Crash/Hang spawning into the Phantom

[Draken35]

When trying to spawn into a Phantom hot or cold, any map, SP or MP I get either a crash to desktop of DCS just hangs. Does not always generates the zip crash file in \logs.
This is what I have done to troubleshoot:

• 1) Remove all mods 
• 2) renamed Saved Games DCS folder to DCS.old.
• 3) Slow repair
• 4) Launch instant action cold start mission in the Caucasus map and test. WORKS!
• 5) Copy the Config\Input folder from SG\DCS.old to the clean one (to get my keybindings back) and test as #4 and it WORKS.
• 6) Copy the DCS.old Config\options.lua into the clean cone and test, same as #4 and it FAILS.

So, seems that the crash is related to my old options.lua file, which I attached. Also attached are the latest log and crash files.
Any ideas of what this can be?

 

 

options.lua dcs.log dcs.20250427-170052.crash

[Draken35]

Well, don't know why it did not occurred to me before, but in my full install, including MODS, I uninstalled the F-4 from the module's manager and reinstalled it and it now WORKS.

[Super Grover]

The log file suggests a problem initialising Jester sound samples, which indicates that the whole directory with the samples was missing. I assume it works now, so we won't investigate it, but if the problem reappears, please let us know, and we will check what could cause it. For the time being, have fun with the F-4E  

[Draken35]

7 hours ago, Super Grover said:

The log file suggests a problem initialising Jester sound samples, which indicates that the whole directory with the samples was missing. I assume it works now, so we won't investigate it, but if the problem reappears, please let us know, and we will check what could cause it. For the time being, have fun with the F-4E  

Well.. It did work for that first login in DCS after the F-4 reinstall... The moment I logged out and came back it, the crash reappeared!

So, I went back to a clean install and started troubleshooting again, focusing in the options.lua. After many DCS restarts going back and forth checking the options, I noticed that the when the DCS Launcher is enabled in Misc. Options, the Phantom works as expected but if I disable the launcher, it produces the crash! 

I disabled the DCS launcher within two hours of it been released and have played the "old fashion way" since... IIRC, last time I flew the F-4 was in February of this year, so either   something happened  in the last couple of updates or this is a byproduct of me going from Win10 to Win11 around the same timeframe.

For now, I have the launcher work around, but I cannot believe I'm the only one not using the launcher!

 

[SniperSS]

Good afternoon, the same thing happens to me, what would be the solution? I have dismantled the F4 but it remains the same, widcs.log-20250503-193318.zipdcs.log-20250503-193318.zipdcs.log-20250503-193318.zipdcs.log-20250503-193318.zipdcs.log-20250503-193318.zipdcs.log-20250503-193318.zipdcs.log-20250503-193318.zipdcs.log-20250503-193318.zipdcs.log-20250503-193318.zipth other aircraft that does not happen to me.

Edited May 3 by SniperSS