Crash to black screen

[Panp]

1.2.7 beta

 

It also was crashing on 1.2.6 which is why I was trying the 1.2.7 beta

 

 

I'm getting a random crash to a lock up and then to a black screen.

It is happening at a random time frame, sometime within a few minutes and sometime after 10 to 15 minutes and sometimes not at all.

symtons are all the same,

Picture freezes up then the game sound freezes and then a crash to a black screen all within a few( 15) seconds.

Hard reset required to restart windows.

 

It will happen with the P51 / Uh1 / A10 C modules.

 

I have cleared out all old ms visual c ++ with Revo uninstaller that will also clear out registry files after removel and reinstalled MS visual c++ 2012

 

Im running the same res as desktop (2560x 1600) with 4 x AA.

it has happened on the P51 free flight and also the training missions.

It has happened on the dogfight the 190 mission.

UH1 free flight and oil rig mission.

 

I did not have DCS world installed before and did not have any issue or crashes with the A10 C / FC 1 or the KA 50

 

latest crash was on the UH1 free flight after about 10 minutes of flying.

 

I did notice that textures on buildings started to flicker in and out right before this latest crash.

 

Systen specs are

X 58 clasified mother board

Intel I 975 / quad core extreem processer at stock clocks 3.2 water cooled

16 gigs of 1600 mhz ram

Nividia titian video card at stock settings

Dell 30 inch 3011 on displayport 1.2

1200 wat PSU

win 7 pro on intel 530 SSD

Games folder on second Intel 530 SSD

 

Video card temps are normal at 60 c during game play.

latest Dx run time installed

 

No other games I play on this system have issue or will crash like this !

 

 

The Me file

=== Log opened UTC 2014-01-04 05:40:39

00000.000 INFO VFS: Using 'Saved Games': "C:\Users\panp1\Saved Games"

00000.001 INFO LAUNCHER: Launch command: K:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\dcs.exe --noreplay --trackfile "C:\Users\panp1\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS.openbeta\LastMissionTrack.trk" "C:\Users\panp1\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS.openbeta\tempMission.miz"

 

the trk file

6.3 M

 

Panp

DCS.openbeta.rar

Logs.rar

Edited January 4, 2014 by Panp

[EtherealN]

When a hard reset is needed, this is most likely a driver or hardware error. Not having the same issue with other applications does unfortunately not fully eliminate this, since different applications will do things different ways, so it is fully possible for one application to trigger a fault than no others does.

 

Do you have any crash logs?

If not, you should be able to retrieve entries with the same information from windows Event Viewer.

[Panp]

I disagree with the hardware issue as my system is rock solid.

Part of good trouble shooting is looking at what has changed and going back to the last thing that was changed, I this case it would be DCS world.

I have a dual boot system with this same operating system imaged on another drive which has A10 C / FC 1 and black shark on it without the DCS world and all run just fine.

 

I have also so ran a disk check and sfc / scanow with no reported issue.

I have also uninstalled nvidia drivers and installed an older driver set (same results)

Changed page file and size and location to another drive.

I have many other games that are demanding on a system and have not had any issues.

I have run many a stress test on this system with out any issue or crashes

 

all in all this points to DCS World 1.26 and 1.27 as the culprit.

 

Bottom line for me is that I just paid for additional content that requires DCS world to work and that isn't happening.

Hopefully they will get enough info and will be able to find the root cause.

Panp

[EtherealN]

Part of good troubleshooting is also to understand how the software works - including the OS.

 

One of the major landmarks Microsoft finally crossed, starting with Vista and doing even better in 7, is to segregate applications from the OS itself. This is helped by architectures taken from the server OS world, where you really do not want an application to be able to bring down the system, no matter what.

 

In the case of later versions of windows, it was done through moving certain things out of "Kernelspace" and into "Userland". For example drivers and the calls made from applications to said drivers. (This is why you no longer have to reboot your computer to update a graphics driver.)

 

Be that as it may, however, if you were to have a crash file or be able to find the crash through windows event viewer, this would be very helpful in discerning the cause.

 

A DxDiag output file could also be helpful, just to check drivers and suchlike without having to ask for each one.

[ENO]

I see those system specs- any audio devices or you running onboard sound?

 

Also are you running your SSds off the Marvell controller?

Edited January 5, 2014 by ENO

[Panp]

Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty in PCI express 1x slot

SSD are on the south bridge sata controller

[Wolf Rider]

have you tried running without both or either of the [ --noreplay --trackfile ] commands?

 

just a thought

[Panp]

I'm not familiar with that [ --noreplay --trackfile ] commands?

How can I try this and what and where would one use this command?

[AtaliaA1]

With that system I would believe it is your Page File. You mentioned changing it around. Did you put it at default (Windows Controlled) to see if the error was repeatable then?

 

Were are you I want to fly the A10c on that machine of yours!!!!!!!!:)