Freeze in P-47D Bomber Escort Mission on Caucasus

[Worrazen]

DCS frozen later in the mission when lots of bombers were having casualties, I saw a lot of parachute icons on the F-10 map, moments prior to performance dipping hugely, it was about 7 FPS.

 

I was chasing a stray A8, not viewing the bomber action and I wasn't sure if they were dropping bombs or not yet. I went in and out of F-10 map just viewing myself and clicking on my icon. Out to F2/F1 view again, back into F10. That's when it froze.

 

The "main"  DCS.exe thread is fully occupying the CPU (one CPU core ofcourse, out of 6+6), no other threads show any meaningful usage, only a few have a tiny bit.

 

EDIT: I've given it 30 minutes, and calling it a freeze, in practice.

 

Process Hacker reports DCS.exe! thread stack with the following being almost constant:

 

Effects2.dll!Effects::releaseParticleSetCB+0x65929
Effects.dll!Effects::GraphicEffect_Impl::undock+0x17175
Effects2.dll!Effects::OPSManager::updatePSystems+0x4d
Effects2.dll!Effects::OPSManager::update+0x34
Visualizer.dll!smSceneManager::regLua+0x4774
Visualizer.dll!smSceneManager::CreateSceneManager+0x5886
DCS.exe!SW+0x4f9fd0
DCS.exe!SW+0x50fafb
DCS.exe!SW+0x4e0974
DCS.exe!SW+0x4e0d4d
DCS.exe!AmdPowerXpressRequestHighPerformance+0xe70773
DCS.exe!SW+0x717bbe
kernel32.dll!BaseThreadInitThunk+0x14
ntdll.dll!RtlUserThreadStart+0x21

 

 

The only thing that keeps changing is the first line.

 

Effects2.dll!Effects::releaseParticleSetCB+0x65909

Effects2.dll!Effects::releaseParticleSetCB+0x65878

Effects2.dll!Effects::releaseParticleSetCB+0x65838

Effects2.dll!Effects::releaseParticleSetCB+0x658f8

Effects2.dll!Effects::releaseParticleSetCB+0x65915

Effects2.dll!Effects::releaseParticleSetCB+0x65970

Effects2.dll!Effects::releaseParticleSetCB+0x65929

Effects2.dll!Effects::releaseParticleSetCB+0x6593d

Effects2.dll!Effects::releaseParticleSetCB+0x65915

Effects2.dll!Effects::releaseParticleSetCB+0x65921

Effects2.dll!Effects::releaseParticleSetCB+0x658b8

 

The numbers seem to be limited to a set and are repeating.

 

DxDiag_Worrazen_ASUS_Strix-X570EG_09-07-21.zip

Edited July 9, 2021 by Worrazen