DCS terminates when I want to play RAVEN ON, Serpents Heads 2 or FA-18C Aggressors BFM Campaign

[kotor633]

DCS terminates when I try to play RAVEN ON, Serpents Heads 2 or FA-18C Aggressors BFM Campaign. With Raven One and Serpents Head 2 it pops when I start the campaign with Start and then I'm in the loading screen. The loading bar loads through to the end, then the picture turns black and I'm on my local desktop. In the case of the Aggressors BFM campaign, I get to the runway every time and shortly after I have lifted the picture freezes and then DCS is ended. I'm using the latest DCS update, no mods, I've already tried my luck with cleanup and repair, I'm currently using the Nvidia driver 457.51. But I also had the problem with the previous Nvidia driver version.

dcs.20201205-013912.crash dcs.20201205-013913.crash dcs.20201205-015530.crash dcs.20201205-024427.crash dcs.20201205-024428.crash

[Flappie]

Hi. I have no clue how to read ".crash" files. Can you please attach the whole zip files? (they're supposed to contain useful files such as dcs.log and dxdiag.log)

Edited December 5, 2020 by Flappie

[kotor633]

Well actually quite easy. You take an editor, e.g. notepad ++ and use it to open the * .crash file. But no problem, I once attached a complete log to the post. I hope this helps.

dcs.log-20201205-011928.zip

[Flappie]

Oh, right, thank you. I thought it was a zip file. Anyway, I see the .crash file is only a small piece of the full dcs.log.

As you see, the full dcs.log file has way more info:

 

2020-12-05 01:19:28.595 INFO    Dispatcher: loadMission Done: Сontrol passed to the player
2020-12-05 01:19:28.610 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: failed to create structed buffer. Reason: E_OUTOFMEMORY
2020-12-05 01:19:28.610 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateShaderResourceView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.611 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateUnorderedAccessView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.612 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: failed to create structed buffer. Reason: E_OUTOFMEMORY
2020-12-05 01:19:28.612 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateShaderResourceView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.612 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateUnorderedAccessView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.612 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: failed to create structed buffer. Reason: E_OUTOFMEMORY
2020-12-05 01:19:28.612 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateShaderResourceView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.612 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateUnorderedAccessView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.613 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: failed to create structed buffer. Reason: E_OUTOFMEMORY
2020-12-05 01:19:28.613 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateShaderResourceView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.613 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateUnorderedAccessView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.613 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: failed to create structed buffer. Reason: E_OUTOFMEMORY
2020-12-05 01:19:28.613 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateShaderResourceView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.613 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateUnorderedAccessView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.615 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: failed to create structed buffer. Reason: E_OUTOFMEMORY
2020-12-05 01:19:28.615 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateShaderResourceView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.615 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateUnorderedAccessView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.616 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: failed to create structed buffer. Reason: E_OUTOFMEMORY
2020-12-05 01:19:28.616 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateShaderResourceView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.616 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateUnorderedAccessView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.617 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: failed to create structed buffer. Reason: E_OUTOFMEMORY
2020-12-05 01:19:28.617 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateShaderResourceView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.617 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateUnorderedAccessView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.617 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: failed to create structed buffer. Reason: E_OUTOFMEMORY
2020-12-05 01:19:28.617 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateShaderResourceView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.617 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateUnorderedAccessView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.618 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: failed to create structed buffer. Reason: E_OUTOFMEMORY
2020-12-05 01:19:28.618 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateShaderResourceView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.618 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateUnorderedAccessView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2020-12-05 01:19:28.623 INFO    EDCORE: try to write dump information
2020-12-05 01:19:28.626 INFO    EDCORE: # -------------- 20201205-011928 --------------
2020-12-05 01:19:28.627 INFO    EDCORE: DCS/2.5.6.58125 (x86_64; Windows NT 10.0.19041)
2020-12-05 01:19:28.628 INFO    EDCORE: C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNELBASE.dll
2020-12-05 01:19:28.631 INFO    EDCORE: # E06D7363  at 9BFC3E49 00:00000000
2020-12-05 01:19:28.634 INFO    EDCORE: SymInit: Symbol-SearchPath: '', symOptions: 530, UserName: 'heiko'
2020-12-05 01:19:28.635 INFO    EDCORE: OS-Version: 10.0.19041 () 0x100-0x1
2020-12-05 01:19:28.718 INFO    EDCORE: 0x00007FF89BFC3E49 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
2020-12-05 01:19:28.732 INFO    EDCORE: MiniDumpWriteDump failed. Error: 2147943855 

 

The "E_OUTOFMEMORY" message is clear: DCS was not given enough memory. At the beginning of the file, I see it was given a 4 GB pagefile when your PC has "only" 16 GB.

Please try this:

1. Identify one of your fastest disk (SSD, M2 or NVMe if you have one of those) and ensure it has at least ~70 GB of free space.
2. Manually set your pagefile into this disk, with 16 GB min / 32 GB max. You don't care if DCS isn't on the same disk, by the way.

[kotor633]

This darn pagefile ... Thanks for your hint. I'll try that and give a short feedback on whether it worked or not.

[kotor633]

Slides back as usual. I thank you.

[Flappie]

You mean your issue is gone? Or does DCS keep crashing?

[kotor633]

You mean your issue is gone? -> Yes.

[Flappie]

Ah, good.