BS Not Responding

[X32Wright]

HI,

 

I bought the English copy of BS online. It installed and activated okay but Whenever I try to do a REPLAY, or TRAINING or INSTANT ACTION the program freezes after LOADING TERRAIN or Initializing EFFECTS.

 

Vista just reports DCS has Stopped Responding and it will go back to the game menu as if it loaded a TRAINING or TRACK already when in fact it did not.

 

I have looked at the threads on here and they did not help me much. The program is isntalled on the default (program X86) folder. Installing it on its own folder also did not work. I also tried the WinXP compatibility mode and that also did not work as well as 'Run as Administrator'.

 

I tried WINDOWED and FULL SCREEN mode with various resolutions from 1024x768 to 1280x1024 and it still crashes. I don't see any reference to this application in Events Viewer at all either.

 

No crash log in the TMP folder either. I also tried to delete everything in the TMP folder and run the application again with same results. The Error log shows nothing much.

 

I am running on Vista X64 Home Premium on an HP m9300t (Intel Quad Core) with 4GB and 8600GT.

 

PS: Direct-X and OpenGl libraries works because I can run Il-2 1946.

Edited December 30, 2008 by X32Wright

[X32Wright]

SO nobody has any idea why I am having this problem even DCS itself?

 

Tried reinstalling video card driver and trying the new one, no go

 

Reinstalled sor no go

 

Removed --console line on the application target link, no go

 

Tried to change resolutions and full and windowed mode, no go.

 

tried to change Processor Affinity to 1,2,3 and 4 processors with the DCS.exe and still would just have a NO RESPONSE indication from Vista the the DCS application is terminated automatically. Yes I do watch the DCS.exe process in the Task Manager.

Edited January 1, 2009 by X32Wright

[X32Wright]

This is what i see after the launcher launches DCS.exe and stops at 'Please Wait'....

[stevie52]

Hi X32Wright,

 

do you get any information from the eventviewer from vista? Does it mention anything about the lock up?

 

stevie

[X32Wright]

Log Name: Application

Source: Application Error

Date: 1/2/2009 6:02:41 PM

Event ID: 1000

Task Category: (100)

Level: Error

Keywords: Classic

User: N/A

Computer: Rnld-PC

Description:

Faulting application dcs.exe, version 1.0.0.0, time stamp 0x493d3989, faulting module NPClient.dll, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x2a425e19, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x0005b58f, process id 0x1008, application start time 0x01c96d2e163c46b0.

Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

<System>

<Provider Name="Application Error" />

<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>

<Level>2</Level>

<Task>100</Task>

<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-01-02T23:02:41.000Z" />

<EventRecordID>28412</EventRecordID>

<Channel>Application</Channel>

<Computer>Rnld-PC</Computer>

<Security />

</System>

<EventData>

<Data>dcs.exe</Data>

<Data>1.0.0.0</Data>

<Data>493d3989</Data>

<Data>NPClient.dll</Data>

<Data>0.0.0.0</Data>

<Data>2a425e19</Data>

<Data>c0000005</Data>

<Data>0005b58f</Data>

<Data>1008</Data>

<Data>01c96d2e163c46b0</Data>

</EventData>

</Event>

 

Okay got those error log in the event viewer just today. NPClient.dll is Windows Defender (I think but could also be Natural Point's dll for TRACK IR? Which I don't have) but I don't have that running. Hmm does anybody have any idea on how to remove this .dll?

Edited January 3, 2009 by X32Wright

[X32Wright]

Error log contents:

 

Error running Config/autoexec.cfg: cannot open Config/autoexec.cfg: No such file or directory

1/2/2009 21:47 V808201900

World::LoadPlugins: Loaded plugin module CockpitBase.dll

Dispatcher: initial random seed = 848860

Dispatcher: reading track, last event at 685.007000

Dispatcher: read seed = 918937

Dispatcher: read version = 808201900

Dispatcher: apply random seed = 918937

Cosmos: Mission date assigned - Year:2009, Month:6, Day:1

loaded from mission Scripts/World/GPS_GNSS.lua

Map objects for beacon site Потийский NOT FOUND! Ojbects created.

Map objects for inactive beacon site Мыс Сухумский NOT FOUND! Ojbects created.

Map objects for inactive beacon site Мыс Тарханкутский NOT FOUND! Ojbects created.

Map objects for inactive beacon site Мыс Железный Рог NOT FOUND! Ojbects created.

Map objects for beacon site Мыс Херсонесский NOT FOUND! Ojbects created.

Map objects for inactive beacon site Мыс Анапский NOT FOUND! Ojbects created.

Map objects for inactive beacon site Мыс Айтодорский NOT FOUND! Ojbects created.

Map objects for beacon site Батумский NOT FOUND! Ojbects created.

Map objects for beacon site Мыс Фонарь NOT FOUND! Ojbects created.

Map objects for beacon site Мыс Евпаторийский NOT FOUND! Ojbects created.

Map objects for beacon site Ялта NOT FOUND! Ojbects created.

Map objects for inactive beacon site Мыс Кыз-Аул NOT FOUND! Ojbects created.

Map objects for inactive beacon site Мыс Кодошский NOT FOUND! Ojbects created.

ComplexTask::open_state(). Precached tasks data loading.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Follow_Line" task data loaded.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Follow_Vector" task data loaded.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Follow_Vector_Old" task data loaded.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Approach" task data loaded.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Cannon_Ground_Attack" task data loaded.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Rocket_Attack" task data loaded.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Level_Bombing" task data loaded.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Dive_Bombing" task data loaded.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Missile_Ground_Target_Attack" task data loaded.

ComplexTask::load_task_data(). "Missile_Ground_Target_Level_Attack" task data loaded.

WARNING: multiple connectors "smoke" in model ".\Bazar\Terrain\Structures\High\TEC_A.lom"

[X32Wright]

Okay I reinstalled BS again and I have a new situation:

 

It is now ASKING for a Disk in E: while this BS was an online puchase!

 

I did not see an activation window this time while two previous installs I did.

 

update: Re-activated it again and re-installed the application twice now and the same, Insert disk into E Drive:. The NPClient.dll error is now gone.

Edited January 3, 2009 by X32Wright

[X32Wright]

Ok I downloaded BS again last night and uninstalled the old one and reinstalled it using the 'new' downloaded files thinking maybe my original download was damaged or corrupted.

 

I got the same problems, like the original with NPCLient.dll again. So I give up! I dont know what else to do. It makes me wonder if this applictaion was ever 'heavily' beta-tested in x64 bit environment before any 'release candidate' was done!

[TheMoose]

Okay I reinstalled BS again and I have a new situation:

 

It is now ASKING for a Disk in E: while this BS was an online puchase!

 

I did not see an activation window this time while two previous installs I did.

 

update: Re-activated it again and re-installed the application twice now and the same, Insert disk into E Drive:. The NPClient.dll error is now gone.

 

 

I had that error as well for the insert CD thing. Happend once. You should attach your crash files.... Quoting Groove on http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=34768

 

Regards,

[X32Wright]

Okay a solved my problem! A friend of mine indicated that NPClient.dll is a .dll used by Freetrack and i was wonderign why I have this .dll sicne I did not install Freetrack. On a Google search I noticed that NewView also uses the same .dll.

 

So I uninstalled NewView and removed all references to it in the Registry and BS now works!!! I do hope that this would help somebody else.