solved DCS Broken after update

[Justin1Ntime]

I just got a beta update today and now my DCS is no longer working. ST Just hangs on startup and MT is just a black screen. Anybody else running into this? One thing to note after the update it had me log in again for some reason and now nothing works. 

[Justin1Ntime]

Tried repairing no luck. Reinstalling. 

[Justin1Ntime]

Now I am worried. After a reinstall, I still am getting a black screen. I dont see how an update could be the problem at this point. But it was working just fine prior. 

[Dangerzone]

11 minutes ago, Justin1Ntime said:

Now I am worried. After a reinstall, I still am getting a black screen. I dont see how an update could be the problem at this point. But it was working just fine prior. 

Are you using Open Beta? If so, check your antivirus logs to see if any files are being placed into Quarantine. The last 2 Open Beta's have been flagging trojans (Possible false positives) in the combined arms DLL. May not be the case, but might be worth checking just to eliminate as a possibility.

[Justin1Ntime]

Just downloaded regular DCS and its working just fine. I just chcked and shut off all anti virus firewall etc then tried a relaunch and same thing. 

 

One thing to note is beta keeps trying to launch Steam and Oculus. The regular DCS does not do that. 

[Devrim]

@Justin1Ntime Sorry I saw your thread late.

Regular DCS will work for you, because it hasn't get the latest updates yet. Actually there's no need to download all stuff all over again. There's a simple command and you can convert your DCS to regular one.

But first, try this: Just go to C:\Users\{your-PC-username}\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta (or only DCS).

Backup your "Input" folder (in Config folder) and other folders like Missions, Tracks etc. and delete the DCS folder in Saved Games.

Now re-run the DCS. It will re-generate missing folders in Saved Games.

[Justin1Ntime]

Got ya, it was too late. I uninstalled then reinstalled a few times over and thank god I was not on a plan with a data cap . I did get it working. I had to rename the folder in saved games to .old then reinstall and it is now working again.