CTD in MP

[Dustoff74]

After a while , ranging from about 15min to 1 hour DCS freezes then CTD without any error message. So far only in MP on different serves, lot of player seem to make it worse.

 

What I did so far:

-Repair DCS

-Check Pagefile (set to manual 16384 for 16GB of RAM)

-Put the autoexec.cfg into .../config, but it doesn't seem to to anything.

-the .zip log is corrupted and it didn't get created with the latest crashes.

-all crash logs involve the # C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION but with different files: d3d11.dll, edCore.dll, DCS.exe

 

Right now I'm running DCS on my backup rig which is a bit dated, but runs DCS fine besides the crashes.

 

Latest crash log:

 

# -------------- 20210303-204239 --------------
DCS/2.5.6.61527 (x86_64; Windows NT 10.0.19042)
D:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\edterrainGraphics41.dll
# C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at 2D5252A5 00:00000000
SymInit: Symbol-SearchPath: '.;D:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta;D:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\system32;SRV*C:\websymbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols;', symOptions: 530, UserName: 'Henning'
OS-Version: 10.0.19042 () 0x100-0x1
0x00007F94D4529DE5 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x00000129AAD5BA18 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x00007F94D452B990 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x0000012C28EB9CA8 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x0000000000002E50 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0xFFFFFF97A7004B3E ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x00000120B39DEFC0 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x0000012C2E9D5C00 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x0000000000004678 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0xFFFFFF97A7004B4F ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0xFFFFFF97A7004DD8 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0xFFFFFF97A7004B4E ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x0000012C2E9D5C00 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x00000120B39DEFC0 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x00007F94D452C590 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x00000129AAD5BA18 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0xFFFFFF97A700EB45 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0
0x00000120B39DEFC0 ((module-name not available)): (function-name not available) + 0x0

[Flappie]

Hi @Dustoff74. I'm not 100% sure, but it looks like a memory crash (see example here). Please attach the dcs.log file produced by this crash (it must start with "#---- 20210303-204239 ----"). It's located in Saved Games\DCS...\Logs\.

[Dustoff74]

Hi @Flappie, thanks for looking into it. I attached the dcs.log and dcs.log.zip. The .zip didn't get updated with the latest crash, but at least with the crashes before. I guess it's some kind of special zip, because I'm unable to open it?

dcs.log dcs.log-20210302-190354.zip

[Flappie]

Thank you.

That's what I thought: there are a few memory related error messages prior to the crash:

 

  ...
2021-03-03 20:41:39.358 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: Can't load image '/textures/liveries/f-16c_50/174th_fighter_squadron/F16_bl50_Main_1_RoughMet.dds'. Reason: The request is not supported.

2021-03-03 20:41:48.018 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: Failed to create shader resource view for /textures/liveries/f-16c_50/64th_aggressor_squadron_ghost/F16_bl50_Main_3_Ghost.dds. Reason: Not enough memory resources are available to complete this operation.

2021-03-03 20:41:48.018 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: Failed to create shader resource view for /textures/liveries/f-16c_50/64th_aggressor_squadron_ghost/F16_bl50_Main_2_Ghost_RoughMet.dds. Reason: Not enough memory resources are available to complete this operation.

2021-03-03 20:41:48.124 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: Can't load image '/textures/liveries/f-16c_50/64th_aggressor_squadron_ghost/F16_bl50_wing_L_Ghost.dds'. Reason: The request is not supported.

2021-03-03 20:41:48.168 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: Failed to create shader resource view for /textures/liveries/f-16c_50/64th_aggressor_squadron_ghost/F16_bl50_Kil_Ghost_RoughMet.dds. Reason: Not enough memory resources are available to complete this operation.

2021-03-03 20:41:48.254 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: Failed to create shader resource view for /textures/liveries/f-16c_50/64th_aggressor_squadron_ghost/F16_bl50_wing_L_Ghost_RoughMet.dds. Reason: Not enough memory resources are available to complete this operation.

2021-03-03 20:41:48.284 DEBUG   Scripting: make: country: 	2
2021-03-03 20:41:48.284 DEBUG   Scripting: Phrases make : key = 1
2021-03-03 20:41:48.284 DEBUG   Scripting: 	 AWACSCallsign:make
2021-03-03 20:41:48.284 DEBUG   Scripting: Phrases make : key = 1
2021-03-03 20:41:48.284 DEBUG   Scripting: Phrases make : key = 4359
2021-03-03 20:41:54.948 ERROR   EDCORE: Not enough memory to decmpress: F16_bl50_Main_3_55FS.dds
  ...

 

 

Maybe you should consider adding more RAM to your rig. In the meantime, set your pagefile max size to 32768 (keep the initial size to 16384) and see if DCS keeps crashing in MP.

Also ensure you have enough free space in your disks.

[Dustoff74]

1 hour ago, Flappie said:

Maybe you should consider adding more RAM to your rig. In the meantime, set your pagefile max size to 32768 (keep the initial size to 16384) and see if DCS keeps crashing in MP.

Also ensure you have enough free space in your disks.

 

 Hi @Flappie, thanks for shedding some light on my issue. I was afraid you would say something along those lines. Right now it doesn't make any sense to upgrade the RAM since I plan to retire the whole system, as soon as I can upgrade my main PC. That is, when GPUs will be available again, one fine day, in a galaxy... well, fingers crossed!

I'll increase my pagefile and hope it helps until then.

Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it!