Lockup During Certain Georgian Oil War Campaign Missions

[dsobbe]

In the Georgian Oil Wars, Phase 2, mission ATO-B-P4.3, the program stops and a Vista error window pops announcing that "the program has stopped working and will close". The program then goes to the debrief screen where the scores are all zero. In my previous post concerning ATO-B-P3.3 I was able to run the mission by editing out the overcast skies. However, this current mission just keeps crashing, regardless of what I edit out to lighten the system load and improve frame rate.

 

UPDATE:

 

I discovered that if you change the inboard pylon payload from external fuel tanks to rockets, any type, prior to takeoff these missions play without error in the campaign. I also found this to be true in the Courier single mission. The program freezes seem to be related to missions that have external fuel tanks included in their default payloads.

Edited October 30, 2009 by dsobbe

[dsobbe]

In mission ATO-B.P3.4 the mission again stops as above. But, changing or jettisioning the external tanks does not help. The mission stops any time I fly within 2km of waypoint 3. This is definately a campaign killer. Does anyone know of a workaround to continue the campaign?

[Panzertard]

Post #24 - editing the formation, did you try that?

[Distiler]

I had lockups with a mission made in 1.0 and I've found that a group of 4 apc in cone formation, but a bit scattered in the map, was giving the problem. I've fixed by downgrading the group to 1 then let the editor re-do up to 4 units again without any scattering. It's like the engine doesen't like some of the placement of groups units from 1.0.

[dsobbe]

Ed,

In the Georgian Oil Wars, Phase 2 I'm having more random stoppages in many SP missions. Changing the cone formations does not improve the crash rate. I have Patch 1.0.1 installed, Vista 32, no add ons. No problems with any other campaigns or missions. See attached .trk, .error, .crash files. Hope this helps.

[dsobbe]

Ed,

Additional to Post #30

Attached DxDiag.txt.

[dsobbe]

Ed,

Same as post #30 above, except this occurred running the updated Georgian Oil Wars 1.1. See attached. Unable to upload crash and error logs. Good luck.

DxDiag.txt

LastMissionTrack.trk

[dsobbe]

Update to my prior posts concerning mission stoppages in Georgian Oil Wars.

I updated my video driver and have not experienced any further stoppages, even when replaying missions with a history of this problem. I'm now well into the Oil Wars with no problems at all.

[dr20]

I'm on the latest NVidia drivers and still getting the crash, for me it happens around 30sec to 1 minute in on the airport defense mission. I had no problems with the "Deployment" campaign.

 

I also did the suggested alterations to the mission (removing the cone formations) but all to no avail. If someone has an altered mission that works I wonder if they could post it.

 

[EDIT] Actually after uninstalling my Soundmax drivers for my Asus P6T Deluxe V2 motherboard and reverting back to windows default it doesn't crash. Strange that this occurs only on one mission (so far) and seems to be a driver problem.

Edited December 11, 2009 by dr20
Crash fixed for me.

[Hippo]

I have also been having very similar issues. I have been playing GOW campaign and have been experiencing random hangs, usually (but not always) at the start of missions just after unpausing. I have been able to get by so far by restarting missions; but I have now got to this mission, and I can't get past it. It always hangs just after I unpause at the start.

 

ATO B.P2.1

 

I can ctl-alt-del to task manager after which I get

 

Description:

A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.

 

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: AppHangB1

Application Name: DCS.exe

Application Version: 1.0.1.0

Application Timestamp: 4a7acae0

Hang Signature: c4c4

Hang Type: 2048

OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.4

Locale ID: 2057

Additional Hang Signature 1: c4c4e5a752078d63fcf03949f13636b2

Additional Hang Signature 2: fe4e

Additional Hang Signature 3: fe4e7d3ef9f2f921e4e82f261d56d6cf

Additional Hang Signature 4: c4c4

Additional Hang Signature 5: c4c4e5a752078d63fcf03949f13636b2

Additional Hang Signature 6: fe4e

Additional Hang Signature 7: fe4e7d3ef9f2f921e4e82f261d56d6cf

 

After trying a few things I found that I could eventually get around this issue if instead of pressing pause to start the mission; first press f2 for an external view, then unpause, then take off using the external view for a few seconds - then back into the cockpit - I was then able to continue the mission. So unpause from cockpit = crash; unpause from F2 view= ok.

DxDiag.txt

Error.log.txt

errors.log.txt

[Sabre-TLA]

Fix for Hung Missions

 

I don't know if this will help everyone but I was having problems getting some of the missions in the campaign to play properly too on the latest patch.

 

What I did was open the campaign and save it in the campaign editor without any changes and lo and behold I could play the missions that were previously hanging.

 

Maybe re-saving the campaign file clears a corruption? I tried saving individual missions using the mission editor but that didn't seem to work. Once I saved the whole campaign it did.

 

Hopefully this helps others that encounter this problem.

[Harry Cockpit]

Just had a "Lockup" happen on the "Shooting Range" mission and I was RTB to refuel and reload. I did have avast running in the background. It locked up to the point where I had to hard boot my system. Do have the latest patch.

 

Asus M4A78t-e

Phenom2 955 be

4gb ddr3

bfg 8800 gts 640mb

bfg physx

x-fi xtrememusic

Win7 Pro 64bit

[dsobbe]

As per my Post #33, I'm no longer having stoppages since updating my video driver. From what I've read in this thread I get the impression that these stoppages are likely hardware/driver related. Might be a good place to start looking.

I'm having another problem with the Georgian Oil Wars Campaign. At around mission ATO-B-P4.3 the campaign progresses forward for several missions and then I encounter overwhelming superior air forces. That enemy configuration continues as the campaign moves back though three to four earlier missions. Then, this cycle repeats. There doesn't seem to be a way to get past this condition. Needless to say, my Mission Success Rate is below 50% at this point. After repeating this cycle too many times, and also the repeats due to driver problems, I've abandoned the Georgian Oil Wars Campaign. Can anyone tell me whether this endless repeat cycling is a result of my failures or, if a campaign problem, would restarting a new campaign resolve it? If so, how can I start a new campaign?

Thanks.

[Immmer]

I have also been having very similar issues. I have been playing GOW campaign and have been experiencing random hangs, usually (but not always) at the start of missions just after unpausing. I have been able to get by so far by restarting missions; but I have now got to this mission, and I can't get past it. It always hangs just after I unpause at the start.

 

ATO B.P2.1

 

I can ctl-alt-del to task manager after which I get

 

Description:

A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.

 

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: AppHangB1

Application Name: DCS.exe

Application Version: 1.0.1.0

Application Timestamp: 4a7acae0

Hang Signature: c4c4

Hang Type: 2048

OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.4

Locale ID: 2057

Additional Hang Signature 1: c4c4e5a752078d63fcf03949f13636b2

Additional Hang Signature 2: fe4e

Additional Hang Signature 3: fe4e7d3ef9f2f921e4e82f261d56d6cf

Additional Hang Signature 4: c4c4

Additional Hang Signature 5: c4c4e5a752078d63fcf03949f13636b2

Additional Hang Signature 6: fe4e

Additional Hang Signature 7: fe4e7d3ef9f2f921e4e82f261d56d6cf

 

After trying a few things I found that I could eventually get around this issue if instead of pressing pause to start the mission; first press f2 for an external view, then unpause, then take off using the external view for a few seconds - then back into the cockpit - I was then able to continue the mission. So unpause from cockpit = crash; unpause from F2 view= ok.

 

I had the same problem with this mission. Thanks for external view tip, it really worked :pilotfly:.

[nzkase007]

having the same hang/crash errors as others here.both on missions ato-a-p1.1miz and ato-a-p1.2miz and also campaign deployment-stronghold.Random times of freeze but can not finish a particular mission due to freezing.All training modules works without error.Task manager states DCS not responding.Running DCS 1.0.1c, win 7 pro 12gb ram 17 920 3.2, dcs not on c drive core affinity set to all, and priority set to high in task manager.

Also have error log, errors log, event log, but in formats .log .evtx

 

Looking forward to any help you may be able to send my way...

 

Thanks:)

_LastMissionTrack.trk

DxDiag.txt

DxDiag2.txt