The game is constantly crashing ever since I ran it at the first time.

[pomk]

Hi guys,

So happy to join the group.

I've been facing a game crash for nearly a month. It occurs every time I ran the game on Steam which is the only platform for me to play the game. 

I did troubleshooting myself by reinstalling the Windows and now it's Windows 11, redownloading the game twice. However, it is getting worse. 

Please help me out. These days I've tried hard to address the crash but it turns out all efforts are in vain. I am completely exhausted.

Here are the crash logs.     I am deeply grateful to everyone who helps me.

The last log records the crash after tweaking the register as it states :                                        

 

dcs.log-20230711-172612.zip dcs.log-20230711-170234.zip dcs.log-20230712-081100.zip

[BIGNEWY]

Hi, 

it looks like your gpu is crashing. 

Please ensure windows is up to date and the display driver also. 

you may want to try reinstalling the latest display driver 

also 

increase your pagefile

thank you

[Flappie]

I see BIGNEWY was faster than me.

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Welcome pomk.

I've had an important crash issue a few months ago after moving from Win 10 to Win 11. I solved my issue by uninstalling the GPU driver, rebooting, then installing a fresh one. Even though you had the problem before updating to Win 11, please try this first.

I see your DCS is only given a 5 GB pagefile, which is not enough. Use this guide to edit your pagefile settings. These are the settings I recommend for your PC:

• No pagefile on C:\ (it has too few space left).
• No pagefile on D:\ (2.5" SSD are slower than NVMe drives)
• Page file on E:\, init size = 32768, max size = 32768 (32 GB).

Then reboot your PC.

If DCS keeps crashing after all this, please attach a fresh dcs.log and we'll keep searching.

[pomk]

12 hours ago, BIGNEWY said:

Hi, 

it looks like your gpu is crashing. 

Please ensure windows is up to date and the display driver also. 

you may want to try reinstalling the latest display driver 

also 

increase your pagefile

thank you

Great thanks, I was deeply moved by seeing your reply. I will try that tonight. 

Edited July 13, 2023 by pomk

[pomk]

12 hours ago, Flappie said:

I see BIGNEWY was faster than me.

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Welcome pomk.

I've had an important crash issue a few months ago after moving from Win 10 to Win 11. I solved my issue by uninstalling the GPU driver, rebooting, then installing a fresh one. Even though you had the problem before updating to Win 11, please try this first.

I see your DCS is only given a 5 GB pagefile, which is not enough. Use this guide to edit your pagefile settings. These are the settings I recommend for your PC:

• No pagefile on C:\ (it has too few space left).
• No pagefile on D:\ (2.5" SSD are slower than NVMe drives)
• Page file on E:\, init size = 32768, max size = 32768 (32 GB).

Then reboot your PC.

If DCS keeps crashing after all this, please attach a fresh dcs.log and we'll keep searching.

So nice of you. Words cannot fully express my gratitude. Your guidance is so intelligible and helpful to the people like me who literally don't know how to set pagefile. I'll try it tonight. 

[pomk]

Hi guys,

I set my pagefile to 32GB and ran the game again. Unfortunately, however, the game crashed again. Here are the logs. Thanks for paying attention to my issue.

As a side note, does "DX11BACKEND (Main): failed to create structed buffer. Reason: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED" worth our attention?

dcs.log-20230713-082352.zip

Edited July 14, 2023 by pomk

[Flappie]

33 minutes ago, pomk said:

As a side note, does "DX11BACKEND (Main): failed to create structed buffer. Reason: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED" worth our attention?

Yes.

That is the reason for the crash. This error code means DCS was unable to talk with the GPU when it needed it, as if it was gone. This can come from many different things, from hardware to software. Please check this list of potential causes:

1. Windows power plan is saving energy while playing (ensure it's default power plan at least - not "eco" or anything like it)
2. GPU driver is faulty (you can try uninstall/reinstall it - you can even use DDU to make sure it's fully uninstalled)
3. GPU is overclocked too much
4. RAM is overclocked too much
5. PSU is faulty or not strong enough
6. GPU is faulty
7. CPU is clogged with dust
8. ASUS GPU Tweak is playing you tricks
9. MSI Afterburner is playing you tricks
10. Aorus Graphics Engine is playing you tricks
11. G-Sync Windowd/Fullscreen settings and DCS Windows/Fullscreen settings are not happy with each other

[pomk]

I see. I am going to follow the list to check my laptop. 

[Flappie]

Since it's a laptop, I guess you can skip the clogged CPU step. I should reorder items. Start from the bottom of the list.