_picon Posted yesterday at 10:20 AM Posted yesterday at 10:20 AM dcs.log Digital Combat Simulator 2025-09-05 10-19-19.mp4 I'm experiencing some fairly hard freezes while playing DCS, rendering it unusable. Attaching a video, and DCS log (but not from the same run). It is not limited to the Hornet module, it seems. It is only DCS that freezes, while DCS is frozen, sound is happening, and I'm also able to alt-tab to another application. I did try removing all the plugins mentioned in .../Saved Gamex/DCS/Export.lua, no difference. If needed, I can share an ETL file (captured with gpuview/xperf), but it is a bit too big to go here. Other ideas welcome. Unfortunately, I don't really know when this started (haven't played for a while)
Rudel_chw Posted yesterday at 10:51 AM Posted yesterday at 10:51 AM 29 minutes ago, _picon said: Other ideas welcome. have you excluded the dcs folder from antivirus action? Its periodic scanning may be interfering with dcs For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
_picon Posted yesterday at 10:58 AM Author Posted yesterday at 10:58 AM It is indeed excluded. In fact, during the freeze period, DCS CPU usage goes way down 1
silverdevil Posted 18 hours ago Posted 18 hours ago (edited) 10 hours ago, _picon said: I'm experiencing some fairly hard freezes while playing DCS, rendering it unusable. Attaching a video, and DCS log (but not from the same run). i see two lines in log 2025-09-05 10:07:13.664 WARNING EDCORE (Main): CPU HAS PARKED LOGICAL CORES (this can be source of stuttering and reduced performance especially on hybrid CPUs with P/E-cores) 2025-09-05 10:07:15.396 INFO APP (Main): CPU cores: 10, threads: 16, System RAM: 32509 MB, Pagefile: 4864 MB you should either get more ram or make a static pagefile of 32 GB. try those two suggestions and come back if you still have issues. https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/how-to-manage-virtual-memory-on-windows-11 Edited 18 hours ago by silverdevil 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.
_picon Posted 2 hours ago Author Posted 2 hours ago Even with a larger page size, still the same issue. Also, changed the power settings to best performance (ie, no parked cores) Not sure if relevant, but I do get this message in the log around the time the freeze happens: "2025-09-06 12:17:41.781 WARNING WORLD (Main): ModelTimeQuantizer: ANTIFREEZE ENABLED" I would expect that the explanation be somewhat straightforward by looking at the ETL file (and see the stack traces) by someone who has access to symbols (that is, not me :-))
silverdevil Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 18 minutes ago, _picon said: ModelTimeQuantizer: ANTIFREEZE ENABLED this is a fairly common error i think. really no good solution. do you have WinWing MFDs? if so do you have vsync or gsync enabled? turn those off and retry. 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.
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