Nobody Special Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 Ever since the April patch I have been unable to play this mission without the game hanging and having to be forcibly terminated. Take off from the carrier, heading toward WP1. Climb on mil power at 15 degrees to 36,000 ft., then reduce throttle and cruise at approximately 220-240 kts. At approximately 20 miles from WP 1, the game will hang. The issue seems to occur when changing external views, or moving my head rapidly (using opentrack). This is 100% repeatable on my computer. Logs and mission file are attached; I cannot obtain a track. dcs.log test.miz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flappie Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 Hi. I cannot test your mission since it needs the CIvilian airplanes mod. Don't accept indie game testing requests from friends in Discord. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted May 21, 2022 Author Share Posted May 21, 2022 20 hours ago, Flappie said: Hi. I cannot test your mission since it needs the CIvilian airplanes mod. Sorry -- I removed the 2 airliners that I had added for traffic when I saved it to "test.miz" before posting, but I missed a fuel truck. Here is the same mission, with that truck removed. I tested this one and also got the hang. Possibly relevant, there is a trigger when you get to within ~ 20 miles of WP1, that tells the CAP there to RTB. test.miz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flappie Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 Thanks. I'm able to replicate your issue. While I was struggling with my Tomcat (I'm a RIO, not a pilot), I suddenly realized my flaps where down in F2 view. And then boom, eternal freeze. I was ~77 km away from WP2. My log ends like yours, except for the SOUND warning because I haven't waited long enough (the SOUND "slice" warnings come when DCS has a hard time with the CPU being too busy). 2022-05-21 08:25:55.215 INFO SCRIPTING: ******** AWACS did NOT detect any raid 2022-05-21 08:26:27.581 WARNING LOG: 4 duplicate message(s) skipped. 2022-05-21 08:26:27.581 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 0 0 squares 2022-05-21 08:26:27.581 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 1 0 squares 2022-05-21 08:26:27.581 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 2 0 squares 2022-05-21 08:26:27.582 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 3 72 squares 2022-05-21 08:26:27.582 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() 0.678300 ms 2022-05-21 08:26:47.201 INFO SCRIPTING: ******** AWACS did NOT detect any raid 2022-05-21 08:26:58.215 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 0 0 squares 2022-05-21 08:26:58.215 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 1 0 squares 2022-05-21 08:26:58.215 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 2 0 squares 2022-05-21 08:26:58.216 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 3 72 squares 2022-05-21 08:26:58.216 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() 0.662600 ms 2022-05-21 08:27:17.186 INFO SCRIPTING: ******** AWACS did NOT detect any raid 2022-05-21 08:27:25.179 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 0 0 squares 2022-05-21 08:27:25.179 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 1 0 squares 2022-05-21 08:27:25.179 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 2 0 squares 2022-05-21 08:27:25.179 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() LOD 3 71 squares 2022-05-21 08:27:25.179 INFO EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41: surface5 gc() 0.652400 ms Have you tried removing the trigger telling CAP to RTB? Do you own the Hornet? Someone else says his mission does not crash/freeze when replacing the Tomcat by a Hornet. That would be a good test. Don't accept indie game testing requests from friends in Discord. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunk1001 Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 (edited) Already tested the F18, and that works, only repeatable in the F14 (have just posted same on the Heatblur section). I am so happy others can replicate this ! And I wish I'd asked you guys before I spent £120 yesterday upgrading from 32GB to 64GB Ram to make no difference (other than to my wallet). I thought the Liberation Triggers might be the cause - but then why only the F14? (unless it's checking for that). Edit: Have removed all triggers and trigger zones from the mission. Still crashes in exactly the same way. Edited May 21, 2022 by Clunk1001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted May 21, 2022 Author Share Posted May 21, 2022 I just replaced the player flight with F-18s and tried it, game is again hung at 23 miles from WP1. This is not specific to the F-14. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted May 22, 2022 Author Share Posted May 22, 2022 Disabling the RTB trigger does not solve the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted June 9, 2022 Author Share Posted June 9, 2022 Issue still remains in open beta 2.7.15.25026. This is my favorite mission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmk80 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 On 5/22/2022 at 1:26 AM, Nobody Special said: I just replaced the player flight with F-18s and tried it, game is again hung at 23 miles from WP1. This is not specific to the F-14. I am sure it is. Try replacing all F-14 flights by other modules (player and AI). I bet you it won’t crash then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylosis Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 Please note that there are multiple recent threads pointing out to issues with the F-14. ED even replied to one noting they are aware something is wrong and are still unsure if it's really just the F-14 at fault. That being said, a lot of people seem to have DCS freeze when flying the F-14. Windows 10-64bits, i7-8700k, GTX 1080Ti, 32 Gb RAM, MSI Monitor 32in 165Hz. Mirage 2000C, F5-E, Mig21bis, A10-C, FC3, F-18, AV-8B N/A, F-14, F-16, SuperCarrier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inf Posted June 25, 2022 Share Posted June 25, 2022 On 5/20/2022 at 1:37 PM, Nobody Special said: The issue seems to occur when changing external views, or moving my head rapidly (using opentrack). This is 100% repeatable on my computer. I'm having a hang sometimes when I look around quickly too. Usually when I'm looking right to check on my wingman. In the F14, using TrackIR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted July 22, 2022 Author Share Posted July 22, 2022 Issue remains in 2.7.16.27869. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted September 10, 2022 Author Share Posted September 10, 2022 This issue is not fixed in 2.7.17.29493. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rokkett Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 (edited) I too can confirm game freeze/hang enroute to WP 1. Moreover, if I simply replace the F-14 AI flights with another AI aircraft (F/A-18C lot 20 in my case), then the mission plays out as intended (even if I'm flying the F-14). The game freeze definitely seems to be related to an issue with F-14 AI. Edited September 12, 2022 by Rokkett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pekki Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Still hanging. At around wp 1. Happens 100% to me. No setting changes have helped. Other planes and missions without F-14, no such crashes. F-14|F-18|F-86|AVS37|A-10CII|MIG21bis|AV-8B|P51|FC-3|CA|SC|Syria|PG Lot of DLC campaigns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted October 29, 2022 Author Share Posted October 29, 2022 (edited) Issue is still present in 2.8.0.32066, 100% repeatable. Edited October 29, 2022 by Nobody Special Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronMike Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 Can you please post your system specs and game settings? Also page file size please. We want to know as much as possible so we have a chance to reproduce it as close to your circumstances as possible. So far we had issues reproducing the freezes at all. Thank you! Heatblur Simulations Please feel free to contact me anytime, either via PM here, on the forums, or via email through the contact form on our homepage. http://www.heatblur.com/ https://www.facebook.com/heatblur/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted October 29, 2022 Author Share Posted October 29, 2022 (edited) AMD Ryzen 7 2700X on a Gigabyte X270 AORUS ultra gaming motherboard, Radeon RX5700 XT, 32 GB RAM. System runs stably. OS is Windows 10 (home) 21H1, build 19043.2130. Graphics driver version is 22.5.1. DCS options file is attached. These reflect that I run with Tacview, SRS and the A4 installed, but I found this issue reproducible with a renamed "Saved Games"/DCS.openbeta to run cleanly. I have not found any change to the graphics options that helps. Page file info: I'd be happy to provide additional information, let me know if you need anything more. options.lua Also -- originally I thought this might be related to changing views or head-tracking, but I no longer think so. The freeze happens even if I'm doing nothing in my cockpit. Edited October 29, 2022 by Nobody Special Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted October 29, 2022 Author Share Posted October 29, 2022 Changing the page file to 32000 fixed-size does not solve the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted November 19, 2022 Author Share Posted November 19, 2022 Issue is present in 2.8.33006. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Nobody Special Posted December 21, 2022 Author Solution Share Posted December 21, 2022 This appears to be fixed in 2.8.1.34437. I've played the mission twice with no issue. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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