DCS - Map editor - Loading any map - freez in load

[Molnija1985]

Hello, 

after update today patch and buying DCS: MiG-29A, if I create new mission in Caucassus (or any other map, Sinai, Germany ... etc.) so DCS freezes on loading.

Any ideas?

dcs.log

[A n Y]

I had a similar problem, but I don't own a MiG-29A. Try renaming the DCS folder in your saved games; that helped me. Then I dragged the aircraft control settings: \Saved Games\DCS\Config\Input

[sleighzy]

I see this error in that log.

2025-09-17 17:27:53.596 ALERT   LUACOMMON (Main): Error: GUI Error: [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_news.lua"]:146: bad argument #2 to 'date' (number expected, got string)
GUI debug.traceback: stack traceback:
	[C]: ?
	[C]: in function 'date'
	[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_news.lua"]:146: in function 'showNews'
	[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_news.lua"]:259: in function 'funCallBack'
	[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_waitDsbweb.lua"]:90: in function 'updater'
	[string "./Scripts/UpdateManager.lua"]:64: in function <[string "./Scripts/UpdateManager.lua"]:40>

Try running a slow repair of the game. Additionally if this continues then try renaming your Saved Games\DCS.openbeta folder to DCS.old as per the suggestion in the previous comment in case of corruption in anything in the MissionEditor folder related there.

Edited Thursday at 06:16 AM by sleighzy

[Dashomat]

same here, and Im also unable to load a mission or the encyclopedia. The only thing that did work for me was loading the mission editor for the south atlantic map, but then Im unable to view Airplane or Helicopter liveries in the Mission Editor.

 

Any help appreciated 

 

[Dashomat]

Ok, i think i found out something here.

If I stay online after launching the sim it works. Everything runs smoothly, but if I go offline the loading of everything stops

[paura19]

Same problem.

From DCS discord: Rename folder Misison Editor in Savegames. Game will create new one. Than finally I can jump to mission.
Also I transfered these files to "new created MissionEd. folder"

Someting is wrong in this folder, that blocked loading to missions and map.
But not everyone has this problem.

Edited Thursday at 10:48 AM by paura19

[Dashomat]

when i stay online after launching it works, but offline no

[sleighzy]

41 minutes ago, Dashomat said:

when i stay online after launching it works, but offline no

Please attach your DCS log file for review, this may be a separate issue in which case you can raise your own post. 

[Dashomat]

20 hours ago, Molnija1985 said:

Hello, 

after update today patch and buying DCS: MiG-29A, if I create new mission in Caucassus (or any other map, Sinai, Germany ... etc.) so DCS freezes on loading.

Any ideas?

dcs.log 47.16 kB · 10 downloads

did you load while offline?

[A n Y]

So, in the end, the main reason for the DCS mission not loading was the file: Games\DCS\MissionEditor\news.lua after deletion ok

news.lua

[petsild]

Hi,

I can confirm, after deleting the news.lua file, DCS is functional.

Thanks for the quick community hotfix. 

[Molnija1985]

Hello,

I have already solved the problem. I had to delete the old folder (Saved Games\DCS.openbeta) and start DCS again. Fortunately, I had my missions and logbook (where I have 215 hours flown in SP on the MiG 21) backed up. 

Thank you all...

 

[MAXsenna]

13 hours ago, Molnija1985 said:

Hello,

I have already solved the problem. I had to delete the old folder (Saved Games\DCS.openbeta) and start DCS again. Fortunately, I had my missions and logbook (where I have 215 hours flown in SP on the MiG 21) backed up. 

Thank you all...

 

Great! I usually recommend renaming the folder instead of deleting it. Backups are great though!