Game CTD every time at world preload.

[KIWIHAWK]

Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900KF  

RAM 32 GB

GIGABYTE RTX 4090

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After the last couple of updates the Game CTD very time at the world preload stage whilst loading into a mission.  Sometimes at 1/60, sometimes it will get to 4-7/60 then CTD or even restart the computer sometimes.  It will do it in VR or 2D. I have carried out a repair and have removed all mods.  I have uninstalled and reinstalled the whole game. I have cleared the FXO and metashader files in saved games. I even cleared the whole saved games file. Have rolled the game back to 2.8.8.43704. The problem remains. I've now updated back to the latest open beta. Changing the options.lua to options.lua.bak, works just the once intermittently then its back to CTD. Check the logs below and see what you think. Thanks. 

dcs.log dcs1.log dcs2.log

[BIGNEWY]

Hi, 

check your VAICOM isnt creating an issue. 

Also you have some hotplug events, try disabling hotplug in DCS controls 

If you overclock your cpu or gpu try default values. 

thanks

[KIWIHAWK]

@BIGNEWY Thanks for the reply. 

 

• The hot plug was already disabled, but I cycled the option anyway.
• I removed all traces of Vaicom that I could find.
• GPU and CPU are at default settings.

The result is now I can load into the cockpit every time, which is progress. The CTD now occurs at or a few seconds after I press "FLY". Please see the logs attached to see what you or your colleagues think. Thanks.  

dcsMT.log dcs.log

[BIGNEWY]

Hi,

you seem to have issues loading some shaders

Can you let me know about your E drive? is it your fastest drive and how full is it and is it an SSD?

 

You should try the multi-threaded version of DCS World by using the dcs.exe in the mt-bin folder

Make sure your display driver is up to date and windows. 

Go to saved games dcs folder 

C:\Users\your name\Saved Games\DCS\

delete fxo folder and metashader2 then restart DCS, it will take longer as it needs to create new shaders. 

 

Tuning Tips
 
Set Preload Radius to max. 60000.
Consider using DLAA.
 

[Flappie]

@KIWIHAWK Try this: uninstall your GPU driver, reboot, then install a fresh GPU driver.

[KIWIHAWK]

@BIGNEWYThanks for the reply

 

• E: Drive is a Samsung 860 EVO SSD 1TB, it has 179GB free. Its my fastest drive and DCS lives on it. Windows 11 OS is on a different drive which is a Crucial CT125 SSD 254GB it has only 9.34GB free.
• I'll try all of your other suggestions when I have come off shift.

 

@FlappieThanks for your suggestion.

• I'll uninstall my Nvidia driver using DDU, reboot and do a fresh install.

Guys, I'll be in touch with the results, again thank you for your time looking into this, its much appreciated. 

 

 

[KIWIHAWK]

@BIGNEWY and @Flappie

I've carried out the tasks you have suggested. The game does run I lot better and I can get in to fly a mission for a limited time some times 15 minutes, others only a few minutes. Have have attached some logs from the most recent CTDs for you to have a look at. Thank you.

dcs.log dcs.log

[BIGNEWY]

It looks like you are having trouble loading textures still. 

The log shows 

2024-01-25 00:58:52.767 WARNING SCENERENDERER (19120): render graph: forced to update texture desc of already created texture on the same frame (0)
2024-01-25 00:58:52.808 ERROR   BACKENDCOMMON (9468): Texture /textures/F-18C_damage_main.dds is 3d but has depth == 1.

then your DCS has a hard crash. 

can you attach a screenshot of your NVIDIA control panel settings

try resetting your NVIDIA Control panel settings

[Yuma]

16 hours ago, KIWIHAWK said:

@BIGNEWY and @Flappie

I've carried out the tasks you have suggested. The game does run I lot better and I can get in to fly a mission for a limited time some times 15 minutes, others only a few minutes. Have have attached some logs from the most recent CTDs for you to have a look at. Thank you.

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@KIWIHAWK I think I’m having a similar issue, but different errors in the logs but same signs. Did you find a solution yet?

[KIWIHAWK]

@Yuma I have not found a solution in with MT with random CTD. I converted over to stand alone from Steam about six months ago but kept using Steam VR for a while before moving to Open XR.  So I tried ST but had some weird flicking in my headset (pimax 8K) in Open XR. I tried going back to Steam VR in ST. It seems to work in that arrangement. I had a 90 minute session in Multiplayer last night with no issues. I will still keep playing around, but it seems to work with ST and Steam VR at the moment. I would suggest carrying out all the suggestions from Bignewy and Flappie as they have improved performance quite a lot. 

[KIWIHAWK]

After trying everything I can think of, including removing, cleaning and refitting hardware, I updated my BIOS to the latest version. It now seems to work properly with no CTD. I had previously changed my CPU. This may have caused an issue with the motherboard. So there you go. Gigabyte AORUS PRO DDR4 motherboard BIOS updated to F28.