Raven_Morpheus Posted December 21, 2013 Posted December 21, 2013 (edited) Hello Just purchased the UH-1H module and went to play it. However upon loading a mission DCS World "stops working" just after the small splash screen appears on my desktop. I've tried it without UH-1H installed via the module manager and it still happens. DCS World on it's own (no additional modules) was working fine the other day?! This is what I'm getting in my me.log without UH-1H installed in the module manager - === Log opened UTC 2013-12-21 06:38:04 00000.000 INFO VFS: Using 'Saved Games': "C:\Users\Raven Morpheus\Saved Games" 00000.001 INFO LAUNCHER: Launch command: D:\DCS World\bin\dcs.exe --trackfile "C:\Users\RAVENM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS\LastMissionTrack.trk" "C:\Users\RAVENM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS\tempMission.miz" 00004.695 UNKNOWN main: locale: en EN 00004.736 UNKNOWN main: me_db_api creation started 00004.983 UNKNOWN main: MOD loading: Scripts/Database//CoreModules/WWII Units/entry.lua 00004.984 UNKNOWN main: MOD loading: Scripts/Database//CoreModules/WWII Units/FW-190D9.lua 00004.984 UNKNOWN main: MOD loading: Scripts/Database//CoreModules/WWII Units/Views.lua 00004.985 UNKNOWN main: MOD loading: ./mods/aircrafts/Su-25T/entry.lua 00004.985 UNKNOWN main: MOD loading: ./mods/aircrafts/Uh-1H/entry.lua 00004.986 UNKNOWN main: MOD loading: ./mods/aircrafts/Uh-1H/Views.lua 00004.986 UNKNOWN main: MOD loading: ./DemoMods/tech/CombinedArms/entry.lua 00004.986 UNKNOWN main: MOD loading: ./DemoMods/aircrafts/A-10A/entry.lua 00004.987 UNKNOWN main: MOD loading: ./DemoMods/aircrafts/A-10C/entry.lua 00004.987 UNKNOWN main: MOD loading: ./DemoMods/aircrafts/Flaming Cliffs/entry.lua 00004.987 UNKNOWN main: MOD loading: ./DemoMods/aircrafts/Ka-50/entry.lua 00004.987 UNKNOWN main: MOD loading: ./DemoMods/aircrafts/Mi-8MTV2/entry.lua 00004.987 UNKNOWN main: MOD loading: ./DemoMods/aircrafts/P-51D/entry.lua 00004.987 UNKNOWN main: MOD loading: ./DemoMods/aircrafts/Su-25A/entry.lua 00004.987 UNKNOWN main: MOD loading: ./DemoMods/aircrafts/Uh-1H/entry.lua 00004.987 UNKNOWN main: PLUGINS START------------------------------------------------- 00004.987 UNKNOWN main: plugin: World War II AI Units by Eagle Dynamics applied 00004.988 UNKNOWN main: plugin: Su-25T by Eagle Dynamics applied 00004.988 UNKNOWN main: plugin: UH-1H Huey by Belsimtek skipped, not authorized 00004.988 UNKNOWN main: plugin: Combined Arms by Eagle Dynamics applied 00004.988 UNKNOWN main: plugin: Flaming Cliffs by Eagle Dynamics applied 00004.988 UNKNOWN main: plugin: A-10A by Eagle Dynamics applied 00004.988 UNKNOWN main: plugin: A-10C Warthog by Eagle Dynamics applied 00004.988 UNKNOWN main: plugin: Ka-50 Black Shark by Eagle Dynamics applied 00004.988 UNKNOWN main: plugin: Mi-8MTV2 Hip by Belsimtek applied 00004.988 UNKNOWN main: plugin: P-51D Mustang by Eagle Dynamics applied 00004.988 UNKNOWN main: plugin: Su-25A by Eagle Dynamics applied 00004.988 UNKNOWN main: PLUGINS DONE-------------------------------------------------- 00004.993 UNKNOWN main: ./MissionEditor/data/scripts/unitsclasses.lua loaded 00004.997 UNKNOWN main: ./MissionEditor/data/NewMap/classifier.lua loaded 00005.084 UNKNOWN main: me_db_api creation complete 00005.109 UNKNOWN main: options data successfully loaded 00005.109 UNKNOWN main: UH-1H: options data successfully loaded 00005.130 INFO EDCORE: createSerialQueue IOQueue 00005.131 ERROR VFS: add_location {"My Missions", "C:\Users\Raven Morpheus\Saved Games\DCS\Missions\"}: path already added as "My Missions" 00009.556 ERROR DXGUI_EDGE_RENDER: Cannot load texture '' 00009.672 INFO SOUND: loaded 596 sdefs from ".\sounds\sdef" 00009.681 INFO SOUND: XAudio2: Using device ID:'{0.0.0.00000000}.{46ea5f54-9550-47dc-8189-3896474f4510}' Name:'ATI HDMI Output (2- ATI High Definition Audio Device)', channels: 2 00009.681 INFO SOUND: XAudio2: channel layout: Headphones/Stereo 00009.704 INFO SOUND: Using SSE FTZ/DAZ mode. 00010.105 UNKNOWN main: Cannot load skin[windowHeaderSkin] from file [nil] 00010.151 UNKNOWN main: error loading news nil 00015.002 UNKNOWN main: Mission C:\Users\RAVENM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS\tempMission.miz loaded 00017.401 UNKNOWN main: checking introduction C:\Users\RAVENM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS\tempMission.miz 00017.405 UNKNOWN main: introduction found 00020.386 UNKNOWN main: turning log false 00020.394 INFO SOUND: detaching sdef path ".\sounds\sdef\" === Log closed. I'm running it on Win 7 64 bit, and I've tried altering my resolution and screen setup (because I thought it might be because I was running in 2820x1080 on 2 screens) back to 1920x1080 on 1 screen. Please could someone give me some help on this? Thanks. EDIT - it appears to be something on my system rather than the game, because I just tried it in a clean Windows 7 64bit install that I keep on my system and dual boot (specifically for when I get problems like this) and DCS World ran fine, even without being properly installed in that operating system. DCS Black Shark 1 also seems to be giving me a similar problem (but with a visual C++ runtime error when I use DCSMax to launch a mission and the front end won't even load!!). Thing is I don't know what's changed on my system between December 16th and today!!! :( I installed some older games (Janes Longbow 2) which required a glide wrapper, which I've since unistalled, and I installed Enemy Engaged Apache vs Havoc and Commanche vs Hokum and the community made 1.15 patch!! I also installed a microsoft .net framework 4 package (can't recall why, it was something to do with one of the games I installed), but I've uninstalled that today. I've also had no windows updates installed since last playing DCS World. And I cannot do a system restore back to the 16th because I don't appear to have a restore point for then! Edited December 21, 2013 by Raven_Morpheus
Raven_Morpheus Posted December 21, 2013 Author Posted December 21, 2013 (edited) Epic fail by me!! I uninstalled and reinstalled DCS World, therefore losing all the graphics tweaks I had done to get a decent framerate and now I've remembered I had this problem before... Turns out DCS (Black Shark 1 and World) does not like having my XBCD Xbox 360 pad enabled and/or my Saitek X45 disabled (I play racing games with my gamepad and my Saitek X45 comes up as device 1 so my gamepad isn't device 1 live it should be) in device manager!!! I had to go and disable the gamepad to get DCS World (and Black Shark 1) to work. Apologies for posting, I should have realised what was wrong in the first place, certainly would have saved me time, especially as I now have to re-tweak DCS World to get back my decent framerate and reset all my controls on my Saitek X45 (because I also removed my C:\users>[username]>saved games>DCS folder in case it was a problem with the files in there)!! Doh!!! Edited December 21, 2013 by Raven_Morpheus
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