solved Hangs on MP Mariana Islands server

[FlyingKah]

Dear Brains trust,

Can you help me solve my DCS loading problem. Until 2 weeks ago I was flying in MP Mariana Map in VR and on screen without a problem. But the weekend came and I couldn’t load into it. I was able to connect to the server, select a plane but after that it hangs. In the log file, the last thing it says is loading the arc210 radios. I have restarted it many times and each time I check the log file this is the last thing it says. It’s the same in other Syria servers or other Mariana servers. I can fly in the Caucasus servers and have no problem with any maps in single player.

I have removed mods and cleaned and repaired DCS and tried all again with no mods.

I checked SRS and have reloaded it. It works fine in a Caucasus map server then when I connect to a Mariana map server, the game icon doesn’t connect.  It works fine in Single Player.

I tried going to settings and switched the Mariana module off, restarted DCS and switched it back on. It loads into the jet and works as it should. I then restarted the computer to load the VR HMD and but it was the same problem, the game hangs after selecting the plane and pressing briefing and fly. 

I uninstalled Mariana module, and reinstalled it. Still didn't work. Removed the fxo and metashaders2 folder and restarted DCS. Still didn't work.  Tried switching the module off, restart DCS and switching the module on again and it worked again!  Restarted the computer to make sure, and it didn't hung again.
 

Computer is 27" 5K iMac  
i5 3GHz 
32Gb RAM 
VR: Samsung Odyssey +
Running Windows 10 on external NVME SSD, partitioned c drive with 23 GB free, and DCS and savegames on d drive with 278Gb free.

Before pagefile was on c drive but since this problem I have changed Page file to d drive with 1-32Gb. no pagefile on c drive.
Drivers are current. 
DCS is current. Everything is set to low or off. Preload radius is minimum (100)

I can still play SP and MP Caucusus and  Persian Gulf map. It's in the Mariana and Syria map that I can't get it to load the jet.
Before I try reinstalling DCS, does anyone have any other ideas?

dcs.log

Edited June 26, 2022 by FlyingKah

[Flappie]

Hello, DCS only detects a 1 GB pagefile. Try to boost the pagefile initial size (try 16384, and then 32768 if that's not enough).

By the way, your dcs.log file does not show Marianas loading.

Edited June 26, 2022 by Flappie

[FlyingKah]

Changed the page file as you said. Still hangs as before
So Marianas doesn't even load before getting hanged.

 

Edited June 26, 2022 by FlyingKah

[Flappie]

Please attach the dcs.log file showing DCS hanging.

[FlyingKah]

What I attached in the first post is it.
I just tried connecting to a server with Nevada map and it hangs as well. Here's the log generated. 

is there another log file to get?

dcs.log

[Flappie]

Thanks. The last lines are about SRS and VoiceChat. I suggest hat you disable the one that you don't use. Since VoiceChat ("WebRTC") is the last one you can read about in your log, I think you should disable it first (in the Audio options).

[FlyingKah]

The voicechat has always been unticked.

[FlyingKah]

The voicechat has always been unticked. Tried with SRS off.  Still hangs. 

[Flappie]

Just for kicks, delete all "DCS..." folder you can find in your "C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\Temp\" folder.

[FlyingKah]

Did this, and after 7 minutes, I was in a cockpit.  I included the dcs.log.old and there was a error in the kneeboard mission file.  Can I delete this?

I restarted the computer and 8 minutes later, I was in a cockpit and I included the dcs.log file.  It was stuck at 
2022-06-26 23:22:52.432 WARNING FLIGHT: carrier technician [1: green_nw] created, id 11
for a long time, then a minute later, I was in the cockpit.

Thanks Flappie. An improvement, but is there anything I can do to reduce this very long load time?

[Flappie]

Good to hear!

Please reproduce the very long loading time, then exit DCS and attach the resulting dcs.log file.

[FlyingKah]

Oops, I thought I did

Here they are.

dcs.log.old  after a 7min wait, it loaded

dcs log after the 8min wait, it loaded.

 

dcs.log dcs.log.old

[FlyingKah]

The log file said some error with a kneedboard lua file. I moved it out of the folder and now it takes 10sec to load into a jet after selection! Restarted the computer to check it wasn't a fluke. Same for VR.   The lua file has something to do with Kneeboard builder.  The builder still works without that lua file in the folder.  So I'm baaaackk.  Thanks for your efforts Flappie.

[Flappie]

Excellent!

I assume you were talking about this message:

2022-06-26 23:10:21.785 ERROR   Lua::Config: load error E:\Games\DCS.openbeta\KNEEBOARD/001-missionbriefing-001.lua:table overflow.

Thanks for your precious feedback.

[FlyingKah]

yes. that one.