can not reproduce Apache cockpit graphics not showing

[imacken]

Weird issue. My Apache cockpit graphics are not showing, only skeleton outline.  Tried a repair, but made no difference.

Any ideas?

[BIGNEWY]

please include your dcs log it may have some clues. 

thanks

 

[imacken]

Sorry, yes here it is.

dcs.zip

[BIGNEWY]

Thanks 

your pagefile is set to low 

System RAM: 32541 MB, Pagefile: 5376 MB

I would increase it to 32541 MB

You are probably using some pagefile and as it is small it is swapping out a lot and textures are taking time to load. 

 

[imacken]

Thanks a lot, I’ll give that a go in a few minutes. 
However, I’m a little confused. I’ve got 32Gb DRAM and 24Gb VRAM and have never seen this happen before, in other modules in DCS or in any other game. I have used the Apache module often and never seen this before with it either. Why would it start happening now, and only in the Apache?

[imacken]

Yep, changing the pagefile made no difference to the issue.

It's only using about 15Gb of system ram and 9gb VRAM.

[imacken]

Works OK in Stable Version. 

[imacken]

Tried reinstalling the module, but no difference.

[imacken]

No one? Should I open a support ticket?

[imacken]

So, after trying a repair, a deep repair, a clean up, renaming Saved Game folder, etc., nothing worked to get the Apache back.

Although it seems like I'm talking to myself here , just in case anyone else has this issue, a clean DCS install solved the issue.

Thanks BN for the reply.

All good now!

[glen.a.williamson]

I think no one replied earlier because we did not have a clue as to what was causing your rather unique problem  ... thanks for letting us know how you finally managed to fix this ... sorry it took so much effort to resolve. 

[imacken]

Thanks. It was a really weird one!

[Rapierarch]

This seems to be the problem :

2023-04-24 12:20:32.434 ERROR   APP (Main): Error: Unit [AH-64D_BLK_II]: Corrupt damage model.
2023-04-24 12:20:32.512 WARNING EDCORE (Main): Source mods/aircraft/ah-64d/cockpit/shape is already mounted to the same mount /models/.
2023-04-24 12:20:32.512 ERROR   COCKPITBASE (Main): ccLuaLoader::LuaDofile(L, "./Mods/aircraft/AH-64D/Cockpit/Scripts/device_init.lua"): Can't execute Lua file ./Mods/aircraft/AH-64D/Cockpit/Scripts/device_init.lua - can't open './Mods/aircraft/AH-64D/Cockpit/Scripts/config.lua'

But I didn't understand why repair did not fix it and clean install was needed. My DCS installation is above 500GB. Fresh reinstall would be a nightmare for me. 

 

Edited April 29, 2023 by Rapierarch

[imacken]

Yes, you're right. It was the 3rd line there that caused the issue.

I'm also surprised that repair didn't pick it up, but also, neither did ED support on the ticket I raised.  When I asked about those errors, I was told it was 'normal'.

Oh well, all working now anyway.