Bunny Clark Posted June 14, 2019 Posted June 14, 2019 Hello all, I'm working on building my first real mission, but I'm having some loading issues when I try to test it. The mission loads just fine like normal, select coalition, read briefing, select slot, click on "Fly" - and then the game hangs. I'm staring at an external view of a random unit, not even in the coalition I am, for 5+ minutes with sound playing but unable to do anything, not even pan the view around. The aircraft isn't moving, the clock is not moving. Eventually I'm dropped into the cockpit and everything works fine. If I switch into a different slot though, the process starts all over again with another agonizingly long wait. This is happening both single player and multiplayer. Have I built a too complex mission? Did I do something else wrong? I haven't had this issue with any of the other missions I've ever played, nor any of the other (extremely simple) missions I've built. Oil In The Water Hornet Campaign. Bunny's: Form-Fillable Controller Layout PDFs | HOTAS Kneeboards | Checklist Kneeboards
ENO Posted June 14, 2019 Posted June 14, 2019 Hmmm that is strange. Maybe try a Repair on DCS? Maybe try save as a different mission name... Maybe it's just a corrupt mission file? Just save it as a new version of the same mission and try again. Depending on your system and the amount of AI you put in your mission this could play into it as well but 5+ minutes sounds excessive even for that. "ENO" Type in anger and you will make the greatest post you will ever regret. "Sweetest's" Military Aviation Art
Bunny Clark Posted June 15, 2019 Author Posted June 15, 2019 Holy shit, I figured it out, that took some experimenting. Repair install and saving as a new file didn't solve it, so I started deleting things until the problem went away. That took a really long time, because it turned out deleting my briefing text was what took my load times from an average of 6 1/2 minutes to just a few seconds. Now, the briefing was quite long, but still that confused me quite a lot until I realized that I had a dynamic kneeboard using kneeboard builder that copied the briefing text to a kneeboard. Once I deleted the custom kneeboards, the load time issue seems to be solved. :huh: Oil In The Water Hornet Campaign. Bunny's: Form-Fillable Controller Layout PDFs | HOTAS Kneeboards | Checklist Kneeboards
ENO Posted June 15, 2019 Posted June 15, 2019 Hope I remember that- it’ll be the first place I tell people to look next time! Glad you’re back on track. "ENO" Type in anger and you will make the greatest post you will ever regret. "Sweetest's" Military Aviation Art
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