P-51D Server Bulletins

[Merlin-27]

Shutting down the server until I have the patience to try again. Waste of electricity at this point. DCS has crashed 6 times in the last 30 mins after updating to 1.2.6.17746 with no changes made to the mission file. So much for my hopes of improved MP performance.

[NineLine]

I know everyone is frustrated, if you could include any info and such in this thread I will try and get someone to look into it deeper... http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=111014

[Merlin-27]

I know everyone is frustrated, if you could include any info and such in this thread I will try and get someone to look into it deeper... http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=111014

 

Thanks man, appreciate the response. When I get a chance I'll try to pull some data. I do know I saw some error saying the FW-190D9 module is needed. I'm guessing this is referring to the AI 190s in the mission... but I am not sure why that would have changed post update.

 

EDIT: couldn't resist poking around. Has the FW-190D9 always been the only aircraft in /Bazar/Liveries/ that is written in all CAPS? Just seems odd.

Edited September 5, 2013 by Merlin-27

[NineLine]

Did you try resaving your mission, its possible they changed something with the 190 and its become an issue.

[Merlin-27]

Did you try resaving your mission, its possible they changed something with the 190 and its become an issue.

 

The re-save didn't resolve it... still crashes within a few minutes. Trying a few other ideas.

 

EDIT: I tried creating a mission from scratch. Interestingly, No FW-190D9 is listed in the drop-down for aircraft. As I said before there is a populated FW-190D9 folder in the /bazar/liveries/ directory. And in the module manager there exists a WWII AI Units item. Was that always there?

Edited September 5, 2013 by Merlin-27

[NineLine]

The re-save didn't resolve it... still crashes within a few minutes. Trying a few other ideas.

 

EDIT: I tried creating a mission from scratch. Interestingly, No FW-190D9 is listed in the drop-down for aircraft. As I said before there is a populated FW-190D9 folder in the /bazar/liveries/ directory. And in the module manager there exists a WWII AI Units item. Was that always there?

 

 

I think they are moving things around, not sure why, but I can think of a number of things.

[xcom]

The reason we get the FW-190D9 module error is because it is no longer in the module manager options.

Merlin I put up the DCS Israel server with some FW-190D9s and it worked ok, I don't think the 190s are the problem.

 

I'm kinda speechless at the moment, my server is still up since last night.... could it be that we got a majoy fix here?

Merlin, what do you u have in the crash log?

[Merlin-27]

The reason we get the FW-190D9 module error is because it is no longer in the module manager options.

Merlin I put up the DCS Israel server with some FW-190D9s and it worked ok, I don't think the 190s are the problem.

 

I'm kinda speechless at the moment, my server is still up since last night.... could it be that we got a majoy fix here?

Merlin, what do you u have in the crash log?

 

Xcom, you are right about the FW-190. I must have been tired and cranky last night. It would help for me to choose Germany instead of USA when I am looking to add the 190 to the map. My mistake.

 

As far as the crashing, that was pretty consistent and I could not resolve it. I'm wondering if I need to redo my mission from scratch. I need to run off to work soon but I'll work on getting the crash log and other info.

 

 

EDIT: This seems to be the re-occuring item in the crash log... ATC issue?

# C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at EBA706EA 00:00000000

00000000 00000000 0000:00000000

EBA706EA 0023DED0 0000:00000000 ?getLandingClient@woATC@@QEAA_NAEBUClientData@@AEAULandingClient@@@Z()+3FA

Edited September 5, 2013 by Merlin-27

[xcom]

Well it does look like it is related to communications somehow.

The patch did include some fixes for communications issues and they added ATC to the koznatzov.

[NineLine]

If you guys can crash your servers with contacts to ATC, that would be a great track to submit... it could be a coincidence though...

 

If one of yo can load op your servers, have a client run through ATC comms right away and see what happens, if it crashes please same the track file.

 

Xcom, you are right about the FW-190. I must have been tired and cranky last night. It would help for me to choose Germany instead of USA when I am looking to add the 190 to the map. My mistake.

 

As far as the crashing, that was pretty consistent and I could not resolve it. I'm wondering if I need to redo my mission from scratch. I need to run off to work soon but I'll work on getting the crash log and other info.

 

 

EDIT: This seems to be the re-occuring item in the crash log... ATC issue?

# C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at EBA706EA 00:00000000

00000000 00000000 0000:00000000

EBA706EA 0023DED0 0000:00000000 ?getLandingClient@woATC@@QEAA_NAEBUClientData@@AEAULandingClient@@@Z()+3FA

[xcom]

Server crashed, it has nothing to do with P-51s but I think by the crash log it has something to do with the communications.

 

Logs attached, link for the track file -

https://www.dropbox.com/s/utjzb5jp4g2qufk/server-20130905-072543.trk

 

Let me know if you need anything else.

Logs.zip

[NineLine]

Can you tell me what communications were taking place at the time?

[xcom]

I can't because I wasn't in the server, just found afterwards that it had crashed.

Anything else I can upload here to help out?

[NineLine]

Any chance you can run the server for a short time with no mods installed, including any server management mods?

[xcom]

It is already running with no mods, I had SLMod installed once but I removed it after noticing it hits performance.

 

The server is up right now (DCS Israel), we have random guys going in and out, waiting for the next crash :(

[NineLine]

Have you had a crash with no 3rd party server tool running? Also are the missions you are running using any form of scripts? Can you post your missions?

 

It is already running with no mods, I had SLMod installed once but I removed it after noticing it hits performance.

 

The server is up right now (DCS Israel), we have random guys going in and out, waiting for the next crash :(

[xcom]

Yes, the crash happend with no 3rd party mod/server tool.

 

I think you can extract the mission from the track file I uploaded before, It does use a small part of respawn scripting.

[NineLine]

if you get another crash, can you try a mission with no scripting? Sorry to be a pain, but trying to eliminate everything....

 

Yes, the crash happend with no 3rd party mod/server tool.

 

I think you can extract the mission from the track file I uploaded before, It does use a small part of respawn scripting.

[xcom]

Ok, I'll make sure to do that and post the crash logs if I get any crash with a mission that doesn't have any scripts.

[NineLine]

Thanks for your effort, maybe one day I can find the time to come get shot down on your server lol....

[Merlin-27]

Hey guys, I've been at work. When I get home I can post my mission file. It has crashed every time within the first 10 minutes. I'd be curious if it does the same on other machines

 

EDIT:

I just tried running my River Raiders 7 mission on the server two more times. I uninstalled slmod for this set of tests. DCS crashed with same error exactly 1 minute and 40 seconds after mission start both times. Same atc error code that I listed above. No coms were heard or initiated by the client. I suspect it is some interaction with the AI air units.

 

Attached is my mission file...

 

EDIT2:

Re-made the mission without any AI aircraft. Does not appear to crash now. I flew to a friendly airbase and tried to initiate as much ATC traffic as possible with no game crash result. Convinced it's an AI atc issue with 1.2.6 in the original mission.

River Raiders 7.miz

Edited September 6, 2013 by Merlin-27

[xcom]

Ok, im uploading logs from todays mission.

Today we had a massive multiplayer P-51D dogfight in our server, I made sure there were no scripts running in the mission, we had some people getting runtime errors, getting connection interrupted and eventualy also a server crash.

 

Attached are the logs from the crash (again looks like something to do with communications)

Also attached the mission file, you can take a look it's such a simple mission, only client planes at 2 airbases (i tried to make is as light as possible).

 

I really hope this will help with getting a fix for MP stability.

 

P.S -

Also on the same note, please can we have a fix for the P-51D tracers/bullets FPS killer? or maybe a workaround?

We have a lot of guys who want to fly in the P-51 in this massive multiplayer environment we are trying to build, but we can't accommodate it, not with server stability and not with the major FPS hit the tracers/bullets create.

Logs.zip

P-51D Dogfight IAF&Anon6.miz

[Merlin-27]

Yes, xcom, the FPS was the only thing hindering an amazing session of dogfighting. We all hate to claim FPS hurt us... but it was realllly bad.

Three of us watched you fly into the ground one time with a bunch of dust...then re-emerge behind me. Was the wildest thing! It reminded me of that movie "Tremors"! :megalol:

 

Also, I was just flying on my server and encountered something very odd. The ATC changes seem to be possessed! I landed at Nalchik and I was trying to repair while I watched all four ground start Client aircraft spawn and start up with no one selecting them on the server. There was radio coms with the tower and they all taxied in succession. After the four P-51Ds taxied by me they all just disappeared. All AI units were previously removed from my mission. The ATC/airfield AI is bugged and it is creating havok. On the bright side... it never crashed.

Edited September 7, 2013 by Merlin-27

[gavagai]

Thanks for your servers guys. I've had a fun time, especially with Merlin and the WW2 server. I am out until the ffb thing is fixed. It was fine in 1.2.5 but 1.2.6 has broken ffb. There's a delay when I just try to fire the guns now, or press any button at all.:(

 

I will be back when it's resolved.;)

[Merlin-27]

Thanks for your servers guys. I've had a fun time, especially with Merlin and the WW2 server. I am out until the ffb thing is fixed. It was fine in 1.2.5 but 1.2.6 has broken ffb. There's a delay when I just try to fire the guns now, or press any button at all.:(

 

I will be back when it's resolved.;)

 

Man that blows... sorry to hear it. No hope of disabling FFB until resolved?