Game crashes when trying to start a mission on a dedicated server

[Gunfreak]

And it's dcs that crashes not the server. If I start the same mission in singleplayer. It works. But when joining my own server. The game crashes on or after coalition select.

I don't get a crash file/zip. But I did send the crash through the crash reporting system.

 

Edit, it seems to be related to the CWG map, I took a mission from Kola map, and the server and everything worked. So It's CWG related

Edited Tuesday at 12:03 PM by Gunfreak

[BIGNEWY]

please add the dcs log from the crash so we can look for clues. 

If you are using unofficial mods it will be a good idea to try without them. 

thank you 

[Gunfreak]

12 minutes ago, BIGNEWY said:

please add the dcs log from the crash so we can look for clues. 

If you are using unofficial mods it will be a good idea to try without them. 

thank you 

dcs.log

[BIGNEWY]

Thanks have you modified your server.lua at all?

The Integrity Check failed
Delete all unofficial mods and do a repair of DCS.

 

Error
unfinished string near '"F-5E-3 = {'
Line
170
Script
Config/View/Server.lua

Error
unfinished string near '"F-5E-3 = {'
Line
170
Script
C:\Users\truls\Saved Games\DCS\Config/View/Server.lua

are you sure that is the dcs log from the crash? You can also attach the zip folder created after the crash.

[Gunfreak]

1 hour ago, BIGNEWY said:

Thanks have you modified your server.lua at all?

The Integrity Check failed
Delete all unofficial mods and do a repair of DCS.

 

Error
unfinished string near '"F-5E-3 = {'
Line
170
Script
Config/View/Server.lua

Error
unfinished string near '"F-5E-3 = {'
Line
170
Script
C:\Users\truls\Saved Games\DCS\Config/View/Server.lua

are you sure that is the dcs log from the crash? You can also attach the zip folder created after the crash.

As I said no crash dump is made. 

I did a repair and never had any mods, and it still crashes when selecting blue or red side. 

I uninstalled the entire dedicated install, thinking if I installed the CWG map with the full install, it might fix it. But CWG map isn't part of the install yet.

[Gunfreak]

7 hours ago, BIGNEWY said:

Thanks have you modified your server.lua at all?

The Integrity Check failed
Delete all unofficial mods and do a repair of DCS.

 

Error
unfinished string near '"F-5E-3 = {'
Line
170
Script
Config/View/Server.lua

Error
unfinished string near '"F-5E-3 = {'
Line
170
Script
C:\Users\truls\Saved Games\DCS\Config/View/Server.lua

are you sure that is the dcs log from the crash? You can also attach the zip folder created after the crash.

I finally got a zip

dcs.log-20250422-194436.zip

[sleighzy]

2 hours ago, Gunfreak said:

I finally got a zip

dcs.log-20250422-194436.zip 610.09 kB · 1 download

I dropped your zip into the DCS log analyzer and got the following output:

Memory Timing Issues

• Remove any overclocking (XMP) from your RAM.

Your System ran out of Memory

• Increase RAM or add a custom page file 

Your GPU ran out of VRAM

• Reduce Terrain Textures and Shadows. Doublecheck your pagefile.

Given the amount of RAM you have on your system, and your video card, this can be a little unexpected. However this is definitely evident in the log file. I would recommend deleting the Saved Games\DCS\fxo and metashaders2 folders as there have been occurrences in the past with older cached textures causing out of memory errors even with systems with large amounts of VRAM and RAM.

 

Disable core parking.

Additional advice:

Verify that this is configured correctly in Windows:

• Game Mode disabled
• Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling disabled
• Core Isolation disabled

Remove the OH6GunnerExport script for performance reasons.

 

Follow the above, see if this resolves anything, and if not then drop another log file.

Note that the DxDiag log file in the zip indicates issues, may be similar, with other processes on your machine. There's a few for GameInputSvc.exe (Windows Game Input Service).

[sleighzy]

Bignewy mentioned that you have IC failures and to remove mods, however you stated you have no mods. The IC failures can actually be due to the out of memory errors and the textures are unabled to be loaded, this is a false positive that they are an IC failure, see example error below....you have a lot of these, which indicates the memory issue I mentioned earlier.

2025-04-22 19:44:18.941 ERROR   EDCORE (2092): More out of memory in SharedBuffer for 11184952 bytes.
2025-04-22 19:44:18.941 ERROR   EDCORE (2092): Not enough memory to decompress: uh1_tail_us_army.dds
2025-04-22 19:44:18.943 WARNING SECURITYCONTROL (2092): IC fail: /textures/uh1_tail_us_army @ bazar/textures/uh-1.zip
2025-04-22 19:44:18.943 ERROR   BACKENDCOMMON (2092): Can't load image '/textures/uh1_tail_us_army.dds'. Reason: The parameter is incorrect.

 

Edited Tuesday at 10:13 PM by sleighzy

[Gunfreak]

9 hours ago, sleighzy said:

I dropped your zip into the DCS log analyzer and got the following output:

Memory Timing Issues

• Remove any overclocking (XMP) from your RAM.

Your System ran out of Memory

• Increase RAM or add a custom page file 

Your GPU ran out of VRAM

• Reduce Terrain Textures and Shadows. Doublecheck your pagefile.

Given the amount of RAM you have on your system, and your video card, this can be a little unexpected. However this is definitely evident in the log file. I would recommend deleting the Saved Games\DCS\fxo and metashaders2 folders as there have been occurrences in the past with older cached textures causing out of memory errors even with systems with large amounts of VRAM and RAM.

 

Disable core parking.

Additional advice:

Verify that this is configured correctly in Windows:

• Game Mode disabled
• Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling disabled
• Core Isolation disabled

Remove the OH6GunnerExport script for performance reasons.

 

Follow the above, see if this resolves anything, and if not then drop another log file.

Note that the DxDiag log file in the zip indicates issues, may be similar, with other processes on your machine. There's a few for GameInputSvc.exe (Windows Game Input Service).

I have 32gig Vram and 64 gig DDR5 ram, so it's odd that I should run out of RAM, but I guess that is what is happening, also odd I can fly this in singe player with goodish performance, but the on a dedicated server it crashes instantly.

[BIGNEWY]

Hi Gunfreak, are you overlocking at all?

[Gunfreak]

5 minutes ago, BIGNEWY said:

Hi Gunfreak, are you overlocking at all?

Nope all is standard. No fancy or automated overclocking.

[Gunfreak]

Ok, this is a bit odd, I have 64 gig, 

But when Running server and DCS I use 31 gig of ram, however task manager says that's 95% so somehow my PC only uses half of my ram, even though, all places say 64(bios, NVidia app etc.

[BIGNEWY]

Yeah seems odd, are the BIOS settings correct for your RAM? 

[Gunfreak]

10 minutes ago, BIGNEWY said:

Yeah seems odd, are the BIOS settings correct for your RAM? 

Indeed it shows 2 sticks of 32, both working as they should

[Gunfreak]

Ok, looking more at the task manager, it seems I do have 64 gig, when I hit the performance tab, however it seems that half my ram disappear into nothingness.
Combining all my processes turns into around 32 gig, yet my remaining 32 gig also disappear, but they don't seem to be used in any app.
in processes I have 100% usage and the combined processes are 32gig.
However looking at performance 64 gig is used, but there is no evidence where those remaining 32 gigs have gone