Volator Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 I've been playing a lot of Combined Arms on the F10 map lately. Over the last two weeks a new sort of DCS crash has ocurred to me that I haven't seen before: From the F10 map, when I select a ground unit and switch to external view, the screen suddenly goes black and my GPU cooler instantly revs up to maximum RPM. I cannot exit the game at that point anymore, open up Task manager or anything. Only a hard system master reset works for a full reboot of the system. GPU is RTX 2070, latest driver installed. dcs.log 1 1./JG71 "Richthofen" - Seven Eleven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volator Posted June 5, 2021 Author Share Posted June 5, 2021 ... and now, after experiencing the same bug and hard-resetting the system, the same bug appeared during start-up of DCS for the very first time. Didn't even get to the main menue. dcs.log 1 1./JG71 "Richthofen" - Seven Eleven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flappie Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 DX device removed. Reason: 0x887A0006 DCS is having an issue with your graphics card. Do you overclock/underclok/undervolt your GPU? If so, please take a look at this thread: Don't accept indie game testing requests from friends in Discord. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volator Posted June 5, 2021 Author Share Posted June 5, 2021 (edited) 30 minutes ago, Flappie said: Do you overclock/underclok/undervolt your GPU? No, nothing of that... This type of crash has only ocurred recently. Before 2.7 I never had any DCS crashes... Edited June 5, 2021 by Pilot Ike 1./JG71 "Richthofen" - Seven Eleven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flappie Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 OK. Try this, then: Don't accept indie game testing requests from friends in Discord. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volator Posted June 5, 2021 Author Share Posted June 5, 2021 (edited) 37 minutes ago, Flappie said: OK. Try this, then: Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, it hasn't solved the problem. However, there was a small but noticable difference: When changing from F10 into F1 view, the game crash / black screen didn't happen instantly, but about 10 seconds later. I've also just vacuumed the computer just to make sure it's not a dust problem... Edited June 5, 2021 by Pilot Ike 1./JG71 "Richthofen" - Seven Eleven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flappie Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 (edited) OK. The value I made you change is a timeout preventing DirectX to complain about the GPU being unavailable for a certain delay. I assume 10 seconds would have been enough for your computer to get a hold on the graphcis card and ask it to draw the F1 view. The issue is somewhere else, then. Please try disabling SSLR. It worked for a user who kept having DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED crashes. Edited June 5, 2021 by Flappie typo Don't accept indie game testing requests from friends in Discord. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volator Posted June 6, 2021 Author Share Posted June 6, 2021 @Flappie I had two more crashes of this kind after my last post, but today DCS has been running ever so stable. No black screens, no F10 zoom crash... It must have done something... 1./JG71 "Richthofen" - Seven Eleven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flappie Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 What do you think helped? Changing TdrDelay values or disabling SSLR? Don't accept indie game testing requests from friends in Discord. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volator Posted June 7, 2021 Author Share Posted June 7, 2021 (edited) The former, I never used SSLR, not to my knowledge Edited June 7, 2021 by Pilot Ike 1./JG71 "Richthofen" - Seven Eleven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flappie Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 OK. I hope your DCS will stay that way now. Please let us know whenever the issue comes back. Don't accept indie game testing requests from friends in Discord. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volator Posted June 8, 2021 Author Share Posted June 8, 2021 On 6/7/2021 at 1:30 PM, Flappie said: Please let us know whenever the issue comes back. Unfortunately it is back. I had two days of perfect stability, DCS running for hours, but today, after about 25 minutes, the black screen reappeared, switching from F10 to F1 view. Again, the crash was not instant but happened after about 2 seconds in F1 view. 1./JG71 "Richthofen" - Seven Eleven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volator Posted June 8, 2021 Author Share Posted June 8, 2021 ... and now the second black screen full system lockup after just 5 minutes... 1./JG71 "Richthofen" - Seven Eleven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volator Posted June 30, 2021 Author Share Posted June 30, 2021 So after not having experienced this bug in the last three weeks, now with the latest update it's back. I just admired the new Mariannas map in ME when the bug struck again. dcs.log 1./JG71 "Richthofen" - Seven Eleven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flappie Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 Your log ends like this: 2021-06-30 17:31:12.431 INFO LUA-GUI_MAP: levelformap=0 2021-06-30 17:31:29.785 INFO LUA-GUI_MAP: levelformap=1 2021-06-30 17:31:34.978 INFO LUA-GUI_MAP: levelformap=0 2021-06-30 17:32:53.357 ERROR SOUND: bufferEvent has timed out. Were you adding sound files to your mission? Don't accept indie game testing requests from friends in Discord. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volator Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 (edited) 20 hours ago, Flappie said: Your log ends like this: 2021-06-30 17:31:12.431 INFO LUA-GUI_MAP: levelformap=0 2021-06-30 17:31:29.785 INFO LUA-GUI_MAP: levelformap=1 2021-06-30 17:31:34.978 INFO LUA-GUI_MAP: levelformap=0 2021-06-30 17:32:53.357 ERROR SOUND: bufferEvent has timed out. Were you adding sound files to your mission? No, nothing. Just checking Mariannas in ME. Another crash just now, old style: Switching from F10 map to vehicle external view (F7), insta crash, black screen, system totally locked up and only resetable via hard reset. I haven't had these crashes with another modern flight sim with extensive satellite imagery that is also very taxing on the GPU so far. It only happens with DCS, so I assume it's something in the code. Edit: Sorry, I take that back. I just had this particular crash just starting Discord for the very first time now. So it's definitely not DCS, but probably something with the GPU. Investigating. dcs.log Edited July 1, 2021 by Pilot Ike 1./JG71 "Richthofen" - Seven Eleven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volator Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 Looks like this is a problem other users also experience with Nvidia GPUs... damn it... 1./JG71 "Richthofen" - Seven Eleven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flappie Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 Solved by replacing PSU: Don't accept indie game testing requests from friends in Discord. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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