[RESOLVED]Trail problem

[Airmage]

Hi.

 

Since a while, trails of both high flying aircraft and missiles are looking interrupted.

 

Can't explain why or when exactly it ocurred.

 

Got 3 pics to show it.

 

Any help?

 

Cheers.

[BIGNEWY]

Hi

 

are you running any mods or tweaks?

 

Can you run a cleanup and repair or verify for steam.

 

If it still happens please save a short track replay and attach your dcs log here, it may show us some clues.

 

thank you

[Airmage]

The mods i use:

 

Su27 english cockpit, MiG-21 metric cockpit, F-18 engine sounds.

 

Additional modules:

 

A-4C, StarWars mod, VSN Eurofighter, VSN UFO, SU-57, MiG-23(last 2 by Cubanace).

Logs.rar

[Airmage]

Uploaded track here.

F18trailTEST.trk

[BIGNEWY]

Hi

 

your logs show a crash and some shader errors.

 

I would recommend removing all unofficial mods and run a cleanup and repair.

 

Ensure your Windows and GPU driver are up to date.

 

Also in your saved games dcs folder delete the metashader2 and fxo folder and dcs will rebuild them when restarted.

 

If you still see the same can you do a short track replay showing it happen and attach it here, I will try and reproduce.

 

thank you

 

edit: snipped by track, checking now

[Airmage]

Repair did not work. Also i have no idea when exactly this issue was triggers, or by what.

[Airmage]

Could F-18 skins cause this? I mean after some recent update?

 

I made a short clip here:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0UWsVGX7Bw

[BIGNEWY]

Yes something is causing it for sure,

 

I can not reproduce it on my machine.

[Airmage]

Ok so, tries all of the above, nothing works. Out of ideas.

[Airmage]

So sorry i went for radeon again, their drivers are a total mess.

[Maverick_NL]

Did you Run a Repair / Cleanup of the files?

 

see below:

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/support/faq/709/

 

 

Or

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=160053

 

 

So sorry i went for radeon again, their drivers are a total mess.

 

 

BTW its not the radeon drivers, i run a RX580 as well with the latest driver updates. i don't have any problems with it at all.

 

 

i dont no if you have changed some settings in the adrenaline software?

Edited December 18, 2019 by Maverick_NL

[BIGNEWY]

As maverick mentions do a cleanup and repair after you remove your unofficial mods.

 

I have a guide in my signature below

[Airmage]

NOTHING worked. NOTHING. I'm gonna smash this thing on the desk. Right now i've deleted the entire Bazar folder, and every folder that has effects, particle and shader in their names. Hope it works.

[strikers_blade]

Might sound silly but have you tried wiping out the whole game and starting from scratch?

If you totally clean your folder and start from a fresh new copy of DCS, you should not have any problems what so ever. If you do, it is most likely not DCS at this point and more a windows/GPU problem do be addressed differently, such as re-installing your GPU drivers from scratch.

 

NOTHING worked. NOTHING. I'm gonna smash this thing on the desk. Right now i've deleted the entire Bazar folder, and every folder that has effects, particle and shader in their names. Hope it works.

[Airmage]

Video driver was reinstalled yesterday. After deleting eveything+repair, problem still there.

 

I remember about a year ago, i had some serious stuttering issue without apparent reason, and the only solution was reinstall windows+game. But right now i don't want to do that. Too much work for a small issue.

[Airmage]

Just out of curiosity, what are the files wich contain the contrail data? Anyone know their location? It seems my contrails have the same texture but are more scarcely added.

[Art-J]

If repair and cleanup doesn't work, the third troubleshooting step should always be temporary removing/renaming the whole Saved Games/DCS folder. That will reset all your settings and controls obviously, but you've got the replay track so don't need them anyway, at least now, for narrowing down the problem.

[Airmage]

Tried that too, problem is not there.

[Airmage]

Complete video driver + game reinstall and problem solved.

[BIGNEWY]

Might be relevant here from an old post for AMD users

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=153998