DCS World will not launch

[Mmmslash]

Howdy folks,

 

So, last night I was trying to get a P-51 profile to load in, and it just wasn't having it. I tried to bind everything manually, but things were super wonky when I got in game. Mind you, the A10 stuff worked flawlessly for me.

 

I did some research and was lead to believe that the way to uninstall individual modules was to simply delete the aircraft from the DCS World/Mods folder. I did this, relaunched DCS World, and sure enough, P51d is gone.

 

Now I reinstall P-51 and from that moment until now, DCS World or any variant will simply not launch. I have tried to reboot, uninstall and reboot then reinstall. Uninstall and reboot then clear the registry and reboot and then reinstall. Nothing I am doing is allowing me to even launch DCS. The command line prompt will appear for a second, the process will pop up alongside it, and then it'll simply close with no error message or notification.

 

I'm open to any and all suggestions :(

[SkateZilla]

/<Username>/Saved Games/DCS/logs/DCS.LOG

 

This usually happens when you have invalid syntax in LUAs that are processed at startup.

 

Your Control's file is also in the /Saved Games/DCS/ Folder.

 

you might wanna delete those.

[Chippy]

Hello, yeah I know what's wrong. Delete any trace of the P-51 folder in DCS World/Mods, or any that you modified in attempt to fix it. Reinstall them and then launch, it would work fine. It's not launching because there is a module that is not working for whatever reason, or missing the required files to work, say you deleted the cockpit file for the P-51, which is essential, it would not launch untill this was corrected.

 

Hope this helps you. :)

[Mmmslash]

Hello, yeah I know what's wrong. Delete any trace of the P-51 folder in DCS World/Mods, or any that you modified in attempt to fix it. Reinstall them and then launch, it would work fine. It's not launching because there is a module that is not working for whatever reason, or missing the required files to work, say you deleted the cockpit file for the P-51, which is essential, it would not launch untill this was corrected.

 

Hope this helps you. :)

Is this still the case if I have uninstalled and reinstalled DCS World entirely, multiple times during this process?

[Chippy]

If the module still remains, yes.

I know this because it has happened to me before, as well.

[SkateZilla]

the Installers/Uninstallers dont touch the /Users/<username>/Saved Games/DCS/ Folder.

 

which is where DCS Copies your LUA's for your controller assignments.

 

Also make sure the version numbers for the installers match, dont install a newer module onto an older DCSW Build, etc.

[Mmmslash]

the Installers/Uninstallers dont touch the /Users/<username>/Saved Games/DCS/ Folder.

 

which is where DCS Copies your LUA's for your controller assignments.

 

Also make sure the version numbers for the installers match, dont install a newer module onto an older DCSW Build, etc.

Thanks, I'll delete all of that action when I get out of work and give it a try.

 

I'll update this afterwards.

 

Thank you very much.

[SkateZilla]

also uninstall DCS P-51, and make sure the folders for it are irradicated. as residual LUAs with incorrect syntax in the /mods/aircrafts/ folder can cause DCS to not wanna boot.

 

But DCS.LOG should tell you which file it's getting stuck at.

[Mmmslash]

also uninstall DCS P-51, and make sure the folders for it are irradicated. as residual LUAs with incorrect syntax in the /mods/aircrafts/ folder can cause DCS to not wanna boot.

 

But DCS.LOG should tell you which file it's getting stuck at.

Hi again.

 

I deleted all of the control profiles in there, but it still fails to launch. Here is what I get out of dcs.log:

 

00000.000 INFO EDCORE: createSerialQueue IOQueue

00000.123 INFO VFS: Using 'Saved Games': "C:\Users\Faye\Saved Games"

00000.124 INFO DCS: DCS/1.2.2.7570 (x86_64; Windows/6.1.7600)

00000.148 INFO Dispatcher: 2013/1/15 22:31 V1107131420

00000.189 INFO NET: events.lua loaded

00000.190 WARNING LOG: 1 duplicate message(s) skipped.

00000.190 INFO NET: loading ./Scripts/net/default.cfg : OK

00000.190 INFO NET: loading C:\Users\Faye\Saved Games\DCS\Config/network.cfg : OK

00000.190 INFO NET: loading ./Scripts/net/net_types.lua : OK

00000.190 INFO NET: default_conn is 3

00000.227 INFO SOUND: loaded 494 sdefs from "sounds\sdef"

00000.233 INFO SOUND: XAudio2: Using device ID:'{0.0.0.00000000}.{8c0c0cc7-2cb1-4dcf-9011-881a09573dce}' Name:'Speakers (2- Plantronics GameCom 780)', channels: 6

00000.233 INFO SOUND: XAudio2: channel layout: FrontLeft FrontRight FrontCenter LowFrequency SideLeft SideRight

00000.256 INFO SOUND: Using SSE FTZ mode.

00000.263 INFO WorldPlugIns: Loaded plugin module CockpitBase.dll

00000.601 UNKNOWN WinMain: MOD loading: ./mods/aircrafts/Su-25T/entry.lua

00000.602 UNKNOWN WinMain: MOD loading: C:\Users\Faye\Saved Games\DCS\mods/aircrafts/Ka-50/Cockpit/Scripts/ABRIS/Options.lua

00000.602 ERROR DCS: Error running \Scripts\server.lua: [string "C:\Users\Faye\Saved Games\DCS\mods/aircraft..."]:56: attempt to call global 'LOCALIZE' (a nil value)

 

 

Any help would be most appreciated.

[SkateZilla]

open the server.lua file and goto line 56 and paste the entire line. as that's what the log is saying is wrong.

[SkateZilla]

or just delete it, and goto start menu/eagle dynamics/repair, and it will replace it with a fresh one.