lesthegrngo Posted July 17, 2023 Posted July 17, 2023 Hi all, I have just done a clean reinstall of first DCS World, which seemed to go OK and is working, and today DCS World Open Beta. It has installed, but didn't ask me which location so defaulted to C/programfiles/Eagledynamics/DCSWorld Now when I click on the icon, or go to Start - DCS World Open Beta, it runs the update check, then does nothing more. I performed a repair, which found nothing, and it still won't start. Firstly, obviously I want it to work, but can I check that it is permissible to have both DSC World standalone and DCS World Open Beta on the same PC? If it is, how come there was no option to install it on the drive I want? I would have put it on an NVMe drive to improve start up speed but had no choice. Is it possible to move it? Please note these are the non-Steam versions Cheers Les
Flappie Posted July 17, 2023 Posted July 17, 2023 (edited) Hi. I've had the same behaviour once. Yes, you can have several DCS installed on your computer. Yes, you can move a DCS installation on another drive. Simply cut and paste the main folder. You can also choose, for each instance, the name of your Saved Games/DCS... folder. Create a dcs_variant.txt file at the root of the game folder, edit it, and type "banana" (without the quotes) to obtain a DCS.banana Saved Games folder. Edited July 17, 2023 by Flappie ---
MAXsenna Posted July 17, 2023 Posted July 17, 2023 Hi Les!Do yourself a couple of favors.Get Skatezilla's excellent GUI Updater/Launcher app, and:Forget about DCS shortcuts forever and never.Update at your leisure and choosing, not (always) when starting DCS. Update with a click, and get reminded to remove mods before updating.Repair with a click.Clean with a click. Install modules before starting DCS. (Unless a new module haven't been added to the app).Native launching of VR.In app shortcuts for 3rd party apps like, TrackIR, TacView, SRS, TeamSpeak and five customizable.Launch dedicated server mode."Kill" the DCS process when fail to start etc. And much more...Also, get a live log viewer like the excellent free "SPHW LogViewer" and monitor your DCS log file Live, and you can see wherever DCS stops loading or crashing.You can even add colors to the lines in the log for better error tracking. Just ask for more info.To be honest, I cannot fathom why Eagle Dynamics doesn't make their own launcher with all these features, to save them miles and hours of headache. Cheers!PS: My first post got deleted, and I forgot to re-add what Flappie wrote.The dcs_variant.txt should be added automatically when installing OB.Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk 1
lesthegrngo Posted July 18, 2023 Author Posted July 18, 2023 12 hours ago, Flappie said: Hi. I've had the same behaviour once. Yes, you can have several DCS installed on your computer. Yes, you can move a DCS installation on another drive. Simply cut and paste the main folder. You can also choose, for each instance, the name of your Saved Games/DCS... folder. Create a dcs_variant.txt file at the root of the game folder, edit it, and type "banana" (without the quotes) to obtain a DCS.banana Saved Games folder. Thanks for this, will give that a go - and cheers for confirming multiple installations is OK 12 hours ago, MAXsenna said: Hi Les! Do yourself a couple of favors. Get Skatezilla's excellent GUI Updater/Launcher app, and: Forget about DCS shortcuts forever and never. Update at your leisure and choosing, not (always) when starting DCS. Update with a click, and get reminded to remove mods before updating. Repair with a click. Clean with a click. Install modules before starting DCS. (Unless a new module haven't been added to the app). Native launching of VR. In app shortcuts for 3rd party apps like, TrackIR, TacView, SRS, TeamSpeak and five customizable. Launch dedicated server mode. "Kill" the DCS process when fail to start etc. And much more... Also, get a live log viewer like the excellent free "SPHW LogViewer" and monitor your DCS log file Live, and you can see wherever DCS stops loading or crashing. You can even add colors to the lines in the log for better error tracking. Just ask for more info. To be honest, I cannot fathom why Eagle Dynamics doesn't make their own launcher with all these features, to save them miles and hours of headache. Cheers! PS: My first post got deleted, and I forgot to re-add what Flappie wrote. The dcs_variant.txt should be added automatically when installing OB. Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk Thanks - I'd never heard of that, I'll have to search that out Les
lesthegrngo Posted July 19, 2023 Author Posted July 19, 2023 I tried the GUI updater, and while it has no problems with DCS World, when you try it with DCS World Open Beta it shows 1, then 2 processes running in the bottom right hand corner, then simply goes back to 0 processes and that's it. I tried the SPHW LogViewer but that just fails to load giving an error I cannot open DCS World Open beta despite using the clean, repair etc facilities Les
MAXsenna Posted July 19, 2023 Posted July 19, 2023 Not sure what happened with the log viewer, but what happens if you try to do a repair of the OpenBeta installation?Could you post the DCS.log? Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk
lesthegrngo Posted July 19, 2023 Author Posted July 19, 2023 I did a repair using the Updater, let me get the log file Cheers Les
lesthegrngo Posted July 20, 2023 Author Posted July 20, 2023 I think this is the one you wanted, let me know if it isn't the correct one autoupdate_log.txt
lesthegrngo Posted July 22, 2023 Author Posted July 22, 2023 I still cannot get DCS World Open Beta working, but am not confident a clean reinstall will change anything. Has anyone got any suggestions on how to proceed on this? Les
Flappie Posted July 22, 2023 Posted July 22, 2023 Hi Les. The log file we're looking for is named "dcs.log". You will find it in your "Saved Games/DCS.openbeta/Logs" folder. It may appear as "dcs". It will help us understand why DCS cannot be started. 1 ---
lesthegrngo Posted July 23, 2023 Author Posted July 23, 2023 Hi there, thanks for this The DCSOpenbeta folder in Saved Games is empty, apart from a Scripts folder which is itself empty. There is nothing else there, unlike the DCS Saved Games folder where there are many subfolders including the Log folder is it possible it didn't install correctly? If so why doesn't that show up on the repair? Cheers Les
Flappie Posted July 23, 2023 Posted July 23, 2023 On 7/17/2023 at 6:03 PM, Flappie said: Create a dcs_variant.txt file at the root of the game folder, edit it, and type "banana" (without the quotes) to obtain a DCS.banana Saved Games folder. Have you tried this already? (you can choose the name you want, don't use banana) ---
lesthegrngo Posted July 23, 2023 Author Posted July 23, 2023 Just did it, and it created the folder in the saved games, but nothing else. I went into DCSOpenbeta/bin/ and double clicked on the DCS.exe and Autoupdater.exe files, in the first case nothing, in the second case it runs the autoupdater then closes Les
Flappie Posted July 23, 2023 Posted July 23, 2023 This looks like a complex one. Please open a support ticket. ED tech support will take you from here. Log into DCS website, click Support, then click Create a new ticket. Add a link to the present thread. ---
Solution MAXsenna Posted July 23, 2023 Solution Posted July 23, 2023 Open the Dcs_variant.txt and type in "openbeta" as that's the correct default setting when installing OpenBeta, for creation of the DCS.openbeta folder under Saved Games. Then try a re-installation, and see if you now can choose the path. It's very strange you couldn't.Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk
lesthegrngo Posted July 23, 2023 Author Posted July 23, 2023 Amazingly, that worked - maybe a corrupted original Dcs_variant file? Having said that, the openbeta saved games file was there before Cheers for the help Les 1
MAXsenna Posted July 23, 2023 Posted July 23, 2023 1 minute ago, lesthegrngo said: Amazingly, that worked - maybe a corrupted original Dcs_variant file? Having said that, the openbeta saved games file was there before Cheers for the help Les Oh, that's great news! Something went wrong in the initial installation it seems. Maybe the second one recreated the registry paths, (which I forgot to mention to check), and everything just fell into place. Happy it's now working! Cheers!
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