DCS consistent crash. mods, no mods, scripted and unscripted missions

[dmatsch]

title says it all.  submitted support ticket

dcs.log-20230127-183735.zip

[Flappie]

Hi. You're having the dreadful "DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED" kind of crash. It means the sim "loses" all contact with the GPU, which causes it to stop. This error can have various origins. Sometimes, it means the GPU is dying, but let us be optimistic.

I'll make a list of things that helped users. Feel free to try them out.

• Rename your "Saved Games\DCS" to DCS.backup (do NOT delete it).
• If you have an internal GPU on your motherboard, disable it in BIOS.
• Disable RAM XMP profile in BIOS.
• Disable Aorus Graphics Engine autoscanning (auto OC).
• Disable Corsair iCue.
• Disable Asus GPU Tweak.
• Remove GPU overclocking.
• Set Windows power plan to "High performance" then turn everything to 100%.
• Removed dust from CPU coooler
• Try another PSU if you have one nearby.
• Disable SSLR.

Edited January 28, 2023 by Flappie

[dmatsch]

I'm not so sure this is the case.  I've run several different stress tests (3dmark, passmark, and one other that escapes mind) with no issues.  Other AAA games work fine for extended periods.

I'm not convinced that this is not isolated to DCS.  

[dmatsch]

BTW:  I had a mission where I removed ALL client and player aircraft and just let it run.

It ran fine.  But as soon as I set one of the aircraft to "player" or "client", then about 5-10 minutes into flying...freeze then crash.

Other AAA games with extensive hardware requirements run fine.

 

Edited February 2, 2023 by dmatsch

[dmatsch]

here is a stress test on my CPU.  RTX2080Ti.  No problems.

10 minutes into a small mission in DCS -- crash.

_kombustor_log.txt

[dmatsch]

spent two hours on MSFS2020 yesterday with no issues. 

10 minutes into DCS, crash.

[HoMeBoY]

@dmatsch The device removed error in my experience is caused by the Nvidia driver being loaded with test or debug settings enabled and it tries to assert or crash instead of just ignoring when the GPU takes some long calculation and it hangs. When it loses contact with the GPU is because it crashes thinking you got stuck 

You can fix it or try fixing it by changing the TDR level in you registry. Here a couple of links 

https://youtu.be/C8-EgUcrwOs

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/127945/tdr-fix-here-for-nvidia-driver-crashing-randomly-i/

 

https://docs.nvidia.com/gameworks/content/developertools/desktop/timeout_detection_recovery.htm

 

https://manual.notch.one/0.9.23/en/docs/faq/extending-gpu-timeout-detection/

 

 

 

 

[dmatsch]

ok.  Thank you. I'll give it a shot.

However, yesterday I spent about 2 hours with another flight sim with no problems.  This has GOT to be isolated to DCS

Edited February 6, 2023 by dmatsch

[Baldrick33]

6 minutes ago, dmatsch said:

ok.  Thank you. I'll give it a shot.

However, yesterday I spent about 2 hours with another flight sim with no problems.  This has GOT to be isolated to DCS

 

I had a similar problem with a well know race sim. It was the only thing that would crash my PC and the logs showed an nvidia driver issue. I was convinced it was the sim but it wasn't a problem experienced by others. Eventually I accepted it was my PC - the race sim was just the trigger that pushed it over the edge. It was a while ago, I think I ended up reinstalling Windows but it may be fixable by trying the post above yours.

[BIGNEWY]

21 minutes ago, dmatsch said:

This has GOT to be isolated to DCS

if it was I am sure we would have thousands of other users all with the same problem and we are not seeing that in our automated crash collector. 

[Dos]

Hello,

It is happening to me which led me here.

Mayday mayday mayday.

I can extract but the file inside I could not open. I am running operation Pontus and it consistently crashes on the F10 map.

Thanks

 

dcs.log-20230221-185845.zip

Edited February 22, 2023 by Dos