SliderCDN Posted May 6, 2021 Posted May 6, 2021 Last update broke the sim as usual. It sort of worked until yesterday, now it crashes when I press Fly in any plane. dcs.log.old
SliderCDN Posted May 6, 2021 Author Posted May 6, 2021 dcs.log When it does start, it doesn't work more than minute or two sitting in the pit.
Pocket Kings Posted May 7, 2021 Posted May 7, 2021 Wow you have more "texture not found" errors than Venice has bridges. Are you aware of that? Did you try to repair DCS? 1
SliderCDN Posted May 7, 2021 Author Posted May 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Pocket Kings said: Wow you have more "texture not found" errors than Venice has bridges. Are you aware of that? Did you try to repair DCS? If 4 repairs didn't fix it, it's broken as usual.
silverdevil Posted May 7, 2021 Posted May 7, 2021 13 minutes ago, SliderCDN said: If 4 repairs didn't fix it, it's broken as usual. @SliderCDN - I saw you posted a reply to another topic on Sunday stating you were successful flying and shooting. What changed? And "as usual"? Not sure where your previous lengthy post ended up. Seems to be same issue. Except now 2.7? AKA_SilverDevil Join AKA Wardogs Email Address My YouTube “The MIGS came up, the MIGS were aggressive, we tangled, they lost.” - Robin Olds - An American fighter pilot. He was a triple ace. The only man to ever record a confirmed kill while in glide mode.
SliderCDN Posted May 7, 2021 Author Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) dcs.log Game getting broken with updates as usual. Last patch broke it all. It worked 3/4 of the time before that, but Wednesday's update broke it AGAIN, AS USUAL. I sit in the plane for 2-3 minutes doing nothing and it just closes without error or warning. Do note this all started happening same day as update. I was in TTI server when server went down for update. So I updated, tried playing the game again and problems started. Edited May 7, 2021 by SliderCDN
silverdevil Posted May 7, 2021 Posted May 7, 2021 Like pocket kings said you have lots of "ERROR EDCORE: Can't open file". AKA_SilverDevil Join AKA Wardogs Email Address My YouTube “The MIGS came up, the MIGS were aggressive, we tangled, they lost.” - Robin Olds - An American fighter pilot. He was a triple ace. The only man to ever record a confirmed kill while in glide mode.
SliderCDN Posted May 7, 2021 Author Posted May 7, 2021 Just now, silverdevil said: Like pocket kings said you have lots of "ERROR EDCORE: Can't open file". That's great. That doesn't help me, because if I knew what the problem was, I wouldn't be asking for help, would I? Do note this all started happening same day as update. I was in TTI server when server went down for update. So I updated, tried playing the game again and problems started. Literally 3 minutes after I updated DCS. More crashes. dcs.log
silverdevil Posted May 7, 2021 Posted May 7, 2021 This topic kinda fell off the earth. What ever came of these problems? AKA_SilverDevil Join AKA Wardogs Email Address My YouTube “The MIGS came up, the MIGS were aggressive, we tangled, they lost.” - Robin Olds - An American fighter pilot. He was a triple ace. The only man to ever record a confirmed kill while in glide mode.
SliderCDN Posted May 7, 2021 Author Posted May 7, 2021 21 minutes ago, silverdevil said: This topic kinda fell off the earth. What ever came of these problems? ED support just stopped caring long ago it seems and with 2.7, too much changed for it to matter. 2.7 slightly improved the situation, but not really. Then came update 2 days ago and broke it all again.
silverdevil Posted May 7, 2021 Posted May 7, 2021 I do not personally use this. I have heard that it does a good job of cleanup. have you tried it? At this point I don't suppose it will hurt anything since DCS is not usually working for you. AKA_SilverDevil Join AKA Wardogs Email Address My YouTube “The MIGS came up, the MIGS were aggressive, we tangled, they lost.” - Robin Olds - An American fighter pilot. He was a triple ace. The only man to ever record a confirmed kill while in glide mode.
SliderCDN Posted May 7, 2021 Author Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) I have been using it for last few months, very nice tool to make 50 launch attempts to get that one that works for a little bit. Clean up, slow repairs..I lost count how many I've done. Edited May 7, 2021 by SliderCDN
Pocket Kings Posted May 7, 2021 Posted May 7, 2021 I don't want to worsen your already "great mood", but here are two suggestions: 1. Are you able to check your SSD integrity? This could be an issue too. Whenever new data is written to bad cells, in this case a major upgrade to 2.7, the data obviously can get corrupted. And no, NTFS wouldn't neccessarily recognize it, it's and old filesystem with very limited checksumming capabilities. Plus these drives notoriously lie about written blocks. 2. For the future, if you have the funds, buy a second hard drive the same size or bigger than your working drive and clone it before performing a major upgrade. If you're willing to do it, I can assist you with further instructions. Doesn't cost anything except your time and another hard drive. I'm probably lucky considering everybody and their mum seems to have issues with 2.7 and the subsequent minor upgrade. I don't have these issues, but I also run DCS in an isolated environment without anything unneccessary.
SliderCDN Posted May 7, 2021 Author Posted May 7, 2021 37 minutes ago, Pocket Kings said: I don't want to worsen your already "great mood", but here are two suggestions: 1. Are you able to check your SSD integrity? This could be an issue too. Whenever new data is written to bad cells, in this case a major upgrade to 2.7, the data obviously can get corrupted. And no, NTFS wouldn't neccessarily recognize it, it's and old filesystem with very limited checksumming capabilities. Plus these drives notoriously lie about written blocks. 2. For the future, if you have the funds, buy a second hard drive the same size or bigger than your working drive and clone it before performing a major upgrade. If you're willing to do it, I can assist you with further instructions. Doesn't cost anything except your time and another hard drive. I'm probably lucky considering everybody and their mum seems to have issues with 2.7 and the subsequent minor upgrade. I don't have these issues, but I also run DCS in an isolated environment without anything unneccessary. I'm in a lovely mood, specially when it comes to DCS. If you have a few hours to read through the above linked thread, you will see I had problems with DCS (only DCS and nothing else) on 2 different SSDs after multiple clean Windows reinstalls. It's a DCS problem. 2.7 reduced the problems, but not fully, but I was at least able to fly a little more than CTD. Wednesday's update took all that away and now it crashes as soon as I load into 3D or very shortly after. I've updated NVIDIA drivers with DDU, zero change. I do not know why the sudden DD11 crashes...
Pocket Kings Posted May 7, 2021 Posted May 7, 2021 Wait, what do you mean by DD11? Do you mean DX11? Your logfiles indicate that those files can't be read off of hard drive, as if the filesystem was corrupted or the files have been tampered with or a permissions violation. Subsequent DX11 issues are most likely an after effect and not the root cause.
Pocket Kings Posted May 7, 2021 Posted May 7, 2021 I looked at your logfiles again and the problem appears in regards to shaders. I never had to delete / repair the shaders. Did you attempt to reinitiate the shaders already?
SliderCDN Posted May 7, 2021 Author Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) 26 minutes ago, Pocket Kings said: Wait, what do you mean by DD11? Do you mean DX11? Your logfiles indicate that those files can't be read off of hard drive, as if the filesystem was corrupted or the files have been tampered with or a permissions violation. Subsequent DX11 issues are most likely an after effect and not the root cause. Yes, DX11. Only thing done was the DCS update. I've been in a middle of a campaign with friends when update came out, so no reason to change anything other than update. 21 minutes ago, Pocket Kings said: I looked at your logfiles again and the problem appears in regards to shaders. I never had to delete / repair the shaders. Did you attempt to reinitiate the shaders already? How do I reinitiate them? Delete? I've done that right away. Edited May 7, 2021 by SliderCDN
Pocket Kings Posted May 7, 2021 Posted May 7, 2021 Hmm, just a wild guess that popped into my mind: Did you upgrade from a Windows 7 install to Windows 10 or did you install Win 10 onto a blank hard drive?
SliderCDN Posted May 7, 2021 Author Posted May 7, 2021 6 minutes ago, Pocket Kings said: Hmm, just a wild guess that popped into my mind: Did you upgrade from a Windows 7 install to Windows 10 or did you install Win 10 onto a blank hard drive? Fresh clean from same day downloaded version (few weeks ago I did all that). Could you tell me how to reinitiate shaders, please? I want to make sure I'm not missing a step.
Pocket Kings Posted May 7, 2021 Posted May 7, 2021 I'm afraid I can't answer your question and be of any more help than the search function. I never had to perform that action, but I've seen people talk about it in this forum.
Flappie Posted May 7, 2021 Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) To clean all the shaders, get in each of these folders and remove their content: C:\Users\username\Saved Games\DCS...\fxo C:\Users\username\Saved Games\DCS...\metashaders2 C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA Corporation\NV_Cache (Windows will refuse to remove some files which are used by other apps - just click "Ignore" if it warns you) I believe there's also a shader location for DCS maps but I can't recall where it is. Edited May 7, 2021 by Flappie ---
SliderCDN Posted May 7, 2021 Author Posted May 7, 2021 7 minutes ago, Flappie said: To clean all the shaders, get in each of these folders and remove their content: C:\Users\username\Saved Games\DCS...\fxo C:\Users\username\Saved Games\DCS...\metashaders2 C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA Corporation\NV_Cache (Windows will refuse to remove some files which are used by other apps - just click "Ignore" if it warns you) I believe there's also a shader location for DCS maps but I can't recall where it is. I have done all 3 of the above, will report results. I've tried looking for map shaders, but no success.
pete_auau Posted May 8, 2021 Posted May 8, 2021 (edited) i believe its only the 2 that you already have done, dont think there is a map one since i unable to find it you havnt installed any vr shaders mods at all Since you had updated to the latest nvidia update did you have any issues with the previous version of the nividia driver you had installed if you didnt than just revert back to that version again since there was a issues with one of the latest version that was released awhile ago. if all that fails have you tried a clean install of dcs meaning getting rid of everything bits of dcs files on your pc etc Edited May 8, 2021 by pete_auau
SliderCDN Posted May 8, 2021 Author Posted May 8, 2021 dcs.log @Flappie No change. Crashed after 15 minutes or so without warning. 38 minutes ago, pete_auau said: i believe its only the 2 that you already have done, dont think there is a map one since i unable to find it you havnt installed any vr shaders mods at all Since you had updated to the latest nvidia update did you have any issues with the previous version of the nividia driver you had installed if you didnt than just revert back to that version again since there was a issues with one of the latest version that was released awhile ago. if all that fails have you tried a clean install of dcs meaning getting rid of everything bits of dcs files on your pc etc I'm sorry..what?
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