Launcher comes up as just a grey window

[WurzelGummage]

The DCS launcher has just started showing as a grey window for me. If I disable the launcher in the Options.lua the game launches fine, but as soon as I make it 'true' again, back to the grey window.

I've run a repair and a clean-up through powershell. I don't have any shaders I'm aware of, which I read can cause issues.

Can anyone help? dcs.log

Log file attached from a start with the launcher set to 'false' if it's any help.

[sleighzy]

Rename your Saved Games\DCS folder to Saved Games\DCS.old (rename don't delete so you can copy back your bindings from Config\Input). Restart DCS and it'll recreate the Saved Games\DCS folder again.

This has been reported by a few users with the above steps resolving the issue for them.

[GunnerFlyboy]

I had the same problem, yesterday the sim worked fine, then today I couldn't get it to launch with the new launcher. I did all the troubleshooting and found a workaround that gets you back into the sim without a repair or more invasive troubleshooting. The issue is resolved (until ED can figure out the cause) by bypassing launcher via a modification of the options.lua file. Open the file up in notepad or notepad++ (Make a backup!). You can find it in this location:

C:\Users\[Username]\Saved Games\DCS\Config\options.lua

Once you have options.lua open, look around line 140, search for this: ["launcher"]

Now that you have found this line of code: ["launcher"] = true

change it to: ["launcher"] = false

Save the file and then you should be able to start DCS like the old way. We are just using old way which didn't depend on the launcher. 

DCS log was truncated so there was no information that was usable, I looked also at the event viewer - nothing there out of the ordinary.

My system specs:

HP Omen 30L GT13-0090 (Modified for greater thermal cooling and RAM)
Intel Core i9-10850K (Stock: 3.6GHz, OC: 4.7GHz with undervolting)
NVIDIA RTX 3090 OC and undervolted. 
64GB RAM @ 3200 MT/s
Windows 11 Home  Build: 24H2
DCS Version 2.9.17.12034

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[sleighzy]

1 hour ago, GunnerFlyboy said:

I did all the troubleshooting and found a workaround that gets you back into the sim without a repair or more invasive troubleshooting.

Yes, the workaround will work. As part of the troubleshooting did that include the renaming of Saved Games\DCS like I mentioned above? This has resolved for other users so the launcher is still able to be used.