Game stuck on loading screen as soon as pressing Campaigns or ending mission

[Juppie]

Hey,

there is some sort of issue with my DCS, either with the installation or save of campaign progress.

The behavior:

Clicking on CAMPAIGN from main menu will usually make DCS appear frozen while it is responding in task manager, the fix is to delete settings.lua from MissionEditor.

On the second try I started a mission, ended it with 100 score.

After exiting via ESC menu, I am presented with the debriefing. Pressing END MISSION (green) yields in nothing apparently. Pressing it multiple times awarded me with a medal.

What happens is that it awards me a 'successful mission' for every click on the END MISSION button, and adds kills/stats/etc to my pilot profile. I am stuck at this screen so I terminated DCS.exe to get out.

I noticed in the log this error:

2019-07-25 19:45:42.592 INFO    Lua: Lua CPU usage: metric: average mission execution: 15.8775 %
2019-07-25 19:46:58.028 INFO    Dispatcher: Stop
2019-07-25 19:46:58.037 INFO    TACVIEW.DLL: End of flight data recording
2019-07-25 19:47:01.157 INFO    Config: netview stopped
2019-07-25 19:47:01.189 INFO    DCS: wcTanker::onEvent:5
2019-07-25 19:47:01.189 INFO    EDCORE: (wcTanker::Channel)enterToState_:6
2019-07-25 19:47:01.189 INFO    EDCORE: (wcTanker)enterToState_:3
2019-07-25 19:47:01.263 INFO    TERRAIN: lSystem::CleanScenes()
2019-07-25 19:47:01.315 INFO    VISUALIZER: StopSimulation
2019-07-25 19:47:01.319 INFO    VISUALIZER: Stopped collection of statistic.
2019-07-25 19:47:01.358 INFO    EDCORE: (dDispatcher)enterToState_:3
2019-07-25 19:47:01.452 ERROR   LUA-GUI_MAP: Map cannot create object has class key[NavigationPointDescription]!
2019-07-25 19:48:01.587 ALERT   LUACOMMON: Error: GUI Error: [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_campaign.lua"]:1100: attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'result' (a nil value)
GUI debug.traceback: stack traceback:
[C]: ?
[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_campaign.lua"]:1100: in function 'updateStatistics'
[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_campaign.lua"]:282: in function 'update'
[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_campaign.lua"]:985: in function 'onReceiveMissionResults'
[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_debriefing.lua"]:351: in function 'endMission'
[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_debriefing.lua"]:330: in function 'onChange'
[string "./dxgui/bind/Button.lua"]:22: in function 'callback'
[string "./dxgui/bind/Widget.lua"]:330: in function <[string "./dxgui/bind/Widget.lua"]:325>
2019-07-25 19:48:11.671 WARNING LOG: 3 duplicate message(s) skipped.
2019-07-25 19:48:11.671 ALERT   LUACOMMON: Error: GUI Error: [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_campaign.lua"]:1100: attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'result' (a nil value)
GUI debug.traceback: stack traceback:
[C]: ?
[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_campaign.lua"]:1100: in function 'updateStatistics'
[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_campaign.lua"]:282: in function 'update'
[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_campaign.lua"]:611: in function 'show'
[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_debriefing.lua"]:181: in function 'func'
[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_wait_screen.lua"]:72: in function 'updater'
[string "./Scripts/UpdateManager.lua"]:64: in function <[string "./Scripts/UpdateManager.lua"]:40>

What will happen next time I try to enter the campaign menu, is that DCS will again be running, but stuck on the loading screen, with a similar error in the log, and the solution to that will be to delete the settings.lua from MissionEditor. This loop happened over a dozen of times already, and each time the solution is to remove the infected settings file. Don't wanna give up my campaign progress, it will be my 2nd time I lose it to DCS bugs :joystick:

debrief&log.zip

[SPAS79]

I'm having a similar issue... with a slightly different file but same structure. Did you manage to find a solution to this?

 

 

2020-02-29 19:15:06.722 ERROR_ONCE DX11BACKEND: render target 'mainDepthBuffer_copy' not found
2020-02-29 19:15:06.722 ERROR_ONCE DX11BACKEND: render target 'DummyShadowMap' not found
2020-02-29 19:15:07.660 ALERT   LUACOMMON: Error: GUI Error: [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_autobriefing.lua"]:122: attempt to concatenate field 'dialogsDir' (a nil value)
GUI debug.traceback: stack traceback:
   [C]: ?
   [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_autobriefing.lua"]:122: in function 'create_'
   [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_autobriefing.lua"]:354: in function 'show'
   [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_openfile.lua"]:627: in function 'func'
   [string "./Scripts/UI/ProgressBarDialog.lua"]:154: in function 'updater'
   [string "./Scripts/UpdateManager.lua"]:64: in function <[string "./Scripts/UpdateManager.lua"]:40>