.

 

 

Forthly: Left the worst for last - exert from dcs.log file in spoiler below, this is your main issue now and the hardest to diagnose.

 

It is apparent now that a "DCS_updater.exe cleanup" will never fix your issues as any modified and incompatible files that reside in your "SAVED GAMES" folder are most likely the culprit and are never touched by that command, it is up to the user to figure out and remove or replace said problem files when and if they become incompatible with DCS new code.

 

I would backup and rename your complete "c:/users/2die4/saved games/dcs.openbeta" folder and let DCS recreate a new one, thus ruling out any stray code. See if it corrects your immediate issues and show me a new DCS.log, if so then rebuilt your controls and logbook, etc from the backup file a bit at a time, leaving any MOD stuff till last.

 

 

If none of the above fixes any thing, a total wipe and reload is recommended.

 

 

 

2018-12-04 05:08:44.959 ALERT LUACOMMON: Error: GUI Error: [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_static.lua"]:1458: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)

GUI debug.traceback: stack traceback:

[C]: ?

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_static.lua"]:1458: in function 'updateTypes'

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_static.lua"]:1372: in function 'changeCountry'

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_static.lua"]:490: in function 'onChange'

[string "./dxgui/bind/ComboList.lua"]:21: in function 'callback'

[string "./dxgui/bind/Widget.lua"]:330: in function <[string "./dxgui/bind/Widget.lua"]:325>

2018-12-04 05:09:06.377 WARNING LOG: 1 duplicate message(s) skipped.

2018-12-04 05:09:06.377 ALERT LUACOMMON: Error: GUI Error: [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_static.lua"]:1458: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)

GUI debug.traceback: stack traceback:

[C]: ?

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_static.lua"]:1458: in function 'updateTypes'

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_static.lua"]:1349: in function 'setCountry'

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_aircraft.lua"]:1076: in function 'changeCountry'

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_aircraft.lua"]:1599: in function 'fillCountries'

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_aircraft.lua"]:1553: in function 'updateCountries'

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:1546: in function 'load'

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:3562: in function 'save'

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:3486: in function <[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:3480>

(tail call): ?

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_toolbar.lua"]:645: in function 'saveMission'

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_toolbar.lua"]:657: in function 'onChange'

[string "./dxgui/bind/ToggleButton.lua"]:20: in function 'callback'

[string "./dxgui/bind/Widget.lua"]:330: in function <[string "./dxgui/bind/Widget.lua"]:325>

 

 

Regards, Ian.

[Oh-Zee]

Thanks for all your time answering to my problems. This is the first time I've ever had a problem in 7 years and it happened with the last update, so it just kinda pointed to the update and not my set up. I also received an update for my video card at the same time, that probably didn't help. Also about my vram, it is under the requirements for low settings, but honestly I've been running the game at medium with some features off or on low with no problems. My system does allocate some of my 16 gigs of onboard ram for video. Like I said, been running just fine for many years. Well, once again, thanks for the time and I will look into the rebuild as a first step. I've seen this mentioned before, but don't know where this option is located. I just may option for the clean wipe and start over. If a clean wipe is the case, do I have to deactivate all my modules to this ? Thanks Barry:pilotfly:

[MadDog-IC]

Thanks for all your time answering to my problems.

 

 

Well, once again, thanks for the time and I will look into the rebuild as a first step. I've seen this mentioned before, but don't know where this option is located. I just may option for the clean wipe and start over. If a clean wipe is the case, do I have to deactivate all my modules to this ? Thanks Barry:pilotfly:

Your welcome.

 

You may be able to still run DCS with lower than recommended specs but I can only go on ED recommendations and am not questioning them. Others with lower end graphics cards to yours also had same problem with the later patches making DCS not run on their machines that did so previously.

 

Would try the rebuild of the "Saved Games" mentioned in other post first, exact path for your machine is shown.

 

Clean wipe of only DCS no need to deactivate, if your wiping your operating system (Windows) deactivation needed, changing any hardware, GPU, CPU, M/B Bios, HDD / SSD, RAM best to deactivate all to be on the safe side.

 

When removing DCS you will have to delete the main programs install path and the saved games settings folder other wise the old settings could still ruin the new install.

 

Regards, Ian.