PatMcKrotch Posted February 9 Posted February 9 Hello, I'm using a quest 3 via steamVR wireless link. The game loads fine in multiplayer and after a few minutes, the game freezes, my PC fans spool down, PC freezes and when it comes back I get the bug reporting tool popping up. This started after the last update as it was fine before. PC Specs 9800X3d X870E Asus Hero 96 GB DDR5 DDR5 8000 (PC5 64000) 2TB NVME Seagate Firecuda Asus 4090 Running AI overclock via armoury Crate Discord OBS (streaming Software) SRS USB wattage watcher (ASUS) Lian Li L Connect 3 (For CPU Fan Control Left on Full SP for DCS, other fans spool down, not these) Simapp pro And google chrome for music and streaming to youtube. It happened while I was live streaming and when I wasn't, I'm also listening to music on a web browser as well. DxDiag.txt dcs.log
sleighzy Posted February 10 Posted February 10 Log is spammed with DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED errors. Generally a GPU issue of some description. Dropped your log into the DCS log analyzer which verified the same. There is a GPU-related error Remove any overclocking from your GPU. Some GPUs may come with a factory overclock, you can confirm whether or not this is the case with MSI Afterburner Uninstall your GPU driver with DDU and install a clean one. See also this DCS FAQ article on it: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/support/faq/startup/#3312253 You also have a dxgi.dll file in the DCS bin folder. I'm aware of only two reason why this would be placed there, this does not ship with the game. Remove that as well as it has been known to cause crashes. It may be fine if you resolve the other GPU issue, however I would recommend trying that. Some additional tuning advice. The SSAO and SSLR are a performance hit with little benefit. Turn off SSAO. Turn off Depth of Field. Disable civil traffic. Turn off SSLR. I see you also have the VirtualDesktop API layer, any reason you're not using that vs. SteamLink? Will be more performant and less VRAM overhead than that introduced by SteamVR. AMD 7800x3D, 4080Super, 64Gb DDR5 RAM, 4Tb NVMe M.2, Quest 2
PatMcKrotch Posted February 15 Author Posted February 15 On 2/9/2025 at 8:21 PM, sleighzy said: Log is spammed with DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED errors. Generally a GPU issue of some description. Dropped your log into the DCS log analyzer which verified the same. There is a GPU-related error Remove any overclocking from your GPU. Some GPUs may come with a factory overclock, you can confirm whether or not this is the case with MSI Afterburner Uninstall your GPU driver with DDU and install a clean one. See also this DCS FAQ article on it: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/support/faq/startup/#3312253 You also have a dxgi.dll file in the DCS bin folder. I'm aware of only two reason why this would be placed there, this does not ship with the game. Remove that as well as it has been known to cause crashes. It may be fine if you resolve the other GPU issue, however I would recommend trying that. Some additional tuning advice. The SSAO and SSLR are a performance hit with little benefit. Turn off SSAO. Turn off Depth of Field. Disable civil traffic. Turn off SSLR. I see you also have the VirtualDesktop API layer, any reason you're not using that vs. SteamLink? Will be more performant and less VRAM overhead than that introduced by SteamVR. I finally got some time off work to play around with this. Driver uninstalled with DDU, driver reinstalled (however NVidia did release a new Driver) Updated the bios Installed MSI afterburner, confirmed no GPU overclock Anyway, thank you and the steps above worked. dcs.log 1
PatMcKrotch Posted March 3 Author Posted March 3 Aaaaannnnd Crashing again. FML DDU no longer helping Verified No OC on the GPU Tried via virtual desktop and SteamVR What's different, NEW DCS Update New GPU Driver dcs.log DxDiag.txt
PatMcKrotch Posted March 4 Author Posted March 4 Nevermind, Happened in desktop mode too. Right after I switched from the F10 Map, which is what I've been doing when it crashes in VR. dcs.log
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