First Launch Splash Screen Stays

[Owl Dynamic]

With a high probability, when starting the game the initial splash screen will not go away. The music plays and the menu buttons seem to be functional, but I cannot see anything. Launching a second time and the problem disappears, but it is very annoying. Unfortunately the logs do not show a difference between successfull and failed launches. It might be a driver level error from AMD, because I have seen similar first vs second launch behaviour on other rare occasions.

dcs_nostart.log

[Rudel_chw]

... It might be a driver level error from AMD, because I have seen similar first vs second launch behaviour on other rare occasions.

 

I agree ... probably a driver error, check Temps of your VGA to be sure it isnt overheating. Your log shows nothing related to the problem and is almost the same as mine, where I don't have this problem.

[BIGNEWY]

Hi

 

Logs not showing any issue.

 

I would try a fresh driver install to try and rule it out.

 

thanks

[sthompson]

I experience this fairly often too. Seems to be related to me being impatient when DCS is loading slowly. If I Alt-TAB to another application while it is loading there is a good chance that when I come back to DCS I will only have the black background splash screen with version number display, and no way to display the GUI, which clearly is running in the background (music playing, etc.). If I do not interrupt the DCS startup then it works fine.

 

I'm running an Nvidea 1060 with up-to-date drivers.

Edited July 31, 2020 by sthompson
add graphics card info

[Flappie]

Hi OwlDynamic. I think I've identified a pattern among several users and you're one of them: could you try the solution identified at the end of this post?

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4403760&postcount=9

[Flappie]

Hi. Someone else found a slightly different solution here:

 

Hey! Apparently it works now!

So what I changed was:

>Set Full Screen to TRUE and set the correct resolution in options.lua

>Open via AMD software

[Bogey Jammer]

I confirm that just turning off the full screen setting in options.lua can resolve the problem. I have an intel CPU.

Weird, that option was always on, and DCS is still in fullscreen mode even if it's turned off…

I can hardly remember that recently I fiddled with a dropdown selector with 3 options of some sort of fullscreen setting. Two of them were about fullscreen mode. I thought it was weird because it was already full screen. But I can't manage to find this selector again…

[BIGNEWY]

Thanks for the feedback

 

I will mention it to the team