DCS Crashes on Campaign Missions

[cyb3rfly3r]

Hi Reflected,

Firstly, I love your content and purchased three of your WWII campaigns so far. Currently playing Wolfpack, which is fantastic: the immersion you created is simply awesome and exactly what I was looking for.

I am experiencing issues with some of the missions crashing randomly about 30 minutes into the mission. Unfortunately for me, it crashes most often on the way home after almost completing the mission, which is very frustrating. It ruins the immersion and the fun.

I know that it is not, most likely, a problem with how the campaign is designed, but I am providing feedback in the hope that you, as a content developer, can make ED focus on fixing the game stability. There is nothing better than DCS for flying warbirds realistically, so it is a pity that stability problems ruin the experience.

Here are some details that could be useful to understand what is going on.

• Not all missions crash. Mission #2 gave me the most problems (crashed 5 times, always on return over England, approaching Deitling); Mission #6 also crashes on returning.
• I am running the latest openbeta, with VR (Oculus Quest 2) and Multi-Threading
• I checked DCS logs and did not see anything obvious; the game freezes and there is no way to continue.
• Computer is pretty solid: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900KF @ 3.50GHz, 64 GB RAM, NVIDIA RTX 3090, SSD Drives
• The Game does not crash as often in Multiplayer (weirdly enough), but some crashes happen

Thank you!

Edited April 27, 2023 by cyb3rfly3r

[Reflected]

Hi, thanks a lot for the support.

Yeah, campaign missions are usually more complex than MP or any other missions, so this is when your PC is most likely to crash if something is not square. However, this is not something I can fix within the mission editor, it has nothing to do with triggers or anything. I can't even read crash logs.

I'd suggest you attach your crash logs and make a post here:

https://forum.dcs.world/forum/482-game-crash/

ED can then check the logs and point out why the crashes occur - driver, hardware, map bug, whatever the cause may be.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

[ChillNG]

9 hours ago, cyb3rfly3r said:

Hi Reflected,

Firstly, I love your content and purchased three of your WWII campaigns so far. Currently playing Wolfpack, which is fantastic: the immersion you created is simply awesome and exactly what I was looking for.

I am experiencing issues with some of the missions crashing randomly about 30 minutes into the mission. Unfortunately for me, it crashes most often on the way home after almost completing the mission, which is very frustrating. It ruins the immersion and the fun.

I know that it is not, most likely, a problem with how the campaign is designed, but I am providing feedback in the hope that you, as a content developer, can make ED focus on fixing the game stability. There is nothing better than DCS for flying warbirds realistically, so it is a pity that stability problems ruin the experience.

Here are some details that could be useful to understand what is going on.

• Not all missions crash. Mission #2 gave me the most problems (crashed 5 times, always on return over England, approaching Deitling); Mission #6 also crashes on returning.
• I am running the latest openbeta, with VR (Oculus Quest 2) and Multi-Threading
• I checked DCS logs and did not see anything obvious; the game freezes and there is no way to continue.
• Computer is pretty solid: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900KF @ 3.50GHz, 64 GB RAM, NVIDIA RTX 3090, SSD Drives
• The Game does not crash as often in Multiplayer (weirdly enough), but some crashes happen

Thank you!

 

Just a thought, hope Reflected doesn't mind me chiming in.  I see Quest 2 crashes on Multi threading in campaign missions as well (got pretty much the same setup as you), I've generally stopped my campaign testing on the MT branch as I'm finding it too unstable and really can't afford to waste development time on crashes in testing.  MT always starts off with great performance but tanks after a while, leading to a crash.  Might be worth trying in normal OB if you haven't.

[Reflected]

Thanks a lot @ChillNG, yes that's worth a try too.

[cyb3rfly3r]

8 hours ago, ChillNG said:

Just a thought, hope Reflected doesn't mind me chiming in.  I see Quest 2 crashes on Multi threading in campaign missions as well (got pretty much the same setup as you), I've generally stopped my campaign testing on the MT branch as I'm finding it too unstable and really can't afford to waste development time on crashes in testing.  MT always starts off with great performance but tanks after a while, leading to a crash.  Might be worth trying in normal OB if you haven't.

Thank you for the advice, I will try that. Hopefully, it can run with enough FPS to be playable with the single-thread executable.