[RESOLVED]Crash/Freeze - Single Player

[Tubes]

Hi guys.

So, I’ve had DCS installed for about a week, and I am in love with it.

However, I seem to be having issues with constant crashing & freezing. I’m flying the SU25 only, and haven’t added any mods.

Most often either a) when I’ve flown miles to a target area, then when there more vehicles around it freezes/crashes, or b) when following launched weapons in F6 view.

Another issue is that with WATER set to anything other than LOW, I get total screen whiteout from the glare.

My rig is newly built, and the builders (wired2fire) assure it should be more than capable of running DCS.

 

nVidia GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8GB GDDR6 Graphics Card

32GB Corsair DDR4 2666MHz C16 Quad Channel Memory Kit (2x16GB)

Asus Prime B360M-K Motherboard

500gb SSD

Acer Nitro VG270 27 Inch Thin Bezel Monitor

Intel Core i7 9700K 8 Core Socket 1151

Noctua NH-U14S CPU Cooler

X56 Rhino HOTAS

 

I have tried the following:

 

Uninstall/reinstall

Making an exception for AVG anti virus

Running as administrator

Tweaking graphics settings

Reinstalling GPU driver

Reinstalling HOTAS driver

 

Nothing seems to make any difference.

Would greatly appreciate any tips or ideas before I send it back to be checked out, as right now I feel as though I’ve bought a £1600 paper weight :(

Good news is that I seem to be pretty decent at ground-pounding with the Frog, now I just need it to work!

 

Thanks in advance everybody.

[draconus]

How about different GPU drivers? (not reinstalling the same one)

[BIGNEWY]

Hi

 

Can you attach you dcs log it can be found in your saved games location it should give us some clues. Or attach the zip folder created after the crash in the same location.

 

C:\Users\yourname\Saved Games\DCS\Logs

 

See my signature for crash advice, also are you overcloking your GPU?

 

Thanks

[Tubes]

Hi

 

Can you attach you dcs log it can be found in your saved games location it should give us some clues. Or attach the zip folder created after the crash in the same location.

 

C:\Users\yourname\Saved Games\DCS\Logs

 

See my signature for crash advice, also are you overcloking your GPU?

 

Thanks

I’m in surgery (working, not the patient) all day but as soon as s I get home I’ll do just that. Thanks.

[Tubes]

How about different GPU drivers? (not reinstalling the same one)

Should have said, I’m also useless with computers! How do I do that? I only have the Nvidia one installed on the desktop...thanks.

[draconus]

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en

[BitMaster]

use DDU from Guru3d.com to uninstall your current driver.

 

https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

 

to boot into save mode, hold SHIFT in the log-in screen and then click the Power Icon on the lower right hand corner and choose reboot, then use DDU.

[BIGNEWY]

I’m in surgery (working, not the patient) all day but as soon as s I get home I’ll do just that. Thanks.

 

Please, do not rush :)

[Tubes]

Ok so here's the logs that I have, hopefully they might be of some help.

I'm just updating Windows, and will then follow the advice in the signature.

Thanks again.

dcs.log-20200109-201757.zip

dcs.log-20200110-231904.zip

dcs.log-20200110-232039.zip

dcs.log-20200111-143044.zip

dcs.log-20200111-143150.zip

dcs.log-20200112-001706.zip

dcs.log-20200112-013254.zip

dcs.log-20200112-013458.zip

dcs.log-20200112-015251.zip

dcs.log-20200112-214855.zip

dcs.log-20200113-233732.zip

dcs.log-20200114-204244.zip

[BIGNEWY]

Hi

 

Please check your dedicated graphics card is the one plugged into your monitor and not the onboard graphics.

 

DCSWorld is not using your dedicated GPU

 

DCS: gDescription: "Intel® UHD Graphics 630" gVendorId: 32902 gDeviceId: 16024 gMemory: 128 MB

[Tubes]

Hi

 

Please check your dedicated graphics card is the one plugged into your monitor and not the onboard graphics.

 

DCSWorld is not using your dedicated GPU

 

Great, thank you.

I’m sorry I have to ask, but how do I rectify this?

[draconus]

I’m sorry I have to ask, but how do I rectify this?

Look where the cable from the monitor goes to.

 

[Tubes]

Oh my, is it really that simple? I was looking at this:

https://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/force-app-to-use-dedicated-gpu-windows/

From memory I don’t know if the back of the PC actually has 2x VGA slots (it definitely doesn’t have any HDMI slots).

Hopefully it does and this will all be sorted for tonight.

Thanks guys, you’re amazing.

[draconus]

If in doubt send us a picture.

[Tubes]

Brilliant, looks like that’s done the trick guys.

Thanks so much for taking the time to help me out. Now....to the skies!!!

[BIGNEWY]

Brilliant, looks like that’s done the trick guys.

Thanks so much for taking the time to help me out. Now....to the skies!!!

 

Great to hear enjoy :)