"Sim poststar" freeze" again.

[jef32]

Hi

 

I’ve created some months or years ago, plenty of templates for Caucasus and other maps, using a lot of unofficial modules. I’ve included these templates in missions SP I’ve created and it was a very long work. Recently I’ve changed my hardware and many of these missions aren’t working anymore, but some others are working always fine. The freeze appears at « sim poststart » when I load one of these missions. I’ve said myself : « Ok, that’s one or several unofficial modules that are causing the freeze ». So, I’ve edited the corrupted mission files with notepad ++ by erasing the lines of required modules and replace them by the sames lines taken in a good mission launching well but it’s the same. So I could think in this case that the « sim poststart » freeze isn’t caused by some unofficial modules but by something else but it’s very frustrating to be forced to throw hours and hours of work in the garbage.

 

If you have any other ideas that telling me : « It’s your unofficial modules » it’s welcome.

dcs.log

[sleighzy]

There are a huge number of mods in that log, with a lot of errors. First off, delete your Saved Games\DCS\fxo and metashaders2 folders and try again.

If still failing then I'd recommend removing the mods, running a slow repair of the game, and then delete your fxo and metashaders2 folders again. Drop another log after that if it continues to fail.

You can put your mods back afterwards, however it's too hard to tell if the mods are the issue with this given the vast number of them and the amount of error spam in the logs due to these.

[silverdevil]

haha! "i am here for help, but i do not want anyone's suggestions..."

[BIGNEWY]

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Please remove all unofficial mods run a slow repair of dcs and try without the mods

Rename your dcs folder in saved games  ( keep it as a backup )

restart dcs login and try to reproduce without any unofficial mods or edits. 

Also

Verify that this is configured correctly in Windows:
Game Mode disabled,
Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling disabled,
Core Isolation disabled

 

 

[jef32]

Thanks to all for your anwers.

Sleighzy: Lot of my missions are working fine despite all "errors" showed in the log and if I neutralize the mods by renaming the directory "mods" the "not working missions " will not launch at all before the sim poststart freeze, saying that mods are missing. Recently I've updated the graphic driver and it's automatic for me, I've deleted the FXO and Metashaders for recreate new ones and I still have the freeze after that.

Bignewy: Something I've forgotten, it's to disable the game mode. Thanks to you to remember me to do it, and it's done now  but nothing has changed for my issue, whatever the statut of the Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling . But what is "core isolation" ?  ( I have an Intel core Ultra 7 265K). As I've said, the shaders have recently regenerated and the nvidia shaders too.

In my investigations, I've found that it's surely my templates that are causing the issue and I have the same issue with a template not of mine: This one:

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/fr/files/3338070/

and missions done with it have the simpoststart freeze.

So, I thing I will re-do my templates I think.

[jef32]

Hi guys ! I've solved my issue.

 

I have a new installation of DCS on my new computer. So I've forgotten to do the simple operation to duplicate the files "fake_omni_lights2.fx" and "fake_spot_lights2.fx" and to rename the 2 copies as  "fake_omni_lights.fx" and "fake_spot_lights.fx"

 

It's done now and ALL my old missions are working well.