Random crashes after latest updates

[pimp]

Hi @Flappie, after the latest DCS and PiMax updates, also installing Iraq map, I am getting random CTD and BSOD crashes. After sending the attached crash report to ED I received a blue screen system crash. Is there anything in the logs that you see that's helpful. Also, speaking of Iraq, which I wish I can get a refund, I can barely fly on it. My frames are horrible mostly around the mountains and Baghdad. The crashes have been happening in the AFG map, which has been flawless up until recently. In the meantime, I'll continue testing on other maps. Please see my settings below and let me know if there's more info needed. Thanks in advance!!!

 

 

 

 

dcs.log-20250118-205426.zip dcs.log

[rob10]

You have a lot of setting pretty high, so I'd start with cutting back on those if you're having performance issues.  If you hover over the options they will show you how much hit you are taking.

But if you're getting BSOD in game, that's much more likely a hardware or Windows problem than a DCS problem.

And at the end you're getting a

# C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at 00007ffe076703a7 00:00000000

which is one that comes up but I haven't seen a specific fix for.

[pimp]

Thanks but my settings were working smoothly before this latest update. I just completed a mission in AFG which is good, however, I was getting really bad stutters for about 30 seconds every 5 minutes. No scripts or mods either.

[Flappie]

Hi @pimp. You shouldn't have this message in your log:

2025-01-18 19:48:41.624 WARNING EDCORE (Main): CPU HAS PARKED LOGICAL CORES (this can be source of stuttering and reduced performance especially on hybrid CPUs with P/E-cores)

Parking cores was a workaround for a DCS MT bug, but this bug got fixed in late 2024.

Try unparking all of your CPU cores. Also, don't use Process Lasso or anything else. Let your CPU do its thing.

Edited January 19 by Flappie

[currenthill]

13 minutes ago, Flappie said:

Hi @pimp. You shouldn't have this message in your log:

2025-01-18 19:48:41.624 WARNING EDCORE (Main): CPU HAS PARKED LOGICAL CORES (this can be source of stuttering and reduced performance especially on hybrid CPUs with P/E-cores)

Parking cores was a workaround for a DCS MT bug, but this bug got fixed in late 2024.

Try unparking all of your CPU cores. Also, don't use Process Lasso or anything else. Let your CPU do its thing.

This helped me. I had random crashes, so I uninstalled Process Lasso and made sure to unpark my CPU cores (I have a 13700K). DCS is running much, much better now. 

[pimp]

1 hour ago, Flappie said:

Hi @pimp. You shouldn't have this message in your log:

2025-01-18 19:48:41.624 WARNING EDCORE (Main): CPU HAS PARKED LOGICAL CORES (this can be source of stuttering and reduced performance especially on hybrid CPUs with P/E-cores)

Parking cores was a workaround for a DCS MT bug, but this bug got fixed in late 2024.

Try unparking all of your CPU cores. Also, don't use Process Lasso or anything else. Let your CPU do its thing.

hi @Flappie @currenthill, I no longer use PL since you told me it's no longer needed a few months ago. How do you "Unpark CPUs"?

[currenthill]

17 minutes ago, pimp said:

hi @Flappie @currenthill, I no longer use PL since you told me it's no longer needed a few months ago. How do you "Unpark CPUs"?

I used this tool.

https://bitsum.com/parkcontrol/

[pimp]

Hi @Flappie,

Just had a crash in the Iraq map going up a mountain near Bashir airport in the Apache. My frames started tanking with bad stutters and then DCS CTD'd. I am not seeing parked cores in this latest log. Is there anything you can see that caused the crash?

 

Thank in advance!!!

dcs.log dcs.log-20250125-190733.zip

[Flappie]

This is how it looks like:

2025-01-25 19:01:14.149 WARNING LOG (19392): 2 duplicate message(s) skipped.
2025-01-25 19:01:14.149 ERROR_ONCE DX11BACKEND (16032): texture 'MAP_AH64_PLT_R' not found. Asked from ''
2025-01-25 19:01:24.158 WARNING WORLD (Main): ModelTimeQuantizer: SAME MODEL TIME
2025-01-25 19:07:24.344 WARNING LOG (19392): 4 duplicate message(s) skipped.
2025-01-25 19:07:24.344 WARNING WORLD (Main): ModelTimeQuantizer: ANTIFREEZE ENABLED
2025-01-25 19:07:31.256 WARNING LOG (19392): 1 duplicate message(s) skipped.
2025-01-25 19:07:31.256 ERROR   DX11BACKEND (22436): Can't map structured buffer.
2025-01-25 19:07:31.256 ERROR   DX11BACKEND (22436): Failed assert `0`
2025-01-25 19:07:31.257 INFO    APP (Main): Device unplugged: [HDAUDIO] NVIDIA High Definition Audio
2025-01-25 19:07:31.259 ERROR   ED_SOUND (8928): IAudioClient::GetCurrentPadding failed: 0x88890004 (AUDCLNT_E_DEVICE_INVALIDATED)
2025-01-25 19:07:31.432 WARNING LOG (19392): 1 duplicate message(s) skipped.
2025-01-25 19:07:31.432 ERROR   VISUALIZER (22436): xrEndFrame failed with error: XR_ERROR_RUNTIME_FAILURE
2025-01-25 19:07:31.433 ERROR   DX11BACKEND (22436): DX device removed. Reason: 0x887A0006
2025-01-25 19:07:31.458 INFO    APP (Main): Device unplugged: [HDAUDIO] NVIDIA High Definition Audio
2025-01-25 19:07:31.775 WARNING LOG (19392): 2 duplicate message(s) skipped.
2025-01-25 19:07:31.775 INFO    APP (Main): Device unplugged: [SWD] ASUS VA24E (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)
2025-01-25 19:07:31.813 INFO    APP (Main): Device unplugged: [HDAUDIO] NVIDIA High Definition Audio
2025-01-25 19:07:32.041 WARNING LOG (19392): 3 duplicate message(s) skipped.
2025-01-25 19:07:32.041 INFO    APP (Main): Device unplugged: [SWD] Pimax (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)
2025-01-25 19:07:32.078 INFO    APP (Main): Device unplugged: [DISPLAY] @System32\drivers\dxgkrnl.sys,#303;Generic Monitor (%1);(ASUS VA24E)
2025-01-25 19:07:32.117 INFO    APP (Main): Device unplugged: [DISPLAY] @System32\drivers\dxgkrnl.sys,#303;Generic Monitor (%1);(G236HL)
2025-01-25 19:07:32.193 WARNING LOG (19392): 1 duplicate message(s) skipped.
2025-01-25 19:07:32.193 INFO    APP (Main): Device unplugged: [HDAUDIO] NVIDIA High Definition Audio
2025-01-25 19:07:32.272 WARNING LOG (19392): 1 duplicate message(s) skipped.
2025-01-25 19:07:32.272 INFO    APP (Main): Device plugged: [HDAUDIO] NVIDIA High Definition Audio
2025-01-25 19:07:32.652 WARNING LOG (19392): 5 duplicate message(s) skipped.
2025-01-25 19:07:32.652 INFO    APP (Main): Device unplugged: [DISPLAY] @System32\drivers\dxgkrnl.sys,#303;Generic Monitor (%1);(ASUS VA24E)
2025-01-25 19:07:32.723 WARNING LOG (19392): 1 duplicate message(s) skipped.
2025-01-25 19:07:32.723 INFO    APP (Main): Device unplugged: [DISPLAY] @System32\drivers\dxgkrnl.sys,#303;Generic Monitor (%1);(G236HL)
2025-01-25 19:07:32.862 WARNING LOG (19392): 3 duplicate message(s) skipped.
2025-01-25 19:07:32.862 INFO    APP (Main): Device plugged: [DISPLAY] @System32\drivers\dxgkrnl.sys,#303;Generic Monitor (%1);(G236HL)
2025-01-25 19:07:33.028 WARNING LOG (19392): 3 duplicate message(s) skipped.
2025-01-25 19:07:33.028 INFO    APP (Main): Device plugged: [DISPLAY] @System32\drivers\dxgkrnl.sys,#303;Generic Monitor (%1);(ASUS VA24E)
2025-01-25 19:07:33.068 WARNING WORLD (Main): ModelTimeQuantizer: ANTIFREEZE ENABLED
2025-01-25 19:07:33.071 INFO    ED_SOUND (Main): Opening default audio device.
2025-01-25 19:07:33.071 ERROR   DX11BACKEND (14128): Failed assert `false && "failed to create texture"`
2025-01-25 19:07:33.071 INFO    EDCORE (14128): try to write dump information
2025-01-25 19:07:33.071 INFO    ED_SOUND (Main): Speaker layout: auto
2025-01-25 19:07:33.072 INFO    ED_SOUND (Main): Driver reports 2 channels with mask 0x3
2025-01-25 19:07:33.072 INFO    ED_SOUND (Main): Using 2 channels at 48000 Hz
2025-01-25 19:07:33.072 INFO    ED_SOUND (Main): Channel layout: Headphones/Stereo
2025-01-25 19:07:33.089 INFO    EDCORE (14128): # -------------- 20250125-190733 --------------
2025-01-25 19:07:33.102 INFO    EDCORE (14128): DCS/2.9.12.5336 (x86_64; MT; Windows NT 10.0.26100)
2025-01-25 19:07:33.120 INFO    EDCORE (14128): C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin-mt\GraphicsCore.dll
2025-01-25 19:07:33.122 INFO    EDCORE (14128): # C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at 00007fff3a6514a2 00:00000000
2025-01-25 19:07:33.123 INFO    EDCORE (14128): SymInit: Symbol-SearchPath: 'C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin-mt;', symOptions: 532, UserName: 'genea'
2025-01-25 19:07:33.136 INFO    EDCORE (14128): OS-Version: 10.0.26100 () 0x100-0x1
2025-01-25 19:07:33.167 INFO    EDCORE (14128): 0x00000000000614a2 (GraphicsCore): render::RenderGraph::reset + 0x2352
2025-01-25 19:07:33.168 INFO    EDCORE (14128): 0x0000000000058037 (GraphicsCore): render::RenderGraph::createRenderablesCollection + 0x887
2025-01-25 19:07:33.169 INFO    EDCORE (14128): 0x0000000000054e96 (GraphicsCore): render::RenderGraph::bakeGraph + 0x1D6
2025-01-25 19:07:33.169 INFO    EDCORE (14128): 0x000000000001e854 (SceneRenderer): DCSSceneRenderer::bakeRenderGraph + 0x34
2025-01-25 19:07:33.169 INFO    EDCORE (14128): 0x00000000001570d5 (Visualizer): smCamera_Implement::getClipRegion + 0x1E555
2025-01-25 19:07:33.169 INFO    EDCORE (14128): 0x0000000000047a89 (edCore): ed::SyncTaskQueue::push_task + 0x14449
2025-01-25 19:07:33.169 INFO    EDCORE (14128): 0x0000000000046f87 (edCore): ed::SyncTaskQueue::push_task + 0x13947
2025-01-25 19:07:33.169 INFO    EDCORE (14128): 0x0000000000048833 (edCore): ed::SyncTaskQueue::push_task + 0x151F3
2025-01-25 19:07:33.169 INFO    EDCORE (14128): 0x00000000000323b1 (edCore): ed::thread::_get_current_thread_id + 0x71
2025-01-25 19:07:33.169 INFO    EDCORE (14128): 0x0000000000014ea0 (ucrtbase): wcsrchr + 0x1F0
2025-01-25 19:07:33.169 INFO    EDCORE (14128): 0x000000000002e8d7 (KERNEL32): BaseThreadInitThunk + 0x17
2025-01-25 19:07:33.286 INFO    EDCORE (14128): Minidump created.

 

The relevant line is here:

2025-01-25 19:07:31.432 ERROR   VISUALIZER (22436): xrEndFrame failed with error: XR_ERROR_RUNTIME_FAILURE

Ensure you don't have any remnant of the Open Kneeboard in Windows registry:

 

[pimp]

Thanks@Flappie but I don't have anything in my registry like this. I even ran the OpenXR Layer GUI app and nothing showed up.

[pimp]

Here's another crash about 30-40 mins into a mission on the Syria map in the Apache.

dcs.log dcs.log-20250127-003933.zip

[pimp]

Unfortunately, here's another crash log around 30-40 mins into a mission on the Afghan map in the Viper. I changed my settings to run DLSS version 3.8.10.

dcs.log dcs.log-20250127-050027.zip

[Flappie]

You seem to have very different crash messages. This makes me think your issue could be related to a RAM issue.

But before that, if you haven't tried yet, try a DCS cleanup and a DCS repair first.

You should scan your RAM using MemTestt86:

 

If you don't find issues after all this, you should open a support ticket on DCS website:

1. Log in.
2. Click Support.
3. Click Create a new ticket.

[pimp]

On 1/27/2025 at 9:12 AM, Flappie said:

You seem to have very different crash messages. This makes me think your issue could be related to a RAM issue.

But before that, if you haven't tried yet, try a DCS cleanup and a DCS repair first.

You should scan your RAM using MemTestt86:

 

If you don't find issues after all this, you should open a support ticket on DCS website:

1. Log in.
2. Click Support.
3. Click Create a new ticket.

Hi @Flappie,

So I ran the memory tester. On the first run I made sure XMP was enabled in my BIOS, then ran the mem test and it failed within a few minutes with a bunch of errors. So the second time I disabled XMP and it passed but it ran for 4 hours and 50 minutes. Is it necessary to do another run? If so, with or without XMP?

[Flappie]

You can try a lower XMP setting if you like, and see if MemTest keeps seeing issues. If it does, try DCS with XMP off and report back.