[solved] Crash on startup - LUA Error

[thornx]

Hi. I got a crash on startup on my ASUS ROG. Sometimes I got into the menue. When hitting agree or disagree on the popup asking for sharing data the game crashes. Most of the crashes are on the initial loading without showing any menue bar.

I tried:

• renaming DCS.openbeta
• removing all mods and skins
• slow repair
   
• NVIDIA drivers are up to date and reinstalled today
• no driver updates in Windows visible
• All WIndows updates installed

 

2022-04-01 19:15:58.255 INFO    EDCORE: try to write dump information
2022-04-01 19:15:58.259 INFO    EDCORE: # -------------- 20220401-191558 --------------
2022-04-01 19:15:58.261 INFO    EDCORE: DCS/2.7.11.22041 (x86_64; Windows NT 10.0.19044)
2022-04-01 19:15:58.264 INFO    EDCORE: C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvamig.inf_amd64_d155fe1b64617960\nvwgf2umx.dll
2022-04-01 19:15:58.267 INFO    EDCORE: # C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at F059FE72 00:00000000
2022-04-01 19:15:58.270 INFO    EDCORE: SymInit: Symbol-SearchPath: '.;d:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta;d:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\system32;SRV*C:\websymbols*https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols;', symOptions: 528, UserName: 'wg'
2022-04-01 19:15:58.273 INFO    EDCORE: OS-Version: 10.0.19044 () 0x300-0x1

 

dcs.log-20220401-191558.zip

Edited April 2, 2022 by thornx

[Flappie]

Hi. It looks like a Lua crash. Here's what follows your crash stack. It's just as you say: DCS crashes when you interact with the anonymous statistics window.

2022-04-01 19:15:58.914 INFO    Lua::Config: stack traceback:
	[C]: in function 'WidgetSetVisible'
	[string "./dxgui/bind/Widget.lua"]:69: in function 'setVisible'
	[string "./dxgui/bind/MsgWindow.lua"]:153: in function 'show'
	[string "./MissionEditor/modules/MainMenu.lua"]:87: in function 'anonymousStatistic'
	[string "./MissionEditor/modules/MainMenu.lua"]:299: in function 'show'
	[string "./MissionEditor/MissionEditor.lua"]:621: in function 'openReturnScreen'
	[string "./MissionEditor/MissionEditor.lua"]:704: in function <[string "./MissionEditor/MissionEditor.lua"]:698>

I'm not sure what's happening but there might be a workaround:

1. Open your "Saved Games/DCS.../MissionEditor/settings.lua" file.
2. Edit line 91 and change it to:

["permissionToCollectStatistics"] = true,

(true if you accept the statistics collection, false if you refuse)

Then save and run DCS. If it keeps crashing, please attach your newest crash zip.

[thornx]

10 hours ago, Flappie said:

1. Open your "Saved Games/DCS.../MissionEditor/settings.lua" file.
2. Edit line 91 and change it to:

["permissionToCollectStatistics"] = true,

(true if you accept the statistics collection, false if you refuse)

Then save and run DCS. If it keeps crashing, please attach your newest crash zip.

Thank you Flappie. That worked. 

[Flappie]

Great!

I'm not entirely sure it's the end of your problems though. If something else bad happens to your DCS, please report back here.