Game Freezes After Selecting Aircraft Slot

[Lasko]

Not specific to any aircraft, game hangs for more than three minutes after drawing the first part of the cockpit display.  It doesn't appear to be doing anything and Windows says "Not Responding."  After 3:48 it carried on as if nothing happened.  This seems to happen the first time selecting an aircraft slot after joining the server.

2024-09-01 17:23:53.268 INFO    EDCORE (Main): Loaded E:/DCS World/Mods/aircraft/Mi-8MTV2/bin/Mi8.dll
2024-09-01 17:23:54.399 INFO    EDCORE (Main): Loaded E:/DCS World/Mods/aircraft/Mi-8MTV2/bin/CockpitMi8.dll
2024-09-01 17:23:54.704 INFO    APP (Main): Skip deleteDynGroupByUnitID, its not dynamic slot unit
2024-09-01 17:23:54.704 ERROR   Lua::Config (Main): Call error release_player_slot:bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil).
2024-09-01 17:23:56.373 INFO    LuaNET (Main): Trying to Launch SRS @ E:\DCS World\DCS-SimpleRadio-Standalone
2024-09-01 17:23:57.578 INFO    EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41 (22136):     surface5 gc() LOD 0 40 squares
2024-09-01 17:23:57.584 INFO    EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41 (22136):     surface5 gc() LOD 1 148 squares
2024-09-01 17:23:57.586 INFO    EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41 (22136):     surface5 gc() LOD 2 104 squares
2024-09-01 17:23:57.586 INFO    EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41 (22136):     surface5 gc() LOD 3 101 squares
2024-09-01 17:23:57.586 INFO    EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41 (22136): surface5 gc() 14.682400 ms
2024-09-01 17:23:59.213 INFO    APP (Main): MissionSpawn:spawnLocalPlayer 567,Mi-8MT
2024-09-01 17:23:59.365 INFO    VISUALIZER (14844): ILV loaded  for /models/Cockpit_Mi-8MT.edm.ilv
2024-09-01 17:23:59.366 INFO    ENLIGHT (14844): get cockpit shading params from /models/Cockpit_Mi-8MT.edm.lua
2024-09-01 17:23:59.392 INFO    COCKPITBASE (Main): WebRTC VOIP init: registered radio receiver/transmitter "JADRO_1A" with id - 0
2024-09-01 17:23:59.392 INFO    COCKPITBASE (Main): WebRTC VOIP init: enabled VOIP capability for radio JADRO_1A
2024-09-01 17:23:59.396 INFO    COCKPITBASE (Main): WebRTC VOIP init: registered radio receiver/transmitter "R_863" with id - 1
2024-09-01 17:23:59.396 INFO    COCKPITBASE (Main): WebRTC VOIP init: enabled VOIP capability for radio R_863
2024-09-01 17:23:59.398 INFO    COCKPITBASE (Main): WebRTC VOIP init: registered radio receiver/transmitter "R_828" with id - 2
2024-09-01 17:23:59.398 INFO    COCKPITBASE (Main): WebRTC VOIP init: enabled VOIP capability for radio R_828
2024-09-01 17:23:59.399 INFO    COCKPITBASE (Main): WebRTC VOIP init: registered radio receiver "ARC_9" with id - 3
2024-09-01 17:23:59.400 INFO    COCKPITBASE (Main): WebRTC VOIP init: registered radio receiver "ARC_UD" with id - 4
2024-09-01 17:23:59.555 WARNING COCKPITBASE (Main): no livery for ns430 , mirrors and MFDs can be broken 
2024-09-01 17:23:59.567 INFO    JSAVIONICS (Main): initState OK
2024-09-01 17:23:59.570 INFO    COCKPITBASE (Main): WebRTC VOIP init: registered radio receiver/transmitter "GNS430_Radio" with id - 5
2024-09-01 17:23:59.761 INFO    COCKPITBASE (Main): lua state still active SPU_7, 36 (status undefined)
2024-09-01 17:23:59.761 INFO    COCKPITBASE (Main): lua state still active JADRO_1A, 37
2024-09-01 17:23:59.761 INFO    COCKPITBASE (Main): lua state still active R_863, 38 (status undefined)
2024-09-01 17:23:59.761 INFO    COCKPITBASE (Main): lua state still active R_828, 39 (status undefined)
2024-09-01 17:23:59.761 INFO    COCKPITBASE (Main): lua state still active MACROS, 44 (status undefined)
2024-09-01 17:23:59.762 INFO    COCKPITBASE (Main): lua state still active EXTERNAL_CARGO_VIEW, 59 (status undefined)
2024-09-01 17:23:59.790 INFO    COCKPITBASE (Main): lua state still active GNS430, 1 (status undefined)
2024-09-01 17:23:59.790 INFO    COCKPITBASE (Main): lua state still active GNS430_Radio, 3
2024-09-01 17:23:59.791 INFO    JSAVIONICS (Main): initState OK
2024-09-01 17:24:00.364 INFO    JSAVIONICS (Main): loaded 129562 nav aids
2024-09-01 17:24:01.511 INFO    JSAVIONICS (Main): loaded 146684 cities
2024-09-01 17:24:01.520 INFO    WORLDGENERAL (Main): loaded from mission Scripts/World/birds.lua
2024-09-01 17:24:01.623 ERROR_ONCE DX11BACKEND (6584): texture 'NS430_1' not found. Asked from ''
2024-09-01 17:24:01.623 INFO    EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41 (22136):     surface5 gc() LOD 0 6 squares
2024-09-01 17:24:01.624 INFO    EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41 (22136):     surface5 gc() LOD 1 26 squares
2024-09-01 17:24:01.625 INFO    EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41 (22136):     surface5 gc() LOD 2 14 squares
2024-09-01 17:24:01.625 INFO    EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41 (22136):     surface5 gc() LOD 3 10 squares
2024-09-01 17:24:01.625 INFO    EDTERRAINGRAPHICS41 (22136): surface5 gc() 2.426800 ms
2024-09-01 17:24:02.477 WARNING BACKENDCOMMON (8840): Need to reprocess [DDS] image '/textures/m8mtv_cpt_glass_norm.dds'. Reason: Conversion requires - expanded pixel size, setting alpha to known value. Source is an 8:8:8 (24bpp) format
2024-09-01 17:27:50.642 INFO    DXGUI_WIN_ADAPTER (Main): resize main window to [1920, 1080]
2024-09-01 17:27:50.784 WARNING Mission (Main): register_unit(70666,18252801) : db.units['70666'] table is missing
2024-09-01 17:27:50.785 WARNING Mission (Main): register_unit(70667,18253057) : db.units['70667'] table is missing
2024-09-01 17:27:50.790 WARNING Mission (Main): register_unit(70668,18253313) : db.units['70668'] table is missing
2024-09-01 17:27:50.812 INFO    ASYNCNET (Main): Current ping: 80.3ms

 

[The_Nephilim]

can you please post the DCS.logs nd sys specs and maybe a trk file?

[Lasko]

I haven't been able to reliably recreate this or get a good track file.  I also disabled Supercarrier again to mitigate the issues with the slot list reshuffling and freezing which seems also to be related.  I was hoping this was something already reported, if I can get something definitive I will add it here.

[Lasko]

I don't have a track for this because so far they've been way too big to upload or use.  But I have figured out something, maybe?  If I join an MP server, then am in an observer slot for some length of time (don't have a min/max estimate), then on selecting an aircraft slot the game freezes for a length time that might be proportional to the length of time being observer.  At least that's my conclusion so far.  Now that I've figured that out I'll try to get a track, or at least better examples.

[Lasko]

This was much easier to reproduce than I thought.  The attached track is from an MP mission (Nevada) that I have for testing.  For this track I started the mission, waited at the faction selection screen for 20 minutes, then when joining the aircraft slot the game freezes for 50 seconds.  If I select an aircraft slot right away it works as normal.  The freeze happens right here in the log:

2024-11-18 21:44:04.488 WARNING BACKENDCOMMON (66212): Need to reprocess [DDS] image '/textures/m8mtv_cpt_glass_norm.dds'. Reason: Conversion requires - expanded pixel size, setting alpha to known value. Source is an 8:8:8 (24bpp) format
2024-11-18 21:44:54.278 INFO    DXGUI_WIN_ADAPTER (Main): resize main window to [1920, 1080]

 

server-20241118-132257.trk dcs.log

[Lasko]

This no longer happens with 2.9.11.4686.