DCS Crashing after installing F/A-18C module

[ForceScreamers]

Hi,

I have recently purchased the F-18 module during a sale and from the moment I installed it the game has been crashing consistently.

Sometimes its a "game has stopped responding" error, and other times its just stuttering and a crash to desktop.

I looked through the forums and reddit for about a week now and decided to request help since ive had no luck fixing this issue.

specs: GeForce RTX 3070, 32Gb RAM, i7-12700F

The game is running fine when disabling the F-18 module and using only the F-16 module.

what ive tried so far: 

- Updating GPU drivers

- Reinstalling DCS

- DCS cleanup 

- Removing any mods i had installed

- Setting custom Pagefile size

- Lowering graphics settings 

nothing works.

 

the game is installed on a 1TB NVMe ssd

attached below are 2 log files: the most recent log file and another one from about a week ago

 

Thanks in advance

log.txt log-recent.txt

[MAXsenna]

You need the DCS.log file from the Saved Games\DCS\logs folder.
Cheers!

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[ForceScreamers]

Yes these are the logs, no?

[MAXsenna]

Yes these are the logs, no?

No, the file name is DCS.log

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[HC_Official]

28 minutes ago, ForceScreamers said:

Yes these are the logs, no?

yes they are, but not sure what is going wrong (apart from a lot of errors about mods in saved games)

maybe 

1. Remove the mods from saved games

2. try a DCS repair   or if on steam verify game files

 

@MAXsenna  i think he renamed them

Edited April 1 by HC_Official

[ForceScreamers]

Yea i renamed them

3 hours ago, HC_Official said:

yes they are, but not sure what is going wrong (apart from a lot of errors about mods in saved games)

maybe 

1. Remove the mods from saved games

2. try a DCS repair   or if on steam verify game files

Will try, thanks!

[silverdevil]

@ForceScreamers on top of what the others have said it looks like to me you are running the sim as administrator. you should not do this. the sim is looking for things in the saved games of administrator user.

one example of evidence.

2025-03-26 13:18:06.688 ALERT   Scripting (Main): loadfile: no file 'C:\Users\Administrator\Saved Games\DCS\CoreMods/aircraft/AircraftWeaponPack/common_definitions.lua'

[sleighzy]

There are no crashes in the DCS log file, which would indicate that Windows may be killing the process. Run the Windows DxDiag tool, save the output report, and attach that here as well.

Additional notes from the DCS log analyzer. Note the disabling of the of hot plugging. You have a bunch of unplug events in your logs for your devices. If hot plugging in DCS controls is already disabled then may be a usb power issue, e.g. use a powered usb hub and disable the power management in Windows for your usb controllers in device manager.

Hot plug Events

• Disable hot plug in your CONTROLS section.

Advice

• The log file shows core parking which can lead to performance issues and stuttering. Upgrade your OS to Windows 11 to better support your CPU or disable cores 16,17,18,19 in Windows or Process Lasso. Those are the efficiency cores, disabling them will mean DCS is using the performance cores.

I noticed the DCS log analyzer now has slightly different output for the above than it previously did. Windows 11 has better support for cores, additionally check and disable core parking if it is on.

Tuning Tips

• Turn off Depth of Field.
• Set Preload Radius to max. 60000.
• Turn down Anisotropic Filtering.
• Consider using DLAA.
• Set Water to Low.

Edited April 1 by sleighzy

[MAXsenna]

5 hours ago, HC_Official said:

@MAXsenna  i think he renamed them

Aaaaah! Thanks. 

@ForceScreamers Apologies, I didn't even consider you did that.

In case you don't know, you can just drag and drop them as they are into your post. Makes a little easier.  

Cheers! 

[ForceScreamers]

16 hours ago, sleighzy said:

There are no crashes in the DCS log file, which would indicate that Windows may be killing the process. Run the Windows DxDiag tool, save the output report, and attach that here as well.

Additional notes from the DCS log analyzer. Note the disabling of the of hot plugging. You have a bunch of unplug events in your logs for your devices. If hot plugging in DCS controls is already disabled then may be a usb power issue, e.g. use a powered usb hub and disable the power management in Windows for your usb controllers in device manager.

Hot plug Events

• Disable hot plug in your CONTROLS section.

Advice

• The log file shows core parking which can lead to performance issues and stuttering. Upgrade your OS to Windows 11 to better support your CPU or disable cores 16,17,18,19 in Windows or Process Lasso. Those are the efficiency cores, disabling them will mean DCS is using the performance cores.

I noticed the DCS log analyzer now has slightly different output for the above than it previously did. Windows 11 has better support for cores, additionally check and disable core parking if it is on.

Tuning Tips

• Turn off Depth of Field.
• Set Preload Radius to max. 60000.
• Turn down Anisotropic Filtering.
• Consider using DLAA.
• Set Water to Low.

Thanks a lot man!!! I added the autoexec.cfg for disabling the hot plugging and tuned the settings and it worked! Btw my windows user has admin privileges i don't know if i can remove them.

 

Thanks to everyone for your input! first time on this forum and never expected a response this fast. Great community : )

Edited April 2 by ForceScreamers

[MAXsenna]

Thanks a lot man!!! I added the autoexec.cfg for disabling the hot plugging and tuned the settings and it worked! Btw my windows user has admin privileges i don't know if i can remove them.
 
Thanks to everyone for your input! first time on this forum and never expected a response this fast. Great community : )

It's not about your user having administrative rights, it's about DCS running as the Windows Administrator.
Right click the shourtcut/exe and select properties, then uncheck the "Run as administrator" checkbox.

Cheers!

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