DCS 2.9 Standalone crashes before splash screen, nothing in logs

[bngtech]

My DCS 2.9 standalone crashes to my desktop before a splash screen or anything else loads. It worked fine in the steam version. I uninstalled that version and installed the standalone from the website.

 

I have tried to update and repair, both claim the installation is fine.

 

DCS.exe appears in the taskmanager for about 15-20 seconds but then disappears.

 

Here are the only things that show in the log:

 

=== Log opened UTC 2024-05-11 15:55:23
2024-05-11 15:55:22.729 INFO    EDCORE (Main): system  affinity mask: 111111111111
2024-05-11 15:55:22.729 INFO    EDCORE (Main): process affinity mask: 111111111111
2024-05-11 15:55:22.731 INFO    EDCORE (Main): CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor              [1x L3 caches]
2024-05-11 15:55:22.731 INFO    EDCORE (Main): CPU has uniform cache size 32 MB (per cache)
2024-05-11 15:55:22.731 INFO    EDCORE (Main): all CPU cores have the same efficiency class 0
2024-05-11 15:55:22.731 INFO    EDCORE (Main): CPU cores have different performance classes: [0-4]
2024-05-11 15:55:22.731 INFO    EDCORE (Main): logical cores with performance class 4: {2, 3}
2024-05-11 15:55:22.731 INFO    EDCORE (Main): logical cores with performance class 4: {6, 7}
2024-05-11 15:55:22.731 INFO    EDCORE (Main): logical cores with performance class 3: {4, 5}
2024-05-11 15:55:22.731 INFO    EDCORE (Main): logical cores with performance class 2: {10, 11}
2024-05-11 15:55:22.731 INFO    EDCORE (Main): logical cores with performance class 1: {8, 9}
2024-05-11 15:55:22.731 INFO    EDCORE (Main): logical cores with performance class 0: {0, 1}
2024-05-11 15:55:22.731 INFO    EDCORE (Main): common cores: {10, 11, 8, 9, 0, 1}
2024-05-11 15:55:22.731 INFO    EDCORE (Main): render cores: {2, 3, 6, 7, 4, 5}
2024-05-11 15:55:22.731 INFO    EDCORE (Main): IO cores: {}
2024-05-11 15:55:24.740 INFO    EDCORE (Main): pause10: 0.015599 us (std dev: 0.080799)
2024-05-11 15:55:24.740 INFO    EDCORE (Main): pause10: 521 cycles (std dev: 2205.0)
2024-05-11 15:55:24.784 INFO    EDCORE (Main): Created boot pool: n:12
2024-05-11 15:55:24.785 INFO    APP (Main): Command line: "D:\Games\DCS World\bin-mt\DCS.exe"
2024-05-11 15:55:24.786 INFO    APP (Main): DCS/2.9.4.53990 (x86_64; MT; Windows NT 10.0.19045)
2024-05-11 15:55:24.786 INFO    APP (Main): Application revision: 233990
2024-05-11 15:55:24.786 INFO    APP (Main): Renderer revision: 24955
2024-05-11 15:55:24.786 INFO    APP (Main): Terrain revision: 25070
2024-05-11 15:55:24.786 INFO    APP (Main): Build number: 98
2024-05-11 15:55:24.786 INFO    APP (Main): CPU cores: 6, threads: 12, System RAM: 65457 MB, Pagefile: 16384 MB
=== Log closed.

[Flappie]

Try these steps:

 

[bngtech]

I have tried all of those other than updating windows and resetting windows. I have windows 10 pro x64 updated to the latest version, just not windows 11

[Flappie]

OK. Have you tried step B yet?

 

[bngtech]

Yes. I have two files in ./distr

 

vcredist_x64 and vc_redistx.64

 

Running vcredist_x64 I can click repair and it says setup sucessful but when  I try to run vc_redistx.64 it says setup failed error code 0x80070666 another version of product is already installed

 

Thanks for trying to help me.

[bngtech]

I did just uninstall the c++ 2022 redist from the control panel and installed the ones in the folder, still no luck just crashes to the desktop after appearing in task manager for about 10 seconds.

[Flappie]

Do you own an Oculus VR gear?