resolved Crash exiting DCS

[petsild]

No improvement yet, I turned on advanced log.

Several years no crash and the latest build regularly.

debrief.log dcs.log-20231223-130427.zip

[BIGNEWY]

1 minute ago, petsild said:

No improvement yet, I turned on advanced log.

Several years no crash and the latest build regularly.

debrief.log 127.09 kB · 0 downloads dcs.log-20231223-130427.zip 230.46 kB · 0 downloads

Error
Callname 9 not found for offmap-supply-blue-5-1 !
Line
603
Script
./Scripts/Speech/common.lua

Error
bad argument #2 to 'format' (string expected, got nil)
Line
53
Script
.\Scripts\RPC.lua

Error
Callname 11 not found for offmap-supply-blue-3-1 !
Line
603
Script
./Scripts/Speech/common.lua

Please run a slow repair of DCS 

It looks like callsigns issue, maybe some mission or script is using callsigns not available 

[petsild]

All crashes are caused by the Apache module and the F4C3S OF D34TH server.

[MadKreator]

Crashing on exiting the game only , here. 8 or 9 times out of 10. Sent crash report each time. No “Mods” installed. I do run helios though. Will post a log next time it happens.

[KoleTang]

Crash on exiting here as well.  No mods.  New with latest release.

[II.JG1_Vonrd]

Still crashing on exit 90% of time. Crashed once when I had left the game idle while cooking dinner. Returned to find crash notice. Every crash I have to use Task Manager to end process. I considered transferring a load of the game from my other PC but the folder is so large that I don't have available space on any of my external drives. I would much prefer to fix the current install. I tried a fresh install on my other drive on this machine from the DCS site but it started copying everything from my current installation. How can I make a fresh install without deleting my current one?

Here's the last logs, Debrief log included. I'm going to post additional logs daily as they occur. Maybe there will be similarities apparent which might lead to the culprit. 

All mods (as far as I know) are disabled by OVGME.

Should I make a backup of the contents of Saved Games on the other drive and then delete the contents of the current Saved Games/DCS Open Beta folder and run the game to re-populate it?

dcs.log

debrief.log

Edited December 25, 2023 by II.JG1_Vonrd

[Flappie]

Simpler:

1. Browse to Saved Games.
2. Rename your current DCS.openbeta folder into "DCS.openbeta.bak" (do NOT delete it).
3. Run DCS: it will create a virgin DCS.openbeta folder.
4. Exit DCS.

Your custom controls are stored in DCS.openbeta.bak/Config/Input.

Now, simply copy this Input folder into the new DCS.openbeta/Config folder in order to retrieve your controls.

Then find out if DCS keeps crashing.

[II.JG1_Vonrd]

22 hours ago, II.JG1_Vonrd said:

make a backup of the contents of Saved Games on the other drive and then delete the contents of the current Saved Games/DCS Open Beta folder and run the game to re-populate it?

@Flappie Thanks for the info but I had already done as noted above and have only repopulated the following folders:

• Config, Kneeboard, Liveries, Mission Editor and Missions. I also created an empty Mods folder. I'm enabling mods from OVGME one at a time and so far, none have issues.

It worked... no more crashes and I have lost none of my settings. It looks like I had some problematic folders / files in there, for example:

Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Bazar\shaders\model\functions which contained the file "glass.hlsl". I have no idea where that came from. Maybe a reminant on one of the "Clear Glass" mods.

Anyway, I'm just happy for no more crashing.

Edited December 26, 2023 by II.JG1_Vonrd

[MadKreator]

So mine seems to have been solved.. so far. I said I don’t  have any mods… in the typical sense of user created aircraft, assets etc. I do use several scripts though( which I suppose are “mods”) . Helios, SRS, DCS Scratchpad, The Way, PW-DEV ( DCS-UFC/ DCS NAV) and now Olympus… After some testing, deleting, trying things out one by one. I ended up removing DCS-UFC and DCS Scratchpad scripts from Saved Games and haven’t  had a crash on exit since. In 20-30 ish times firing it up.

[petsild]

Even a clean install did not help to solve the crashes, the latest beta build behaves unstable.

What I managed to observe mainly when looking at the units externally.

[MadKreator]

I lied, got another crash on exit.. at least its only on exit, never during the game. Just the one after an hour long mission or so. 

[petsild]

Hi,

I've tried various tricks of tweaking Windows or Nvidia settings and nothing has any effect on the crash.

Since the last one I have over 50 failures mainly in MP, but I can also force in SP on a clean map.

The vast majority of errors end with edCore.dll C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION

[petsild]

Hi,

what actually happens when DCS terminates, we all wait at the black screen for a long time.

Lately DCS doesn't crash during flight, but irregularly when exiting why?

[petsild]

No improvement after update, still crashes on dxgui.dll when exiting DCS.

[silverdevil]

2 hours ago, petsild said:

No improvement after update, still crashes on dxgui.dll when exiting DCS.

please post your latest DCS.LOG from when it crashes.

[petsild]

 

I have a full disk of them.

dcs.20240224-211954.log

[Wostg]

Hi I have no idea whether this your issue, but crashing at exit stopped entirely for me after commenting out theway in export.lua, worth a test if you haven't tried.

[Comrade Doge]

Hello everyone, the issue was found, it was due to a problem in the mod TheWay, which I have created. This has now been fixed in the most recent version found here.

There will not be any crashes when exiting the game anymore. My apologies for the confusion.

[petsild]

Hi,

Due to random crashes, I ruled out TheWay as the main culprit and then turned it back on in Scripts.

 

I am very glad that the mystery has been solved, thank you all for your help and support.

[buceador]

Simply for information, DCS crashes each time I exit the program when using certain mods, I KNOW this is because of a MOD that I want use in specific missions.  I have 2 MODS folders, one that I know will NOT crash the program on exit and one that I know WILL.  Crashing after I click exit doesn't worry me...

[petsild]

Which mod specifically?