fixed Game stuck at loading screen "Spawn Object"

ebabil · January 24

1 hour ago, Blinde said:

At first I deleted the input folder, then I tried deleting the whole dcs.openbeta folder from the saved games. Then repair and the problem was still there. Reinstalled everything from the scratch (which apparently was pointless) and started the game without any mods and with just keyboard installed. And the game hangs.

AI planes load just fine, but cockpit seems to be the issue. And it's not consisted, sometimes it miraculously loads just fine with my orion 2 hotas. But most of the time it just hangs on "spawn objects". Sometimes waiting up to 15min works, rarely alt+tab to taskmanager works. Tried Logviewer too but it gave me pretty much same results as looking through the dcs.log.

This must be an bug related to MP spawn issue since these appear to be same kind.

Exact same thing

It is not just mp, but also mission editor etc

ebabil · January 24

it is definetly input folder. game works without it

MAXsenna · January 24

it is definetly input folder. game works without it

Then it must be some corruption happening later on.

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ebabil · January 24

Yeah Ed needs to find a solution

MAXsenna · January 24

Yeah Ed needs to find a solution

Agree! You could try Quaggles for kicks, just to test if it helps.

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Blinde · January 25

It has something to do with loading .dll files. It take takes a long time to load those. This is most likely the same bug as the MP slot selection bug where game hangs.

If you set plane as client instead of player on mission editor, it loads the mission just fine, but as soon you load the slot, it hangs.

I'm using Win11 with 24H2 update.

Edited January 25 by Blinde

MAXsenna · January 25

It has something to do with loading .dll files. It take takes a long time to load those. This is most likely the same bug as the MP slot selection bug where game hangs.
If you set plane as client instead of player on mission editor, it loads the mission just fine, but as soon you load the slot, it hangs.
I'm using Win11 with 24H2 update.

Another user had an issue the other day. All his modules were disabled, like what happens with AV. He had the correct exclusions in place. He removed them, and then re-added them, did a repair, and all was fine. Worth to try?

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Blinde · January 25

1 hour ago, MAXsenna said:

Another user had an issue the other day. All his modules were disabled, like what happens with AV. He had the correct exclusions in place. He removed them, and then re-added them, did a repair, and all was fine. Worth to try?

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I'll give it a shot. I already removed exclusions and added them back.

Blinde · January 25

Tried again with exclusions and repair and it hangs like before. It's about the .dll files, according to dcs.log.

edit. Yeah, did some tests and it definitely hangs on loading FA18C.dll for example if I choose the hornet.

@Flappie Any change to notify this to ED?

Edited January 25 by Blinde

Flappie · January 25

At first, I was all alone, so I didn't think about reporting this issue.

I'll report it.

skywalker22 · January 27

My game does not hang completely. Instead I have 3 to 4 minutes of mission loading time when I load it for the 1st time (each new mission). If I load the same mission for 2nd or more times, loading time reduces to 10-15 seconds! Go figure what is holding back the mission to load for the 1st time. I tried lots of things, even with a help of @Special K in the past, but so far nothing seemed to help.

ebabil · January 27

yesterday I played without problem then I quitted the game, played some MSFS then run the DCS again. And well, hung at "spawn object".

Renamed input folder didn't help either. Then I restarted the PC, run DCS and it worked. Restored old input folder, re-run DCS and it worked again.

This is getting insane...

gulredrel · January 27

Add me to the club. Also frequently getting the application hanging at "spawn objects" when loading mission from ME since December.
Tried repair but nothing helped, also removed only mod (A-4E) that I had installed.

Alt + Tab in and out often helps to get going but not every time. Currently loading stopped again at "World Start"

edit: Same mission without changing anything started just fine after closing and re-opening DCS. Totally random to me as to when and why this happens. In the log file you can just see the idle time when between waiting, using alt + tab and then it resumes. Nothing special in between.

Edited January 27 by gulredrel

gulredrel · January 28

[...]
2025-01-28 08:42:13.350 ERROR   ED_SOUND (13640): can't load wave: "effects/weapons/automatic/warrior_distant_2.wav"
2025-01-28 08:42:13.350 ERROR   ED_SOUND (13640): can't load wave: "effects/weapons/automatic/warrior_distant_3.wav"
[here a pressed alt + tab to go to windows to open the dcs.log and it continued to load the mission]
2025-01-28 08:44:33.678 INFO    EDCORE (Main): Loaded F:/DCS_World_OpenBeta/Mods/aircraft/AH-64D/bin/AH64D.dll
2025-01-28 08:44:33.681 ERROR_ONCE DX11BACKEND (1376): texture '/textures//liveries/ah-64d_blk_ii/1st_bat_greek_pegasus_es1008/ah-64d_chassis_roughmet' not found. Asked from ''
[...]

This was in Syria map loading the mission from ME.

fullcoupe · January 28

Same issue here since ~mid-December. I usually have to kill DCS once or twice and then it will load, however regardless of the attempt, it stays stuck at 'spawn objects' for at least 5 minutes or more. The alt-tab or click-out trick does not work for me at all.

FWIW I just reinstalled Windows and DCS from scratch (for another reason) and I still encounter the same problem. Today I went to load a basic flight just an F-16 in Nevada, no mods or anything. And it hung for probably 15 minutes.

Attached a log if someone wants to look.

dcs.txt

Blinde · January 28

2 hours ago, fullcoupe said:

Same issue here since ~mid-December. I usually have to kill DCS once or twice and then it will load, however regardless of the attempt, it stays stuck at 'spawn objects' for at least 5 minutes or more. The alt-tab or click-out trick does not work for me at all.

FWIW I just reinstalled Windows and DCS from scratch (for another reason) and I still encounter the same problem. Today I went to load a basic flight just an F-16 in Nevada, no mods or anything. And it hung for probably 15 minutes.

Attached a log if someone wants to look.

dcs.txt 70.24 kB · 1 download

Do you have Win11 and 24H2 update?

My game also started this behavior in december.

fullcoupe · January 29

18 hours ago, Blinde said:

Do you have Win11 and 24H2 update?

My game also started this behavior in december.

Yes I do.

WaffenCat · February 1

Con

В 26.01.2025 в 01:22, Flappie сказал:

At first, I was all alone, so I didn't think about reporting this issue.

I'll report it.

Confirm this problem...

ebabil · February 3

any news? game completely stopped working with input folder.

since ED doesn't seem to be caring, we can share our experiences here.

rob10 · February 4

3 hours ago, ebabil said:

any news? game completely stopped working with input folder.

since ED doesn't seem to be caring, we can share our experiences here.

Can't be just Win 11, 24H2. I'm on Win 11 PRO 24H2 on a new setup I just got and not seeing any issues.

On 1/28/2025 at 3:20 PM, fullcoupe said:

Same issue here since ~mid-December. I usually have to kill DCS once or twice and then it will load, however regardless of the attempt, it stays stuck at 'spawn objects' for at least 5 minutes or more. The alt-tab or click-out trick does not work for me at all.

FWIW I just reinstalled Windows and DCS from scratch (for another reason) and I still encounter the same problem. Today I went to load a basic flight just an F-16 in Nevada, no mods or anything. And it hung for probably 15 minutes.

Attached a log if someone wants to look.

dcs.txt 70.24 kB · 8 downloads

In your case you only have 32GB RAM and you've only got 5 GB pagefile. Bumping your pagefile to 32GB max/min should help you out.

Flappie · February 5

Gents, can you please try this?

If you already have a file named autoexec.cfg in "Saved Games/DCS/Config", edit it and add this line:

no_device_hotplug = true

And if you don't have such a file, here is it.

Does it change anything for you?

autoexec.cfg

skywalker22 · February 5

9 hours ago, Flappie said:
Gents, can you please try this?

If you already have a file named autoexec.cfg in "Saved Games/DCS/Config", edit it and add this line:
no_device_hotplug = true
And if you don't have such a file, here is it.

Does it change anything for you?

autoexec.cfg 24 B · 5 downloads

Seems that it indeed works. I ran DCS 4 times (also restared pc twice) and always took me 10-15sec to start the mission. There was maybe only 2-3 seconds of waiting on Spawn Objects.

At least it works for me for now.

If this is it, what does it mean @Flappie?

sleighzy · February 6

20 hours ago, Flappie said:
Gents, can you please try this?

If you already have a file named autoexec.cfg in "Saved Games/DCS/Config", edit it and add this line:
no_device_hotplug = true
And if you don't have such a file, here is it.

Does it change anything for you?

autoexec.cfg 24 B · 2 downloads

Super interesting. How does this differ from say disabling hotplug devices in the DCS controls settings?

Blinde · February 6

20 hours ago, Flappie said:
Gents, can you please try this?

If you already have a file named autoexec.cfg in "Saved Games/DCS/Config", edit it and add this line:
no_device_hotplug = true
And if you don't have such a file, here is it.

Does it change anything for you?

autoexec.cfg 24 B · 7 downloads

This might have resolved my issue. Tried it twice and it didn't stuck at spawn objects. Promising. I'll continue my tests when I have more time.

Flappie · February 6

12 hours ago, sleighzy said:

How does this differ from say disabling hotplug devices in the DCS controls settings?

I don't know.

23 hours ago, skywalker22 said:

At least it works for me for now.

If this is it, what does it mean @Flappie?

Let's wait for a few more days. If everybody here confirm that this workaround works, it will help devs locate the issue.

@ebabil Can you please try the aforementioned workaround?

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