Game crashing

[Rensemiester]

Any help here would be appreciated, this is a duplicate post, as I posted this in one of the newcomer forums originally. 

My PCU specs are as follows:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

GPU: RTX 4090 

RAM: 64GB

Any help would be massively appreciated. I built this PC around 2-3months ago, and the performance has been perfect, it's just been recently that the game has been crashing. Heat doesn't appear to be an issue at all with the CPU or GPU, I've been running HW monitor and when it crashes, the CPU is below 40 degrees C and the GPU is below 70 degrees C. 

I have tried everything I can think of to resolve the crashing issues, including installing DCS updates, running a repair on DCS, full windows updates, Nvidia driver updates etc. 

Unfortunately, I'm still experiencing crashing within a few minutes of starting a flight. 

Please see attached logs, and any advice would be most welcome. 

Thank you. 

dcs.log-20230922-191308.zip dcs.log-20230922-191618.zip dcs.log-20230922-192521.zip dcs.log-20230922-193713.zip dcs.log-20230923-114758.zip dcs.log-20231001-105846.zip

[AdrianL]

15 minutes ago, Rensemiester said:

Any help here would be appreciated,

The logs are showing a "DX device removed" error. Basically DCS cannot reach the GPU anymore.

See the thread linked below for possible causes / fixes 

 

Also ensure Hot-Plug devices is disabled

 

Edited October 1, 2023 by AdrianL

[Antiguedad]

I've also had issues with 2-3 latest nVidia drivers releases, such as game crashes, hard crashes and a random checkerboard pattern in Chromium based browsers (Edge, Google Chrome) as you can see in nVidia forums.

Last one stable for me was 536.99 Studio Drivers from 8-8-2023. Try this: NVIDIA Studio Driver | 536.99 | Windows 10 64-bit, Windows 11 | NVIDIA and see if DCS is stable with it.

[Rensemiester]

Thanks @AdrianL

I've followed/double checked all the steps above. 

The main thing that required changing for me so far was:

• Power plan settings - set to max. 
• Disabled Nvidia perf overlay.
• Disabled hot plug. 

I'll test and revert back. 

@Antiguedad - that sounds like a good idea. I was thinking about rolling back drivers as I've been regularly updating my drivers. 

That is one of the few things that has changed since the crashing started, so makes sense to roll it back. 

I'll see if the above changes make a difference, if it continues to crash, that will be my next step. 

[Flappie]

In most of your log files, I see integrity check errors a few seconds/minutes before the usual "DX device removed" error.

So far, I think your issue is caused either by your GPU or your RAM. RAM issues are easier to check. You should start from there: