Crash troubleshooting guide

There can be many different causes to DCS startup failures and crashes-to–desktop: a genuine DCS bug, conflicting user mods, incorrect DCS settings, faulty drivers, hardware failures, a corrupted file system... This guide is here to help. If it fails to do so, create your own thread and attach your dcs.log file. A. Windows instantly shows an error popup ("Bad image" or "The application was unable..." or "Error 0xC0000142") B. DCS crashes before the main menu is reached

E_OUTOFMEMORY / Out of memory / Not enough memory The crash was caused by a lack of memory. DCS uses three kinds of memory: VRAM (RAM that comes with the GPU), standard RAM (RAM that is used by the CPU), and Windows pagefile. When DCS complains about a lack of memory, it simply means it did not have the proper amount of memory to proceed. Read the third line of your dcs.log file to learn: How much RAM is detected by DCS (it should match the amount of RAM your PC has - if it doe