How to get out of the stuck splash screen.

[randomTOTEN]

It's happened to me enough that I've found the "easy" solution to this issue. I don't know if it's a window focus issue, but basically the black DCS World screen displays but the main menu loads behind it (including theme music).

 

Behind the "screen," everything is working fine. You can click menus items (but you can't see them or your mouse).

 

So... how do you cleanly exit this situation to try again?

 

The easy and clean way:

 

1. Tab out, then attempt to quit the simulator using regular windows interactions (I like to press the X that displays when I mouse over minimized DCS icon).

2. You don't see it, but DCS has "displayed" an invisible confirmation window "Are you sure you want to quit?" The one you would normally see if you tried quitting DCS from outside the main menu (or anywhere else).

3. The default key command to confirm the exit is ENTER, when you press that key (even though you can see none of this), the simulator closes using the normal quit command.

 

Less easy way:

1. Move your invisible mouse to the invisible location of the EXIT button and click it.

 

The dirty way:

2. Brute force the program to end using the task manager.

 

This breakthrough has completely knocked the wind out of this bug for me, and now it's nothing more than a slight annoyance.:thumbup:

[MAXsenna]

Two other ways.

1. Lctrl+Lshft+esc to bring up the Windows Task Manger (Windows default keyboard shortcut), and just end DCS task.

2. Even WAY better. Install Skatezilla's excellent launcher app.

 

Cheers!

 

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