unable to reproduce Game crashes when cycling through George target list while a unit is destroyed

[pdnced]

I've been experiencing multiple game crashes while flying the AH-64. It seems related to George's target list, as it always happen whenever I'm cycling through said list. However, some additional circumstances possibly need to happen: I suspect that a unit in the list being destroyed in-game as I'm cycling through the list is part of those circumstances. Could be other reasons.

These crashes have happened in several servers and different maps, both in multi-threading and single-threading. Always cycling through George unit list. 

To sum up, the issue always occurs when:

• I'm piloting the AH-64
• Using George AI to find targets
• (May or may not use George AI down long to have him scan the same area again)
• One target from the list gets destroyed while I'm cycling through the list
• I keep cycling down
• I see an ERR! in the unit list, and game crashes

Otherwise (if no units are destroyed while using George) I can operate George AI as normal, cycle through units, select them, engage them, etc. But it seems that some conditions occur that lead to game crashes. 

See "ERR!" in the unit list, bottom left corner of the screenshot:

 

I'm attaching logs from the the last incident crash dump. I can provide a track file as well, however it is 123MB in size and can't be attached.

Due to the almost coincidental chain of events that need to happen for the game to crash, I cannot reproduce the bug at will. However, it has happened at least 6 times in the past 3-4 days, so it is not spectacularly uncommon.

I've searched the forums for related issues, but couldn't find any.

Many thanks.

dcs.log-20231018-150821.zip

[TheGhostOfDefi]

Did you try to run a repair if you game? 
But good report so far

[FalcoGer]

How do you get a track if the game crashes?

couldn't reproduce... Maybe it's deactivation and not destruction?

target_destroyed_while_list_open.trk

but feel free to try it yourself

Ah64Issues.miz

Edited October 21, 2023 by FalcoGer

[FalcoGer]

I altered the mission and added a group disable trigger. I now get the ERR! to show, but it doesn't crash the game.

Ah64Issues.miz

target_deactivated_while_list_open.trk

[pdnced]

Thank you for your investigation, FalcoGer. 

I haven't been able to repro the issue since the 2.9 update. Maybe there was something wrong with my installation that got repaired during the update.

[Lord Vader]

Glad to see you got it sorted, @pdnced

If you happen to find the issue again, let us know.