DCS 2.9 crashes every time at World Preload: 1/60

BekJds · January 19, 2024

Two or more years ago, this game worked fine on this PC, since then I left it. Now since updating to current version, I am unable to get past loading screen when starting mission, I tried 20+ times, always it crash on "World Preload: 1/60".

Can someone help with reason it may be crashing?

Things tried: deleted Saved Games/DCS folder to create new one, verified the game files via Steam, set graphics to low, moved pagefile to SSD and increased its size to 32 GB, sfc /scannow, and install latest graphics driver.

Spec:
GTX 1070 8 GB
16 GB RAM
i5-4590

I attach the log as text file.

dcs.20240118-233518.log

Insonia · January 19, 2024

Quote

verified the game files via Steam

Your sure Steam fix the files?

your game crash while compiling the shaders. there were lot of shadar errors and file CRC error indicate your have file corruptions or maybe a faulty harddrives.

model/def_material.fx
(this situation should not occur on end user PC, if there is no manual shader editing)

2024-01-18 23:31:27.298 ERROR   EDCORE (Main): [coremods/aircraft/mig-21bis/liveries/mig-21bis/syria (2)/description.lua] ReadFile(6137): Data error (cyclic redundancy check).
2024-01-18 23:31:27.298 ERROR   Lua::Config (Main): load error ²ù޹´ùùúû:[string "?"]:1: unexpected symbol near '²'.

Edited January 20, 2024 by Insonia

Flappie · January 19, 2024

And try this:

Browse to "Saved Games/DCS.../Config".
Rename options.lua to "options.lua.bak".

BekJds · January 20, 2024

I'll check those solutions. I see it says access violation in log but it seems this is too vague.

I also tried reverting to DCS 2.5.6. And this version loads fast and works perfectly. But it's not a solution to play a 4 years old version.

schroedi · January 22, 2024

I have the same problem, DCS 2.9.2 or any version 2.9.x crashes at "World Preload: 1/60" but worked fine with 2.8.8

Edited January 22, 2024 by schroedi

Flappie · January 22, 2024

4 hours ago, schroedi said:

I have the same problem, DCS 2.9.2 or any version 2.9.x crashes at "World Preload: 1/60" but worked fine with 2.8.8

Have you tried why I suggested?

Nimbur · January 28, 2024

I have found the following solution from Drex his Discord ( ddcs).

I've seen a lot of players recently, especially VR users talk about timed stutters while in VR. I was having these stutters about every 5 seconds when I was watching my FPS counter in DCS World. I shown how to use the System File Checker (SFC) and the Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) tool to help service your Win10/11 image.

27. Januar 2024