Sr. Posted June 12, 2021 Posted June 12, 2021 Lately I've been fighting multiple issues attempting a DCS cleanup/repair install. The repair would run for hours only to fail with an error "Inflate (-3) incorrect data check". Contacted support and they advised it was my Antivirus...ok, but I already had the usual folders excluded, and several other attempts I had real time & cloud protection disabled. Still no joy. Eventually, I decided maybe it was time for a wipe/reload, windows, DCS, the works. Backed up my saved games and DCS install folder. Spent all of last night and into this morning doing a fresh install of DCS open beta. Rather than re-download my modules, I restored them from my previous backed up installation. Opened the game, everything seems to be there... except the textures in Caucuses are jacked up... bright magenta, pink & green pixels on most buildings... SO... once again, I run a repair install. Once it completes it reports that everything I had moved over from backup aren't "part of the vanilla install" and removes them. Is this going to be the behavior any time I need to do a simple "file integrity check?" I am logged in at start up. How does the game engine not know which modules I am "allowed" to have installed? Ryzen 7 5800X3D | 64GB DDR4 3600| MSI RTX 4080 16GB Ventus 3X OC | Samsung 970 Evo 2TB NVME | Quest 3 | Logitech X-56 throttle | VKB NXT Premium | Win 11 "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." --Arthur C Clark
Art-J Posted June 12, 2021 Posted June 12, 2021 What does the in-game module manager say? Are these modules you just copied over marked as installed and enabled? i7 9700K @ stock speed, single GTX1070, 32 gigs of RAM, TH Warthog, MFG Crosswind, Win10.
Sr. Posted June 12, 2021 Author Posted June 12, 2021 Just now, Art-J said: What does the in-game module manager say? Are these modules you just copied over marked as installed and enabled? At first launch they were not "listed" in the game menu. But under the module manager, they were listed as "let's install some modules" or something to that effect. At that point I exited, and copied them over from backup, restarted DCS and they were listed where expected, and under module manager the were now shown as installed. The only thing appearing to be "broken" was the Caucuses map. Which prompted the repair install. The repair install then removed (moved to backup) everything I had restored from backup. Ryzen 7 5800X3D | 64GB DDR4 3600| MSI RTX 4080 16GB Ventus 3X OC | Samsung 970 Evo 2TB NVME | Quest 3 | Logitech X-56 throttle | VKB NXT Premium | Win 11 "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." --Arthur C Clark
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