game crashes all the time

[farebro]

hi all can anyone look at my crash reports please. Sim keeps crashing, tried graphic drivers. full dcs repair, no mods

dcs.log-20250606-202924.zip dcs.log-20250606-201913.zip dcs.log-20250606-193045.zip dcs.log-20250606-192403.zip dcs.log-20250604-195309.zip

[Shimvolski]

I feel your pain, I seriously think there is something in the code since the last update that is causing this.  I have another thread on this.  I have the day off and have already spent too much time seeing if I could fix it on my end.  I give up, we need a hot fix.

[silverdevil]

16 hours ago, farebro said:

hi all can anyone look at my crash reports please. Sim keeps crashing, tried graphic drivers. full dcs repair, no mods

hello. you say no mods but you have at least one or a leftover piece of one.

2025-06-06 20:11:09.161 ERROR   APP (Main): Failed to run E:\DCS World\Scripts\Hooks\gunner_export_hook.lua: [string "E:\DCS World\Scripts\Hooks\gunner_export_hook.lua"]:7: module 'OH6GunnerDataExport' not found:

mods should be placed in Saved Games.

rename the file "E:\DCS World\Scripts\Hooks\gunner_export_hook.lua", run a repair, and retry. 

@Shimvolski your issue might be different than OP. there are a lot of reason for DCS not being happy. you should start your own topic. jumping into someone else's topic saying "me too" is not always helpful.

[sleighzy]

Based on the DCS log analyzer, and the errors in the logs, it appears that there is a GPU related issue here as well. And yes, you do have mods.

You also have a dxgi.dll file in the bin-mt directory of DCS, this does not ship with the game. There are only a couple of reasons you would do this, and has been known to cause crashes, so remove that, run a slow repair of the game choosing the option to remove files.

There is a GPU-related error

• Remove any overclocking from your GPU. (some GPUs come with a factory overclock, you can confirm with MSI Afterburner)
• Uninstall your GPU driver with DDU and install a clean one.

This aligns with the log file as well, tons of these errors.

2025-06-06 19:30:42.725 ERROR   DX11BACKEND (18892): DX device removed. Reason: 0x887A0005
2025-06-06 19:30:42.725 ERROR   DX11BACKEND (12260): failed to create structed buffer. Reason: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED
2025-06-06 19:30:42.725 ERROR   DX11BACKEND (12260): CreateShaderResourceView FAILED. Reason: E_INVALIDARG
2025-06-06 19:30:42.725 ERROR   DX11BACKEND (12260): failed to create index buffer. Reason: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED
2025-06-06 19:30:42.725 ERROR   DX11BACKEND (12260): failed to create vertex buffer. Reason: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED
2025-06-06 19:30:42.725 ERROR   DX11BACKEND (12260): Failed assert `false && "failed to create vertex buffer"`

Also appears in the DxDiag report as well:

Windows Error Reporting (WER)

• Kernel Events
  • The following kernel-events have been detected: VIDEO_ENGINE_TIMEOUT_DETECTED

You should run DCS from the bin directory and not bin-mt as well.

There is also an access denied error when it is trying to write a track file to Saved Games, do you run DCS as administrator? (You can check the Compatibility tab of the properties menu of your shortcut to ensure that this is not the case).

 

There are other errors in DxDiag report as well, but the above may solve this.

Application Errors

• DCS.exe: was hung for 58.12s and killed
• SimLogic.exe: c0000005 (WWTHID.dll)
• WWTStream.exe: c0000005 (WWTHID.dll)
• Memory Timing Issues
• Run SFC and DISM to check your Windows.
• Check for any updates of your BIOS or chipset drivers.
• Remove any overclocking (XMP) from your RAM.

For the SFC and DISM checks open a command prompt as administrator and run the below two commands separately and restart your PC:

dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

sfc /scannow

 

[sleighzy]

As a followup to this from the logs I have reviewed I see that these are also from VR, does the same situation occur when running in 2D? If VR only you could also try installing the tool below and then unselecting both the OpenXR Toolkit and OpenKneeboard layers within there to see whether or not they're a factor in this. https://github.com/fredemmott/OpenXR-API-Layers-GUI