Slippa Posted October 10, 2023 Posted October 10, 2023 Hello, When trying OB today I watched it load to a black screen and lock up. It was fine yesterday. I tried 3 times with the same result so ran a long repair. Still no joy so I came here looking for clues again and came to the conclusion maybe I should try changing my Saved Games folder. I did that but it hasn't changed anything. I still have Stable installed which loaded first time when I tried it. Going back for another try at OB I got the same blank screen lock up. Neither OB nor Stable have created a new Saved Games folder as I assumed it would. Not that I can see anywhere. I'm no better at understanding how it manages to break without any changes. I've done everything I can think of, would appreciate any help. cheers for looking. dcs.log
silverdevil Posted October 11, 2023 Posted October 11, 2023 9 hours ago, Slippa said: Hello, When trying OB today I watched it load to a black screen and lock up. It was fine yesterday. I tried 3 times with the same result so ran a long repair. Still no joy so I came here looking for clues again and came to the conclusion maybe I should try changing my Saved Games folder. I did that but it hasn't changed anything. I still have Stable installed which loaded first time when I tried it. Going back for another try at OB I got the same blank screen lock up. Neither OB nor Stable have created a new Saved Games folder as I assumed it would. Not that I can see anywhere. I'm no better at understanding how it manages to break without any changes. I've done everything I can think of, would appreciate any help. cheers for looking. from the log DCS does not appear to be crashing. just a guess but it is possible your Saved Games location is not set where it should be. the folder is considered a Windows System folder. open File Explorer and put %USERPROFILE% in the address bar. see if Saved Games is there. 2 AKA_SilverDevil Join AKA Wardogs Email Address My YouTube “The MIGS came up, the MIGS were aggressive, we tangled, they lost.” - Robin Olds - An American fighter pilot. He was a triple ace. The only man to ever record a confirmed kill while in glide mode.
Slippa Posted October 11, 2023 Author Posted October 11, 2023 Cheers Silver, My Saved games folder is on my D drive. I've had it set up like that since the beginning. I just opened file explorer and as you thought, it was there. I tried OB again just now. It did the same as it did last night, loaded to black and sat there. I had to open task manager to end task and close it. I used OB as usual the other night, shut down as I usually would and hadn't used the computer until I tried DCS again. I've got a log from just now but if the one from last night didn't show a crash, this one probably wont either but believe me, it should end with the line 'crashes to black screen' somewhere? Thanks for taking the time. dcs.log
Slippa Posted October 11, 2023 Author Posted October 11, 2023 3 hours ago, Flappie said: Try these steps: I did. Following the steps in this fixed it. A. DCS main menu does not appear I'll have to reinstall the backup I have of my options settings (Unless that's a bad idea) but other than that it's sorted. Well done Flappie, you must sleep well knowing how much help you are around here. Thanks a bundle. 2
Flappie Posted October 11, 2023 Posted October 11, 2023 3 minutes ago, Slippa said: Well done Flappie, you must sleep well knowing how much help you are around here. Thanks a bundle. Actually, it's the other way around: I'm able to help a lot because I don't sleep that much. 3 ---
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