AcesRed1 Posted Saturday at 01:23 AM Posted Saturday at 01:23 AM (edited) I recently purchased and installed the Cold War Germany map, and ever since then the game will crash when loading on initial start. It either does a simple crash with crash log or my entire Windows restarts. I have tried everything (including repairs) and had my log analyzed and followed all instructions. I have found the only thing that seems to work is deleting my Metashaders and FXO files before EVERY time I start the game, which seems highly irregular. This never used to be an issue and I have a fairly high end system with no issues. I even tried uninstalling the CWG map and it continues to do this. This did start right around the time of the recent Patch Update. dcs.log-20250606-233517.zip Edited Saturday at 01:24 AM by AcesRed1
AcesRed1 Posted Saturday at 02:29 AM Author Posted Saturday at 02:29 AM So a new development I've seemed to discover. It also seems to have issues with my Screen Shots folder. I had initially deleted the folder, but as soon as I had new photos in the folder not even deleting Metashaders and FXO prevented the game from crashing. Then as soon as I deleted the Screen Shots folder, it loaded again. For some reason it seems to really have an issue with my saved games folder after the update or since I installed CWG.
silverdevil Posted Saturday at 12:36 PM Posted Saturday at 12:36 PM 10 hours ago, AcesRed1 said: So a new development I've seemed to discover. It also seems to have issues with my Screen Shots folder. I had initially deleted the folder, but as soon as I had new photos in the folder not even deleting Metashaders and FXO prevented the game from crashing. Then as soon as I deleted the Screen Shots folder, it loaded again. For some reason it seems to really have an issue with my saved games folder after the update or since I installed CWG. hello. since you surmise that the saved games folder may have a roaming culprit, you can rename the saved games\DCS folder to .OLD or .BAK or whatever. run the sim. exit and then copy your input from the backup folder to the newly created saved games DCS folder. then run the sim again and see what happens. good luck. AKA_SilverDevil Join AKA Wardogs Email Address My YouTube “The MIGS came up, the MIGS were aggressive, we tangled, they lost.” - Robin Olds - An American fighter pilot. He was a triple ace. The only man to ever record a confirmed kill while in glide mode.
AcesRed1 Posted Saturday at 02:21 PM Author Posted Saturday at 02:21 PM 1 hour ago, silverdevil said: hello. since you surmise that the saved games folder may have a roaming culprit, you can rename the saved games\DCS folder to .OLD or .BAK or whatever. run the sim. exit and then copy your input from the backup folder to the newly created saved games DCS folder. then run the sim again and see what happens. good luck. Hey, thanks for the response. I actually have already done exactly that. And actually stayed with the newly created Saved Games folder. The only thing I imported from the old folder was the Input for keybinds. However, soon enough the game started crashing again just as it had before. So it seems the game is creating something in the saved games folder that’s causing itself to crash.
Moezilla Posted Saturday at 03:44 PM Posted Saturday at 03:44 PM 14 hours ago, AcesRed1 said: I recently purchased and installed the Cold War Germany map, and ever since then the game will crash when loading on initial start. It either does a simple crash with crash log or my entire Windows restarts. I have tried everything (including repairs) and had my log analyzed and followed all instructions. I have found the only thing that seems to work is deleting my Metashaders and FXO files before EVERY time I start the game, which seems highly irregular. This never used to be an issue and I have a fairly high end system with no issues. I even tried uninstalling the CWG map and it continues to do this. This did start right around the time of the recent Patch Update. dcs.log-20250606-233517.zip 130.21 kB · 4 downloads The error message seems to refer to an issue relating to temporary files. If you have plenty of space on your drive(s) then another possible cause would be a permissions issue. Is it possible that you installed DCS, or parts of it, as administrator and are running it as a regular user now? This can lead to some weird behaviours.
AcesRed1 Posted Saturday at 03:53 PM Author Posted Saturday at 03:53 PM (edited) 34 minutes ago, Moezilla said: The error message seems to refer to an issue relating to temporary files. If you have plenty of space on your drive(s) then another possible cause would be a permissions issue. Is it possible that you installed DCS, or parts of it, as administrator and are running it as a regular user now? This can lead to some weird behaviours. I’m not entirely sure. I haven’t changed anything except to install Germany Cold War and update the game with the latest update. Other than that I haven’t changed anything at all on my computer or in the game. And it does work some of the time, seemingly right after I continually delete FXO and metashaders. Edited Saturday at 04:19 PM by AcesRed1
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