Crash/Hang

[coinball]

Hey Gang - I've got crashing issues in both DCS and DCS Open Beta. I recently did a completely clean install of Windows 10 and DCS and the issue persisted. It seems to be worse if I use all 3 monitors, I'll get a variable amount of time flying - sometimes 5 minutes, sometimes 20 minutes - and then it'll crash but not back to desktop, the sound will continue on but the screens go blank and the fans on the video card and/or CPU go full tilt. I have to hard reset the machine from there.

 

Nothing in event viewer and the DCS log doesn't have anything useful - just some sound related errors:

2019-07-29 22:21:53.447 WARNING F-14: F-14 Build vs DCS version mismatch! Built with: 2.5.5.32533, DCS is: 2.5.5.33184

2019-07-29 22:21:54.986 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(F14_PILOT_COCKPIT:aircrafts\engines\f110intakeint_01): gain

2019-07-29 22:21:54.987 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(F14_PILOT_COCKPIT:aircrafts\engines\f110engineint01): gain

2019-07-29 22:21:54.987 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(F14_PILOT_COCKPIT:aircrafts\engines\f110intakeint_02): gain

2019-07-29 22:21:54.987 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(F14_PILOT_COCKPIT:aircrafts\engines\f110engineint02): gain

2019-07-29 22:21:54.997 INFO WORLDGENERAL: loaded from mission Scripts/World/birds.lua

2019-07-29 22:21:54.997 INFO DCS: dbox not found , skip

2019-07-29 22:21:55.082 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 0 0 squares

2019-07-29 22:21:55.082 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 1 0 squares

2019-07-29 22:21:55.082 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() 0.328500 ms

2019-07-29 22:21:55.124 INFO VISUALIZER: Preload() camera=-74119.240225, 2057.836448, -38448.772018 radius=60000.000000

2019-07-29 22:21:55.124 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: ITerrainGraphicsImpl4::forceLoading(): pos=(-74119.2, 2057.84, -38448.8), radius=60000

2019-07-29 22:21:55.299 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 clean up LOD 0: left 25 released 35

2019-07-29 22:21:55.299 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 clean up 1.624700 ms

2019-07-29 22:21:56.566 ERROR SOUND: can't load wave: "effects\aircrafts\engines\f14_rear_distant_02"

2019-07-29 22:21:57.608 ERROR SOUND: can't load wave: "foley\floppylever_start_257"

2019-07-29 22:21:57.998 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 clean up LOD 1: left 52 released 17

2019-07-29 22:21:57.998 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 clean up 0.769100 ms

2019-07-29 22:21:58.385 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 clean up 0.000200 ms

2019-07-29 22:21:59.194 WARNING LOG: 1 duplicate message(s) skipped.

2019-07-29 22:21:59.194 ERROR SOUND: can't load wave: "effects\aircrafts\engines\j79-17_eng2_reheat"

2019-07-29 22:22:02.377 ERROR_ONCE DX11BACKEND: texture 'bake2pan_normals' not found. Asked from 'NGMODEL'

2019-07-29 22:22:04.690 INFO VISUALIZER: Preload() finished

2019-07-29 22:22:04.695 INFO DCS: Screen: mission_offline

2019-07-29 22:22:04.695 INFO Dispatcher: precache units resources in slots

2019-07-29 22:22:04.768 INFO Lua: Lua CPU usage: metric: average mission loading: 5.1576 %

2019-07-29 22:22:04.768 INFO Dispatcher: loadMission Done: Сontrol passed to the player

2019-07-29 22:22:08.551 ERROR DX11BACKEND: Failed assert `false && "unknown format"` at Projects\render\dx11backend_win8\Source\DX11Utils.cpp:39

2019-07-29 22:22:08.551 WARNING DX11BACKEND: Texture './Mods/aircraft/F14/Cockpit/Resources/IndicationTextures/HB_VDI_Broken.dds' has unknown format: 95

2019-07-29 22:22:32.521 INFO Lua: Lua CPU usage: metric: average mission execution: 1.7173 %

2019-07-29 22:23:48.055 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(woLA-16781568:aircrafts\engines\su27aroundengine2): gain

2019-07-29 22:23:48.056 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(woLA-16781824:aircrafts\engines\su27aroundengine2): gain

2019-07-29 22:24:09.378 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(woLA-16820224:aircrafts\engines\f110afterburnerrearclose): gain

2019-07-29 22:24:09.815 WARNING LOG: 1 duplicate message(s) skipped.

2019-07-29 22:24:09.815 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 0 206 squares

2019-07-29 22:24:09.820 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 1 211 squares

2019-07-29 22:24:09.820 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() 14.756800 ms

2019-07-29 22:24:14.047 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 0 134 squares

2019-07-29 22:24:14.049 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 1 134 squares

2019-07-29 22:24:14.049 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() 8.834300 ms

2019-07-29 22:24:51.790 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(woLA-16782080:aircrafts\engines\su27aroundengine2): gain

2019-07-29 22:24:51.791 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(woLA-16782336:aircrafts\engines\su27aroundengine2): gain

2019-07-29 22:24:55.274 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(F14_PILOT_COCKPIT:aircrafts\f-14\windrushing): gain

2019-07-29 22:25:53.892 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(woLA-16785152:aircrafts\engines\su27aroundengine2): gain

2019-07-29 22:25:53.893 ERROR SOUND: invalid source_params(woLA-16785408:aircrafts\engines\su27aroundengine2): gain

 

System Specs:

Gigabyte 990FX Gaming

AMD FX8350

Radeon Vega 64 Frontier Edition 16GB - triple Dell 25" 2560x1440 monitors

32GB Kingston Hyper X 1866

M.2 512GB SSD OS (Windows 10)

Samsung 480GB SSD (one for DCS and one for DCS Open Beta)

 

Any suggestions?

[GPatricks]

I'm no expert but I would run MSI Afterburner during play (tick everything in the Monitoring Tab you want to view live graphs afterwards, but just tick "Show in On-Screen Display" for GPU - GPU1 temperature/GPU1 usage/GPU1 memory usage/GPU1 core clock/GPU1 memory clock and for CPU - CPU temperature/CPU usage/CPU clock and finally RAM usage OSD while playing and see where your temperatures are. It sounds like (black screen/GPU fans at max) your video card is overheating.. be sure to tick "Show On-screen Display in captured screenshots and videos" under the On-Screen Display Tab so you can post them if needed.

 

MSI hint - After you run it you will see the blank graphs where there are no sensors to read (I use the "Default MSI Afterburner v3 skin - big edition" Interface). Go back into monitoring and uncheck them and move the 'Active Hardware Monitoring Graphs" order to your liking (drag and drop) to clean the display up..

Edited July 30, 2019 by GaryR

[coinball]

I'm no expert but I would run MSI Afterburner during play (tick everything in the Monitoring Tab you want to view live graphs afterwards, but just tick "Show in On-Screen Display" for GPU - GPU1 temperature/GPU1 usage/GPU1 memory usage/GPU1 core clock/GPU1 memory clock and for CPU - CPU temperature/CPU usage/CPU clock and finally RAM usage OSD while playing and see where your temperatures are. It sounds like (black screen/GPU fans at max) your video card is overheating.. be sure to tick "Show On-screen Display in captured screenshots and videos" under the On-Screen Display Tab so you can post them if needed.

 

MSI hint - After you run it you will see the blank graphs where there are no sensors to read (I use the "Default MSI Afterburner v3 skin - big edition" Interface). Go back into monitoring and uncheck them and move the 'Active Hardware Monitoring Graphs" order to your liking (drag and drop) to clean the display up..

 

Thanks for the suggestion - it indeed appears the GPU was overheating, the fan speed stayed at 14% no matter what. So I forced it to full speed and no crashing issues even with all 3 monitors active again.