FA-18C Laser guided bombs not working after update / game crashes when clicking RET

[Slovak84]

Laser guided bombs not working on FA-18C after the last update. Bombs setup as normal.. (Auto) (Fuse Instant). Bomb codes match FLIR UFC codes...  Laser is armed... when I drop in auto mode, at the release point... the laser has a long countdown, The higher the altitude the longer the countdown... sometime 50+ seconds, bombs pass the target area as the laser will not fire due to the long countdown. Bombs were working fine before the update. Also, Mavericks (AGM 65) fires and tracks, but do not detonate on target impact. Last bug is always a crash to desktop. When clicking AG mode. sensors page on left DDI, when clicking the middle Pylon (RET) the game crashes.... Have tried to re-arm the payload. still crashes... 

Even loaded up a training mission using Laser guided bombs and they still do not work.

Edited January 3 by Slovak84

[BIGNEWY]

Hi and welcome to the forum. 

please attach the crash zip folder here, it should give us some clues. 

Go to C:\Users\Username\Saved Games\DCS\logs

You will see a zipped file for a crash.

thank you 

 

[rob10]

17 hours ago, Slovak84 said:

Laser guided bombs not working on FA-18C after the last update. Bombs setup as normal.. (Auto) (Fuse Instant). Bomb codes match FLIR UFC codes...  Laser is armed... when I drop in auto mode, at the release point... the laser has a long countdown, The higher the altitude the longer the countdown... sometime 50+ seconds, bombs pass the target area as the laser will not fire due to the long countdown. Bombs were working fine before the update. Also, Mavericks (AGM 65) fires and tracks, but do not detonate on target impact. Last bug is always a crash to desktop. When clicking AG mode. sensors page on left DDI, when clicking the middle Pylon (RE) the game crashes.... Have tried to re-arm the payload. still crashes... 

Even loaded up a training mission using Laser guided bombs and they still do not work.

And post a track of your LGB issue, because I used them yesterday with no issues whatsoever.

[Slovak84]

Here is the log file of the DCS crash when clicking middle pylon (RET). I will post a track of the Laser guided bomb issue in a few...

dcs.log-20250103-223440.zip

Edited January 3 by Slovak84

[sleighzy]

On 1/4/2025 at 11:39 AM, Slovak84 said:

Here is the log file of the DCS crash when clicking middle pylon (RET). I will post a track of the Laser guided bomb issue in a few...

dcs.log-20250103-223440.zip 316.52 kB · 9 downloads

You have a number of mods, some of which are known to cause issues. Please remove your mods, run a slow repair of the game, delete your Saved Games\DCS\fxo and metashaders2 folders, and then try again.

In addition to this your preload radius is set to 150000 which is really high and you're unnecessarily loading a lot of stuff. The DCS log analyzer recommended to drop that to 60000, as well as turning off SSAO which is a performance hit with little benefit.

Looks like there is a track (.trk) file in that zip already so may or may not (if crashed without a chance to write this correctly) be from this occurrence.

[Slovak84]

Thanks for the reply, will try these steps and respond.