2.7 freezing and crashing

[EdtheBASS]

Hi,

 

Before I updated to 2.7 I had never had any problems but now I have had a few issues of DCS freezing while in SP mode flying the F18. This happens after about 10-20 mins of gameplay. No stuttering or problems beforehand. I then have to restart the PC.

 

I have been using these forums for a while and have done just about every possible fix, recommendation here but to no avail. The last fix was a pagefile and power profile recommendation and this was followed by a crash with windows telling me it was POWER_MANAGEMENT.

 

I did get a zipped crash file which I will add here

 

thank you and any suggestions?

 

I have no add ons and have done steam verify

 

EDIT- tried a few more tweaks but crashed to desktop. File attached if any help

 

Many thanks.

 

PS I am 52 so by defination am a bit slow on the computer side. It's pretty new with the GTX 3060 and an running DCS on an SSD

dcs.log-20210815-114011.zip dcs.20210815-114011.crash

dcs.20210815-121013.crash

Edited August 15, 2021 by EdtheBASS
Added file

[Riorion]

Looks just like my reports today, DX device removed. Reason: 0x887A0006 (plus ~100 duplicate messages, mine had ~1200 duplicates in one instance lol).  Initial testing after disabling hot plug seems to yield positive results, in your control options on the bottom right there's a button to disable it.  I went from crashing within 2 minutes of mission start to actually flying for about 20 minutes now. 

 

Edit: disabling hot plug definitely helped in my case, though I'm still getting the same error just not as frequently.  Maybe once every 30ish minutes.  All I can find is from several months ago suggesting to disable this or that graphics setting but it seems like a fairly common issue with several causes.

dcs.20210815-235857.log

Edited August 16, 2021 by Riorion

[EdtheBASS]

Thanks, i'll give that a go

 

Ed

 

EDIT - I have applied the fix you recommended above and I am still playing...no crashes. It did freeze for about 10 secs about 10 mins in but then continued to play and I haven't had any more issues since. I'll continue to monitor and report back if there are any changes

 

Thanks again

 

Ed

Edited August 16, 2021 by EdtheBASS

[BIGNEWY]

thanks for letting us know

[Riorion]

9 hours ago, EdtheBASS said:

I have applied the fix you recommended above and I am still playing...no crashes.

 

Great to hear, glad it helped.  The other half of the issue on my end was my GPU overclock, resetting to factory defaults in afterburner since has lead to no more crashes, flying around in multiple missions for 2+ hours and even smoothed out my framerate.  May be something to consider if you're using any overclocking.  (also solved my MS Flight Sim 2020 crashes as well, wonder why flight sims are the only games I have installed that don't like it )

[overkillke2]

Hi!

 

I have a problem when I play in VR. The screen freezes after 10-20 minutes but I still have game sound. I played mainly with the F18, I have not tested with another device. I don't think it will change anything because I also have this problem in the game menus. All my drivers are up to date and I have already tried reinstalling the game but it doesn't change anything. Can you help me? Thank you

 

 

 

 

 

dcs.20210814-152434.crash

[BIGNEWY]

1 minute ago, overkillke2 said:

Hi!

 

I have a problem when I play in VR. The screen freezes after 10-20 minutes but I still have game sound. I played mainly with the F18, I have not tested with another device. I don't think it will change anything because I also have this problem in the game menus. All my drivers are up to date and I have already tried reinstalling the game but it doesn't change anything. Can you help me? Thank you

 

 

 

 

 

dcs.20210814-152434.crash 1.45 kB · 0 downloads

 

Hi, can you attach the dcs.log also, or the whole zip folder that is created when you have the crash. 

 

[overkillke2]

2 hours ago, BIGNEWY said:

 

Hi, can you attach the dcs.log also, or the whole zip folder that is created when you have the crash. 

 

I have nothing more than that, is that enough for you? Thanks

 

dcs.log.old

[BIGNEWY]

Thanks

 

are you running any user mods or unofficial edits?

 

Please rename your dcs folder in saved games 

 

C:\Users\yourname\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta to C:\Users\yourname\Saved Games\DCS.openbetabackup

 

this will make the folder a backup, then run a slow repair on dcs 

 

restart and dcs will create a new saved games dcs folder.

 

login and test. 

 

thanks

[overkillke2]

49 minutes ago, BIGNEWY said:

Thanks

 

are you running any user mods or unofficial edits?

 

Please rename your dcs folder in saved games 

 

C:\Users\yourname\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta to C:\Users\yourname\Saved Games\DCS.openbetabackup

 

this will make the folder a backup, then run a slow repair on dcs 

 

restart and dcs will create a new saved games dcs folder.

 

login and test. 

 

thanks

I do not use any mod

I don't use any mod. I did what you told me, I will test this Thanks

[overkillke2]

Hi

I still have the same problem. The screen goes black but I still have game sound

dcs.log.old dcs.20210819-162130.crash

Edited August 19, 2021 by overkillke2

[overkillke2]

dcs.log-20210820-135234.zip

[Flappie]

Hi, I cannot open your zip file. Can you?

 

So far, i don't see what causes your crashes. The .crash file is most often not enough to understand what triggers DCS crashes. The full dcs.log is the most useful file. It lies inside that zip file, but I cannot open it.

 

Next time you have a crash, please attach the dcs.log file alone (not dcs.log.old, which is the log of your previous game session).

Edited August 21, 2021 by Flappie

[overkillke2]

1 hour ago, Flappie said:

Hi, I cannot open your zip file. Can you?

 

So far, i don't see what causes your crashes. The .crash file is most often not enough to understand what triggers DCS crashes. The full dcs.log is the most useful file. It lies inside that zip file, but I cannot open it.

 

Next time you have a crash, please attach the dcs.log file alone (not dcs.log.old, which is the log of your previous game session).

 

Hi Flappie

I hope that the problem does not come from my graphics card because now is not the time ...

Thanks

dcs.20210821-095452.log

Edited August 21, 2021 by overkillke2

[Flappie]

You're having the DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED crashes:

 

2021-08-21 09:54:26.051 INFO    EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41:     surface5 gc() LOD 2 23 squares
2021-08-21 09:54:26.051 INFO    EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41:     surface5 gc() LOD 3 58 squares
2021-08-21 09:54:26.051 INFO    EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() 1.038400 ms
2021-08-21 09:54:51.505 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: DX device removed. Reason: 0x887A0006
2021-08-21 09:54:51.509 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: failed to create structed buffer. Reason: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED
2021-08-21 09:54:51.509 ERROR   DX11BACKEND: CreateShaderResourceView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2021-08-21 09:54:51.510 INFO    EDCORE: try to write dump information
2021-08-21 09:54:51.511 INFO    EDCORE: # -------------- 20210821-095452 --------------
2021-08-21 09:54:51.515 INFO    EDCORE: DCS/2.7.5.10869 (x86_64; Windows NT 10.0.19043)
2021-08-21 09:54:51.518 INFO    EDCORE: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\d3d11.dll
2021-08-21 09:54:51.523 INFO    EDCORE: # C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at C82398A0 00:00000000
2021-08-21 09:54:51.525 INFO    EDCORE: SymInit: Symbol-SearchPath: '.', symOptions: 532, UserName: 'Biscotte'
2021-08-21 09:54:51.529 INFO    EDCORE: OS-Version: 10.0.19043 () 0x300-0x1
2021-08-21 09:54:51.577 INFO    EDCORE: 0x00000000001298A0 (d3d11): CreateDirect3D11SurfaceFromDXGISurface + 0x10310
2021-08-21 09:54:51.580 INFO    EDCORE: 0x000000000002FBDB (dx11backend): createRenderer + 0x17C3B
2021-08-21 09:54:51.584 INFO    EDCORE: 0x000000000007A1C3 (edterrainGraphics41): edtg41::TerrainRenderable::dumpRenderItem + 0x69673
2021-08-21 09:54:51.584 INFO    EDCORE: 0x00000000000CF670 (edterrainGraphics41): createInstancerRenderable + 0x37430
2021-08-21 09:54:51.585 INFO    EDCORE: 0x00000000000CB078 (edterrainGraphics41): createInstancerRenderable + 0x32E38
2021-08-21 09:54:51.586 INFO    EDCORE: 0x00000000000CC2F0 (edterrainGraphics41): createInstancerRenderable + 0x340B0
2021-08-21 09:54:51.586 INFO    EDCORE: 0x00000000000D8198 (edCore): ed::this_thread::yield + 0x318
2021-08-21 09:54:51.586 INFO    EDCORE: 0x00000000000CF56A (edCore): ed::make_main_thread_tasks + 0x1A
2021-08-21 09:54:51.586 INFO    EDCORE: 0x0000000000802320 (DCS): SW + 0x5117F0
2021-08-21 09:54:51.587 INFO    EDCORE: 0x00000000007D3194 (DCS): SW + 0x4E2664
2021-08-21 09:54:51.588 INFO    EDCORE: 0x00000000007D356D (DCS): SW + 0x4E2A3D
2021-08-21 09:54:51.589 INFO    EDCORE: 0x0000000000070D3E (dxgui): gui::ModalWindow::doModal_ + 0x4E
2021-08-21 09:54:51.590 INFO    EDCORE: 0x0000000000007869 (dxgui_win_adapter): gui::ApplicationWin::updateWindowFocusWarning + 0xD9
2021-08-21 09:54:51.590 INFO    EDCORE: 0x00000000007D3601 (DCS): SW + 0x4E2AD1
2021-08-21 09:54:51.591 INFO    EDCORE: 0x0000000001C7332F (DCS): AmdPowerXpressRequestHighPerformance + 0xE7D32B
2021-08-21 09:54:51.592 INFO    EDCORE: 0x0000000000A0B23E (DCS): SW + 0x71A70E
2021-08-21 09:54:51.594 INFO    EDCORE: 0x0000000000017034 (KERNEL32): BaseThreadInitThunk + 0x14
2021-08-21 09:54:51.596 INFO    EDCORE: 0x0000000000052651 (ntdll): RtlUserThreadStart + 0x21
2021-08-21 09:54:53.590 INFO    EDCORE: Minidump created.

 

 

This error can be caused by a variety of things. Most often, it's about:

• GPU / CPU / RAM over locking or undervolting
• Dust on the CPU
• Faulty PSU

[overkillke2]

What do you advise me to do?

I did the test without VR and the game crashes too. I did some tests with OCCT but it doesn't detect anything, I don't understand ...

Edited August 21, 2021 by overkillke2

[Flappie]

Do you overclock? If so, try to lower the frequency of your GPU or RAM (depends on what you overclocked).

 

If you don't overclock, take a look at your CPU rad: is it clogged with dust?

 

Testing the PSU is more complicated. If you have access to another one, you can check if crashed keep on coming with it or not.