ED logout without login option

[BluePhantom]

For the past year I have been experiencing an issue whereby something happens and I lose my saved login data for the DCS World game itself and for the ED home site  (e.g., "user files", "change log"). Usually this is after Windows updates.

The problem is not that something happens to the stored or cached login information, it is the fact that neither the game nor the ED home site offers any option to log in again. If I try to go to the User Files page, all that happens is the bloody tab just keeps turning for eternity. No error. No please entry your log in information. Nothing.

In the case of the game, it loads up but logs in in standalone mode ("The web site is not available . . ."). Once in the game, I can logout but, again, but there is no option to provide login credentials log back in. It just kicks me out to the desktop.

The only solution is for me to clear my browser history/cache and restart the computer. This is very annoying and time consuming, as I must log back into every other web site just because of DCS.

To be clear, this is not a browser problem because it does NOT happen with any other program web site or game.  ONLY DCS.

[silverdevil]

On 1/10/2024 at 4:47 PM, BluePhantom said:

For the past year I have been experiencing an issue whereby something happens and I lose my saved login data for the DCS World game itself and for the ED home site  (e.g., "user files", "change log"). Usually this is after Windows updates.

The problem is not that something happens to the stored or cached login information, it is the fact that neither the game nor the ED home site offers any option to log in again. If I try to go to the User Files page, all that happens is the bloody tab just keeps turning for eternity. No error. No please entry your log in information. Nothing.

In the case of the game, it loads up but logs in in standalone mode ("The web site is not available . . ."). Once in the game, I can logout but, again, but there is no option to provide login credentials log back in. It just kicks me out to the desktop.

The only solution is for me to clear my browser history/cache and restart the computer. This is very annoying and time consuming, as I must log back into every other web site just because of DCS.

To be clear, this is not a browser problem because it does NOT happen with any other program web site or game.  ONLY DCS.

hello. weird issue. see if this post helps. 

for the life of me i do not know of a mechanism that would cause the browser and the sim share this problem. however i would try to solve the two issues separately.

[BluePhantom]

Thanks for the suggestion. I will use this next time it happens. In the meantime, I made sure DCS was allowed in my anti-virus SW. It seemed to be missing. Perhaps that was it.

[silverdevil]

8 hours ago, BluePhantom said:

Thanks for the suggestion. I will use this next time it happens. In the meantime, I made sure DCS was allowed in my anti-virus SW. It seemed to be missing. Perhaps that was it.

that indeed helps speed of loading DCS. i was originally taking 2 minutes for my system to load. now it takes about 30 seconds. though this should not affect the website. for website, try to open in another browser or private browsing window. good luck.