Dirty Rotten Flieger Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 Tried to update to 2.7 this morning and can't start the updater. Also can't start DCS either. downloaded a new version of the updater and tried that. Same thing: 00000.190 --- Log file: C:\Users\JC\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS\autoupdate_templog.txt 00000.000 === Log opened UTC 2021-04-15 23:07:48 00000.022 INFO : DCS_Updater/2.11.1.83 (Windows NT 10.0.19041; Win64; en-US) 00000.022 INFO : src-id: 24d5f8ee266f56820c3a2b4568594f68e8dd773e, lib-id: bf64e300edca29ae7ef5ba1d4db27e53a1213fa2 00000.023 INFO : cmdline: "D:\DCS World\bin\DCS_updater.exe" update 00000.145 STATUS: Initializing... 00000.147 INFO : basedir: D:\DCS World\ 00000.190 ERROR: Can't parse config: JSON error: lexical error: invalid char in json text. ÙÕù ¡c× (right here) ------^ 00000.210 INFO : Config contents: --- BEGIN --- ÙÕù ¡c× 00000.210 INFO : Config contents: --- END --- 00000.211 STATUS: JSON error: lexical error: invalid char in json text. ÙÕù ¡c× (right here) ------^ I notice that the address in documents is C:\Users\JC\Saved Games\DCS.openalpha instead of openbeta but this has been mislabelled like that for a long time. I also noticed that the variant doc file in the installation folder had openalpha as variant so I changed that to open beta. I suspect all of this is beside the point anyway... I don't know where json text is ? Also last week I was having trouble with certain maps so tried running full slow repair and it would hang my PC about two third of way through. So I deleted the maps and redownloaded and it worked fine till 2.7. Anyone know where json file is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Rotten Flieger Posted April 15, 2021 Author Share Posted April 15, 2021 (edited) I think found the problem. It seems the SSD DCS is installed on is broken and it's just a coincidence that 2.7 came out. dam. This is a 240 gig download ! and the down loader won't even let us throttle it or pause it ... SMH Edited April 15, 2021 by Dirty Rotten Flieger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SliderCDN Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 Are you 100% sure? I have the same issue on 2 separate drives, but only with the Updater. Starting the base game with DCS.exe works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Rotten Flieger Posted April 16, 2021 Author Share Posted April 16, 2021 I'm not sure of anything at this point. The same SSD has Escape from Tarkov on it, and it won't start either but I am able to repair EFT. I can't repair DCS maybe because it is over 240 gig. ireaslly don't want to delete it and reinstall as that will take days at the speed it downloads. Is there a way to repair DCS in smaller chunks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SliderCDN Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 It's a big update and looks like more things broke than got fixed, as usual. Give it a few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Rotten Flieger Posted April 16, 2021 Author Share Posted April 16, 2021 Just letting you know slider. My problem is definitely a broken SSD... Good luck problem solving yours. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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