asdfg1111 Posted July 1 Posted July 1 Hello, I've been having an annoying issue lately with DCS. The launcher opens fine (using MT launcher with VR). However, at least once a week if not more, the game will refuse to launch and the DCS World pre-launch window just stays there as if it's trying to load. I've found that if I run the full repair, it fixes it and I can then launch the game, but the full repair takes some time and the issue returns weekly it seems. Then needing another repair to launch. Should I just try to re-install the entire game or has anyone run into this issue and solved it? My PC has no issues running DCS, so I don't think it's related to hardware or hardware limitations. It's a relatively newer issue that started within the last month or two. Thanks
Solution MAXsenna Posted July 1 Solution Posted July 1 Hello, I've been having an annoying issue lately with DCS. The launcher opens fine (using MT launcher with VR). However, at least once a week if not more, the game will refuse to launch and the DCS World pre-launch window just stays there as if it's trying to load. I've found that if I run the full repair, it fixes it and I can then launch the game, but the full repair takes some time and the issue returns weekly it seems. Then needing another repair to launch. Should I just try to re-install the entire game or has anyone run into this issue and solved it? My PC has no issues running DCS, so I don't think it's related to hardware or hardware limitations. It's a relatively newer issue that started within the last month or two. ThanksHave you excluded the DCS core folders in your Anti-Virus solution? Sent from my SM-A536B using Tapatalk 2
asdfg1111 Posted July 2 Author Posted July 2 Thanks for the reply, I checked my antivirus firewall settings and I do see DCS is allowed access
mkel2010 Posted July 2 Posted July 2 Have you checked for any crash logs in the Saved Games/Logs folder? I've recently had issues with DCS failing to load and found that it was another program causing an Access Violation error. The Logs can be opened with Notepad++. 1
asdfg1111 Posted July 2 Author Posted July 2 I do see a dcs.txt file in the Logs folder which is dated 7/1/2025 (yesterday when the issue had occurred). Is that the correct file? I don't see any recent 'CRASH' filetype files.
mkel2010 Posted July 2 Posted July 2 5 minutes ago, asdfg1111 said: I do see a dcs.txt file in the Logs folder which is dated 7/1/2025 (yesterday when the issue had occurred). Is that the correct file? I don't see any recent 'CRASH' filetype files. If DCS crashes, there should be files that end in .crash and .dmp. Otherwise. you should have a log file called DCS.log and dcs.log.old (the previous version of the last dcs.log file.) Both can also be opened by using Notepad++. 1
asdfg1111 Posted July 2 Author Posted July 2 I do see the file, but not seeing any access violation error. Should I share the file here?
asdfg1111 Posted July 3 Author Posted July 3 Ok, I think I found the cause. I just tried launching it again and when it hung up in the usual spot I did open BitDefender and disabled some of the active protection options. As soon as I did that the game launched. I guess there was some other way it was blocking it besides the Firewall. I think it's working fine now. Thanks for the help!
rob10 Posted July 3 Posted July 3 1 hour ago, asdfg1111 said: I guess there was some other way it was blocking it besides the Firewall. I think it's working fine now. Thanks for the help! For the record, it's rarely the firewall that's the issue in this type of case. It's almost always that the anti-virus that thinks some file(s) are suspicious. 2
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