Crash to blackscreen only in DCS

[Wali763]

Hi.

 

 

Is there any final conclusion to this problem?

 

 

Was it the video-card or just the drivers?

 

 

I also had the 2080Super from Zotac (Twin-fan) with the same Problems and sent it back after two days.

 

 

Im pretty sure, that it was not a power-related issue since my card (because of Vsync) was always running at only 70-90%. Overall System power-draw in DCS was about 250-270W whereas in 3Dmark it went up to ~380W. So DCS wasnt stressing my system enough to get power-related issues.

Edited September 30, 2019 by Wali763

[BIGNEWY]

Some have seen better results after under clocking their cards slightly.

[deadbert]

Hi.

 

 

Is there any final conclusion to this problem?

 

 

Was it the video-card or just the drivers?

 

 

I also had the 2080Super from Zotac (Twin-fan) with the same Problems and sent it back after two days.

 

Im pretty sure, that it was not a power-related issue since my card (because of Vsync) was always running at only 70-90%. Overall System power-draw in DCS was about 250-270W whereas in 3Dmark it went up to ~380W. So DCS wasnt stressing my system enough to get power-related issues.

 

Unfortunately no conclusion yet. I think it's fairly obvious it's DCS related but unless they want to provide us with some things to try then we're a bit stuck. Underclocking a card that runs at factory clock speeds is not a solution. Brand new PC and it hasn't even been turned on for 2 weeks after spending probably 50+ hours trying to troubleshoot this one.

 

I've sent my 2080 Super back and have purchased a 2080Ti which should be coming this week. Hopefully that will be an (expensive) solution.

 

To be honest I wish I had just kept my old GTX1070. This has been and expensive and stressful time trying to get some extra FPS from DCS.

 

A few people have posted issues that are different from my original post in this thread - I would suggest making new threads with your specifics so that it doesn't get lost here.

 

Chris

Edited September 30, 2019 by deadbert

[Wali763]

Unfortunately no conclusion yet. I think it's fairly obvious it's DCS related but unless they want to provide us with some things to try then we're a bit stuck. Underclocking a card that runs at factory clock speeds is not a solution. Brand new PC and it hasn't even been turned on for 2 weeks after spending probably 50+ hours trying to troubleshoot this one.

 

I've sent my 2080 Super back and have purchased a 2080Ti which should be coming this week. Hopefully that will be an (expensive) solution.

 

To be honest I wish I had just kept my old GTX1070. This has been and expensive and stressful time trying to get some extra FPS from DCS.

 

A few people have posted issues that are different from my original post in this thread - I would suggest making new threads with your specifics so that it doesn't get lost here.

 

Chris

 

 

Ok, thx.

 

 

I went for a 2070super, since I wanted a different chip and was not willing to invest that much into an 2080Ti. The 2070S worked flawlessly up to now and I dont have a reason to expect it differently. Having 5fps less (compared to 2080S) is also not a problem for me right now. But lets wait until I jump onto the VR-wagon!

Edited September 30, 2019 by Wali763

[JK07]

Same situation for me. Brand new (less than a month old) factory bought computer with a 2080 super. About 2-3 minutes into any flight I get a black screen crash that requires a hard reset to fix. No issues whatsoever with any other games. The weirdest thing is that if I use an HDMI cord rather than a DP cable it doesn’t happen. Any ideas?

[Komrad]

Just thought I would chime in on this thread as I have been having similar problems. I would be able to fly the A10C for about 3 minutes, sometimes less, before the sim froze to eventual black screen.

 

The error message in windows was a "display driver has stopped working and recovered" message. I had previously contacted DCS support about this and they suggested editing the TdrDelay registry entry.

 

This did not work, so I finally bit the bullet and down-clocked my Inno3d 1080ti factory overclocked card. I only took the core value down 30hz and the problem has now completely dissapeared. Just wanted to encourage you guys that there does seem to be a solution to this problem, in my case at least.

 

Bryan.

[Scofflaw]

I'm having the same issue. The game turns black, but I still have control for a few moments (hitting escape bring up a cursor, hitting it again return the regular cursor)

 

This only started happening yesterday, before that, the game would just crash to desktop, especially during missions.

 

I have a regular gtx 1080. I'm going to try playing with the MSI afterburner settings.

 

edit - figured it out, my corsair CPU cooler lost its drivers for some reason, and was sitting at idle. I had to manually update them - now it's back to making my office uncomfortably hot (and DCS stopped crashing)

Edited November 6, 2019 by Scofflaw

[JK07]

Still having this issue. ONLY happens in DCS. I run 5ish other games on ultra settings with no issues. DCS is essentially unplayable as sometimes it happens almost immediately upon entering the cockpit and sometimes I can fly for up to 5-10min before it happens.

 

ED, have we come up with any fixes other than undercooking are factory clocked card (2080 super)?

 

Very frustrating to say the least.

[D4niel]

First of all I must say I love this game and wish devs can fix as much as possible, as soon as possible. I have never before experienced as much voodoo with my computer or a game before. Actually zero voodoo before this game since windows 1995. Ironically zero is a number close to what I have since invested in games vs. XXX-XXXX€ in DCS World. Hardware + DCS module vice.

 

So I also have this problem and I have this problem also. Here is the cause in my case, what happens and how to fix it:

 

 

Cause:

Deleting Metashaders2 and fxo folder in /user/DCS

 

 

Result:

GPU powers down and sound starts clipping (system crash). Manual system restart required. This is a random time bomb type of anticipated event. What is going on in game has no effect. It would happen in main menu if I would idle there, usually happens when loading to cockpit and if not there, then very soon in game.

 

Fix:

Bang your head to that wall and it will go away! Yes! My procedure is to load each map once succesfully and then the crashing stops entirely. GPU overclock might crash faster or not, but after the problem is stabilized, I can set up a 10% overclock on my GPU and no problems.

 

There is nothing special in the log file. No errors and the last line is something like "passed control to player" or whatever related to all being completed succesfully.

 

Why do I delete these folders? I read somewhere that It might be a performance "boost" (reset to normal) if system changes had been made. My sad case is that I cant get crossfire to function and so I have been doing changes quite a lot during these couple of months. That is another story and I got high hopes its a hardware related issue, which will be fixed after I get a third GPU to cross-test the other two.

 

SOMEONE POSTED ABOUT PSU!!!

Dont waste your money! Not related to DCS (I hope so), my PSU began severely undervolting 3.3v and caused computer to crash. Similar like this, but it crashed, did not tilt with only GPU powered off. So now I got a new Seagate Prime Platinum 1300W PSU, wich is performing as it should and DCS is not.

 

 

GPU: r9 390 OC (x1, as CF is BS atm)

FX-8350 @ 4.9Ghz

16gp 2050mhz ram

2x SSD RAID 0

Sabertooth 990fx Mobo

(1300w PSU for future plans)

 

And my OC'd system is stable and its all components run cooler than they would at stock settings.

Edited December 22, 2019 by D4niel
Specs

[RS11]

Hi guys, it hasn't been long for me, I solved the problem by buying a new power supply.

Thank you all for your help, especially Firefox. :) :thumbup:

[sluggish]

On 9/4/2019 at 11:20 PM, deadbert said:

Hi

 

I'm having the following issue that only seems to happen in DCS! The computer will lock, monitors will go to black screens (no input) and the GPU fans will hit 100%. The PC needs to have a hard reboot as CTRL+SHIFT+WIN+B to reset the graphics driver doesn't help.

 

This happens on any mission - standard or DLC campaign and can happen after 2 minutes or 3 hours.

 

 

• Prime95 can run for 24 hours without error so I don't believe it's CPU/RAM related.
• Furmark can run for 12 hours without failing so I don't believe it's GPU power or temp related.
• Can run 3DMark DirectX11 benchmarks/stress tests without failing.
• After the crash there are still entries being written to event viewer (not related to this, a test script created to write an entry every 10 seconds) and if GPU-Z is running that continues to write to a long. Therefore Windows is still running in the background so it definitely appears GPU related.

 

 

I've tried the last 3 sets of NVidia drivers with the same result.

 

I've reinstalled Windows and only installed drivers and DCS (no copying of saved game folder, not even plugged in my HOTAS for testing) but get the same result.

 

Attached is a log and below are system specs. At a bit of a loss here!

 

AMD Ryzen 3700X

Gigabyte X570 AORUS Pro

16GB TEAM GROUP EDITION DDR4 3200MHZ

Nvidia 2080 Super

Windows 10 version 1903

 

Any help would be most appreciated.

 

Chris

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I have exactly same issue just with different GPU.

my GPU is 4070Ti 

power supply is more than enough 1000W

and of course, all drivers are updated

only DCS is causing this blask screen, all the other games are runnig smoothly. 

was there any solution ? 

 

Thanks 

Edited April 11, 2023 by sluggish