solved Recurring Crashes

[UncleStains]

I've been having a terrible recurring DCS crash issue over the past few weeks. I feel like I've tried everything, and certainly all the normal steps (fxo/metashaders, temp folder, remove mods). I put the three most recent crash zip files here. Can anyone please help? Thank you!

 

I also attached a few log files to this post.

dcs.20240320-035900.log dcs.20240320-015000.log dcs.log dcs.20240319-041418.log

Edited March 21, 2024 by UncleStains
Added log files

[Flappie]

Hi, I see you have 4 very different types of crash. It might point to a RAM issue. Have you scanned your RAM using MemTest86 yet?

[UncleStains]

You're a genius, thank you!!

[Flappie]

Glad I could help! 

[UncleStains]

Well, got new RAM and ran a 24 hour memtest86. All good there. But I'm still crashing. Less often, but it still happens. Just uninstalled DCS and I am reinstalling to see if that helps.

Latest crash dump (before DCS reinstall attempt) attached.

dcs.log-20240329-183830.zip

Edited March 29, 2024 by UncleStains

[Flappie]

Well, good news: it has nothing to do with your RAM anymore. That's a known bug and it will be fixed with the next DCS update.

2024-03-29 18:38:29.488 ERROR   GRAPHICSCORE (4232): Failed assert `depthBuffer.getDims() == dims && depthBuffer.getMSAA() == msaa` at D:\Projects\Buildworker\nevada_testing\build\Projects\render\renderer\Include\rwrappers\inl/FrameBuffer.inl:339
2024-03-29 18:38:29.488 ERROR   DX11BACKEND (4232): depth buffer mfdDepthBuffer (1280x1280) must be the same size as color targets (1024x1024)
2024-03-29 18:38:29.488 ERROR   DX11BACKEND (4232): Failed assert `false && "depth buffer must be the same size as color targets"` at Projects\render\dx11backend_win8\Source\DX11FrameBufferManager.cpp:101
2024-03-29 18:38:29.494 INFO    EDCORE (4232): try to write dump information
2024-03-29 18:38:29.506 INFO    EDCORE (4232): # -------------- 20240329-183830 --------------
2024-03-29 18:38:29.506 INFO    EDCORE (4232): DCS/2.9.3.51704 (x86_64; MT; Windows NT 10.0.22631)
2024-03-29 18:38:29.506 INFO    EDCORE (4232): C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin-mt\dx11backend.dll
2024-03-29 18:38:29.507 INFO    EDCORE (4232): # C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at 00007ffc03ca8c77 00:00000000
2024-03-29 18:38:29.507 INFO    EDCORE (4232): SymInit: Symbol-SearchPath: 'C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin-mt;', symOptions: 532, UserName: 'james'
2024-03-29 18:38:29.507 INFO    EDCORE (4232): OS-Version: 10.0.22631 () 0x300-0x1
2024-03-29 18:38:29.508 INFO    EDCORE (4232): 0x0000000000018c77 (dx11backend): RenderAPI::DX11Renderer::setNewFrameBuffer + 0x37
2024-03-29 18:38:29.508 INFO    EDCORE (4232): 0x0000000000017788 (dx11backend): RenderAPI::DX11Renderer::pushFrameBuffer + 0x68
2024-03-29 18:38:29.508 INFO    EDCORE (4232): 0x000000000000be2e (GraphicsCore): enlight::AtmosphereWrapper::precompute + 0x40E
2024-03-29 18:38:29.509 INFO    EDCORE (4232): 0x00000000000a3a41 (GraphicsCore): render::ShadowMapModule::queryCasters + 0x921
2024-03-29 18:38:29.509 INFO    EDCORE (4232): 0x00000000000542af (GraphicsCore): render::BaseRenderingPass::execute + 0x1F
2024-03-29 18:38:29.509 INFO    EDCORE (4232): 0x0000000000054974 (GraphicsCore): render::BaseRenderingPass::execute + 0x6E4
2024-03-29 18:38:29.509 INFO    EDCORE (4232): 0x0000000000058f7d (GraphicsCore): render::RenderGraph::render + 0xED
2024-03-29 18:38:29.509 INFO    EDCORE (4232): 0x000000000001bb92 (SceneRenderer): DCSSceneRenderer::renderBakedRenderGraph + 0x42
2024-03-29 18:38:29.509 INFO    EDCORE (4232): 0x000000000016299a (Visualizer): smSceneManager::regLua + 0x129A
2024-03-29 18:38:29.509 INFO    EDCORE (4232): 0x000000000014deb4 (Visualizer): smCamera_Implement::getClipRegion + 0x19594
2024-03-29 18:38:29.509 INFO    EDCORE (4232): 0x0000000000139cdc (Visualizer): smCamera_Implement::getClipRegion + 0x53BC
2024-03-29 18:38:29.509 INFO    EDCORE (4232): 0x0000000000151192 (Visualizer): smSceneManager::DestroySceneManager + 0x1222
2024-03-29 18:38:29.509 INFO    EDCORE (4232): 0x00000000000339c1 (edCore): ed::thread::_get_current_thread_id + 0x71
2024-03-29 18:38:29.510 INFO    EDCORE (4232): 0x0000000000029333 (ucrtbase): _recalloc + 0xA3
2024-03-29 18:38:29.510 INFO    EDCORE (4232): 0x000000000001257d (KERNEL32): BaseThreadInitThunk + 0x1D
2024-03-29 18:38:29.822 INFO    EDCORE (4232): Minidump created.

 

 

 

[UncleStains]

I did pretty extensive testing over the weekend, and I concur with your assessment. Going from Apache to A-10CII (or vice versa) resulted in a game crash. This is something I do a lot on Grayflag. Knowing this workaround, I was able to fly until my headset battery died without issue. I really appreciate your replies here!