Patch notes discussion May 2025

[Hillman]

5 hours ago, draconus said:

Try with clean profile (rename your saved games/dcs folder temporarily).

Try to reconnect Steam licenses in DCS site profile.

Run DCS full repair and clean.

Make sure no AV (including Windows Defender) messes with DCS files and same for any firewall messing with your connection. Try also another connection - different network or VPN.

Tried all, but none of that helped. Thanks anyway

However: In the module manager (3x3 squers) i noticed that all the campaigns were marked for download so I did download them. This solved the campaigns.
The aircrafts were however not suggested for download, but when I were able to request a download on the "Modules" tab. I could then download one module at the time and it seems this is solving the issue (so far only 3 moduls downloaded)
Actually I thought that this was what slow repair kind of did...

I transfered my complete DCS from an older computer recently. This worked fine for version 2.9.15.9599.1 from 5th May. For the versions after that it seems something have changed in how aircraft and campaign modules are authorized forcing me to download these again. Luckily the maps authorize as before.

 

Edited Sunday at 03:04 PM by Hillman

[draconus]

5 hours ago, Hillman said:

Tried all, but none of that helped. Thanks anyway

However: In the module manager (3x3 squers) i noticed that all the campaigns were marked for download so I did download them. This solved the campaigns.
The aircrafts were however not suggested for download, but when I were able to request a download on the "Modules" tab. I could then download one module at the time and it seems this is solving the issue (so far only 3 moduls downloaded)
Actually I thought that this was what slow repair kind of did...

I transfered my complete DCS from an older computer recently. This worked fine for version 2.9.15.9599.1 from 5th May. For the versions after that it seems something have changed in how aircraft and campaign modules are authorized forcing me to download these again. Luckily the maps authorize as before.

Thanks for the feedback and solution. This was actually supposed to be my next advice to try to redownload the modules but you nailed it

[RodentMaster]

On 4/26/2025 at 7:40 AM, schurem said:

Hi, I just started the sim and got this message:

 

nullI already did the ipconfig /flushdns thing and tried logging in and out again. It logs in but throws the same error. I can assure you I should be authorised to use both

 

Cheers.

 

On 6/1/2025 at 7:18 AM, Hillman said:

Same problem here. No solution from support so far…

 

On 5/26/2025 at 3:30 PM, Hillman said:

After sending them lot's of log-files and screenshots support came back and suggeted that I should change my password! Not sure what that should help for... Never had any issues on logging on as such.

I think I stick with the prev version if I'm to get any playtime.

Did any of you solve it? I stumbled across the stupidest most-desperate attempt at problem solving my way around it. Logic be damned, it worked. My fear was that I was going to have try some kind of backup-less redownload of hundreds of gigs of files all over again and lose all my custom skins and missions and settings and control mappings. So I went into the game, cleared the error, and went to the module manager (top left of screen, 9 squares in a grid icon). I went to the "installed" tab and was dreading trying to uncheck and uninstall one, and then reinstall. I know the launcher is worth f*** all and I don't trust it at this point so I'm looking for a solution in-game.

 

When stumbling around, I noticed the specials page. I had one already. Instead of "buy" next to the price, it had "install". I went to the middle tab, "Modules" (NOT the "installed" tab) and saw to my surprise all my many many modules that I owned were all marked as owned. It knew I had them. I clicked "install" on one of them as a test. A smaller one in case I had to download it all. It started, and since all the files were there, it skipped downloading and went right to reviewing the files there for any missing files, and when it was done that module was available for use. I confirmed this by exiting and restarting the game, and noticed the module I did that to was NO LONGER ON THE ERROR LIST!!!!

 

So the patch, the installer, the install checker, the cleaner, even the game itself under installed modules, every part of it has a broken link to which flight modules you own, that reinstalling from the module page re-connects.

 

Here's the bad news: Start game, wait for load, clear error, go to module manager, go to modules tab, find the next one, click install, it pops up an error, saying the updater will be used, waiting for that to clear, finally closing, and doing it all over again for every... single... module... took over an hour. I have a lot of modules and it's a slow-ass procedure. It worked, though. Before I couldn't even enter a mission because it said I didn't have that plane, and after it let me.

 

Give it a try. I hope it works for you. Shame on ED for severing whatever registered link was in there between the installed modules and the version update.

[Hillman]

6 hours ago, RodentMaster said:

 

 

Did any of you solve it? I stumbled across the stupidest most-desperate attempt at problem solving my way around it. Logic be damned, it worked. My fear was that I was going to have try some kind of backup-less redownload of hundreds of gigs of files all over again and lose all my custom skins and missions and settings and control mappings. So I went into the game, cleared the error, and went to the module manager (top left of screen, 9 squares in a grid icon). I went to the "installed" tab and was dreading trying to uncheck and uninstall one, and then reinstall. I know the launcher is worth f*** all and I don't trust it at this point so I'm looking for a solution in-game.

 

When stumbling around, I noticed the specials page. I had one already. Instead of "buy" next to the price, it had "install". I went to the middle tab, "Modules" (NOT the "installed" tab) and saw to my surprise all my many many modules that I owned were all marked as owned. It knew I had them. I clicked "install" on one of them as a test. A smaller one in case I had to download it all. It started, and since all the files were there, it skipped downloading and went right to reviewing the files there for any missing files, and when it was done that module was available for use. I confirmed this by exiting and restarting the game, and noticed the module I did that to was NO LONGER ON THE ERROR LIST!!!!

 

So the patch, the installer, the install checker, the cleaner, even the game itself under installed modules, every part of it has a broken link to which flight modules you own, that reinstalling from the module page re-connects.

 

Here's the bad news: Start game, wait for load, clear error, go to module manager, go to modules tab, find the next one, click install, it pops up an error, saying the updater will be used, waiting for that to clear, finally closing, and doing it all over again for every... single... module... took over an hour. I have a lot of modules and it's a slow-ass procedure. It worked, though. Before I couldn't even enter a mission because it said I didn't have that plane, and after it let me.

 

Give it a try. I hope it works for you. Shame on ED for severing whatever registered link was in there between the installed modules and the version update.

I did the same (as you can read in an earlier comment). Like you say it was one module at a time so I then instead deleted most of the modules which triggered a full download of all deleted modules that took some time (a few hours?), but at least I was free to do some other stuff while waiting. Surprised that we are the only two who have had these problems. For me this only applied to aircrafts and campaigns. Terrains/maps was not a problem.

[Trancers]

On 6/3/2025 at 8:15 AM, Hillman said:

I did the same (as you can read in an earlier comment). Like you say it was one module at a time so I then instead deleted most of the modules which triggered a full download of all deleted modules that took some time (a few hours?), but at least I was free to do some other stuff while waiting. Surprised that we are the only two who have had these problems. For me this only applied to aircrafts and campaigns. Terrains/maps was not a problem.

First try to deinstall the F-14 Tomcat module, if installed!?

There have been a few problems with the Windows Defender in the past I belive...

Edited Wednesday at 11:26 AM by Trancers