DCS no longer works after clicking on the launcher

[Togg]

Hi

Today, DCS has stopped working. I can start the launcher, click on Start and... nothing happens.

Slow repair : done

Mods: none

???

 

 

 

dcs.20250526-174036.crash dcs.20250526-174036.dmp

Edited May 26 by Togg

[silverdevil]

2 hours ago, Togg said:

Hi

Today, DCS has stopped working. I can start the launcher, click on Start and... nothing happens.

Slow repair : done

Mods: none

???

you should also share the latest DCS.LOG

[Togg]

Here is the log file

 

 

dcs.log

[silverdevil]

On 5/27/2025 at 12:13 PM, Togg said:

Here is the log file

hello. Change your pagefile to at least 32768 MB (initial size).

2025-05-27 22:47:18.518 INFO    APP (Main): CPU cores: 4, threads: 8, System RAM: 32713 MB, Pagefile: 0 MB

https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/196924-page-file-tip-by-mustang/

[Togg]

Hello

It is weird

I have :

2025-05-27 16:11:56.106 INFO    APP (Main): CPU cores: 12, threads: 20, System RAM: 65381 MB, Pagefile: 4096 MB

By the way, DCS worked one week ago. I didn't change any settings since.

Edited May 29 by Togg

[silverdevil]

1 hour ago, Togg said:

Hello

It is weird

I have :

2025-05-27 16:11:56.106 INFO    APP (Main): CPU cores: 12, threads: 20, System RAM: 65381 MB, Pagefile: 4096 MB

By the way, DCS worked one week ago. I didn't change any settings since.

odd. the log snip you shared is timestamp before the log you shared. can you run the sim and post that log?

[Togg]

Right now

 

dcs.log

[rob10]

Try updating or re-installing your Windows Visual C++ Redistributables.  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170

That's what it seems to be choking on.

[Togg]

Same result

[rob10]

6 minutes ago, Togg said:

Same result

It's really helpful if you provide a new .log file after you make changes.  It's possible you have multiple issues and after fixing the 1st issue the new one may show up in a new log.

[Togg]

New log. Same as the old one.

 

dcs.log

Edited May 29 by Togg

[sleighzy]

Tried renaming your Saved Games\DCS folder to Saved Games\DCS.old so that DCS will create a new one on startup? You can get your bindings back from the Config\Input folder in the backed up one afterwards. The Saved Games folder is not touched during a repair. The error trace points towards to the SQLite database, of which there is one in Saved Games\DCS for the launcher. Try the rename if you haven't already and see what happens.

[Art-J]

Another idea, have you tried starting the game without launcher? What happens then? You can disable it by editing relevant line in options.lua file (["launcher"] = false,)

[Togg]

7 hours ago, sleighzy said:

Tried renaming your Saved Games\DCS folder to Saved Games\DCS.old so that DCS will create a new one on startup? You can get your bindings back from the Config\Input folder in the backed up one afterwards. The Saved Games folder is not touched during a repair. The error trace points towards to the SQLite database, of which there is one in Saved Games\DCS for the launcher. Try the rename if you haven't already and see what happens.

It works.

 

Thanks a lot !

Edited May 30 by Togg

[wurger13]

19 hours ago, sleighzy said:

Tried renaming your Saved Games\DCS folder to Saved Games\DCS.old so that DCS will create a new one on startup? You can get your bindings back from the Config\Input folder in the backed up one afterwards. The Saved Games folder is not touched during a repair. The error trace points towards to the SQLite database, of which there is one in Saved Games\DCS for the launcher. Try the rename if you haven't already and see what happens.

I was having the same issue and this fixed it!  Thank you!

However.... It is a pain in the ass to have to restore all your old folders (missions, liveries, configs, etc) back to the new one. 

Edited May 30 by wurger13

[dave76]

same since last update dcs crash

dcs.log

[sleighzy]

2 hours ago, dave76 said:

same since last update dcs crash

dcs.log 62.81 kB · 3 downloads

You shouldn't hijack other people's posts, especially if they're solved. Your issue is unrelated, and likely a different reason. There is also no crash in that log so it's possibly Windows killing the process, in which case run the Windows DxDiag tool, save the report, and post that and the log in a new post.

I ran your log through the DCS log analyzer anyway, few items you can address but they may not solve your problem.

Delete your Saved Games\DCS\fxo and metashaders2 folders if you haven't already done so since the upgrade.

Advice

• Change your pagefile to at least 32768 MB (initial size).
• If you have stability or performance issues pointing to your GPU, rollback the GPU driver to version 566.36,
• Verify that this is configured correctly in Windows:
  • Game Mode disabled,
  • Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling disabled
     

Tuning Tips

• Disable Tacview for performance reasons.,
• Set Water to Medium or Low.,
• Turn down Anisotropic Filtering.,
• Set Preload Radius to max. 60000 (with your 32Gb RAM I'd probably recommend 30000)

[dave76]

Hi,

i post here because i thought it was the same issue before open another topic........sorry about that.

i already cleaned up fxo and metasheders2 but did not solve.

i try what you suggest and let'see if solve.

thanks