Protocol Errors

[Dogman]

Hi Guys

Recently I have had increased DCS game crashes and after the game crashes I get box that comes up saying Protocol Error. I have searched that in this forum but did not see reports of the same problem with other users. Have played DCS for many years and have had the occasional crash before where a crash report is generated however this Protocol Error only started in the last few months and is becoming more frequent and I have had no major change to hardware or software during that time. Unfortunately a formal crash report is not created but I did find the attached files in the Logs folder which may have some clues in them. 

Greatly appreciate any suggestions on what the root cause of this new issue is and what actions I can take to resolve it.

Many thanks

debrief.log dcs.log

[silverdevil]

14 hours ago, Dogman said:

Hi Guys

Recently I have had increased DCS game crashes and after the game crashes I get box that comes up saying Protocol Error. I have searched that in this forum but did not see reports of the same problem with other users. Have played DCS for many years and have had the occasional crash before where a crash report is generated however this Protocol Error only started in the last few months and is becoming more frequent and I have had no major change to hardware or software during that time. Unfortunately a formal crash report is not created but I did find the attached files in the Logs folder which may have some clues in them. 

Greatly appreciate any suggestions on what the root cause of this new issue is and what actions I can take to resolve it.

Many thanks

hello. i searched too and did not find much and no solved topics. i did see mention of checking to see if IPv6 is enabled on your network you use to connect to Internet.

 

[Dogman]

Thanks for the reply silverdevil but I checked and my system only runs IPv4 so the issue must be getting caused by something else. I can't believe that there is so little information about this extremely annoying problem .. I must just be lucky  

[silverdevil]

3 hours ago, Dogman said:

Thanks for the reply silverdevil but I checked and my system only runs IPv4 so the issue must be getting caused by something else. I can't believe that there is so little information about this extremely annoying problem .. I must just be lucky  

i believe you misunderstood. the ED member suggested enabling IPv6.

[Dogman]

Yes I did misunderstand. Will see what the pros and cons are for the enabling of the new IPv6 and see where I go from there thanks

[silverdevil]

14 hours ago, Dogman said:

Yes I did misunderstand. Will see what the pros and cons are for the enabling of the new IPv6 and see where I go from there thanks

i can assure you there are no consequences to enable IPv6 unless you disabled it for a known reason. many ISPs and routers are delivering IPv6 addresses. i personally have FIOS and my Ethernet and WiFi both have IPv6 addresses. and my DCS works great. 

of course it is your choice.

[Dogman]

Thanks for that however I have been advised that the Protocol Error issue is affecting many other players and that it has been acknowledged by the Devs as a DCS issue that will hopefully be fixed in the next update. I along with many others are looking forward to that.