DCS 2.8

Flight Sims
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Since MT I too have had to do the reset (not a clean install, a ‘repair’) several times.

FWIW (and not related to your issue) DCS MT would start and I’d get the tool bar icon but nothing on the monitor? Alt-Tab and it would be displayed as a choice to select for focus.

But selecting it did nothing. Acted like the window DCS was in was off screen (it was configured to run in a window). Right-click on icon to “Move” wasn’t enabled. Scratching my head as this isn’t something that I recall ever happening with any app.

Likely better way to resolve but what I did:
Went into the DCS options.cfg and set full screen = true. DCS then restarted fine in full screen. I reset it to run in a window via settings then restarted DCS. No issues since.

  • Had it set to a window resolution ~1/2 my desktop
  • Desktop was at max res for this hardware
  • I did have 2 IDE’s (programming app used to write applications) running simultaneously, all 3 together are highly taxing on this system I’m sure.

The last point may make this a edge-case not likely to be experienced by many; I run DCS in a window while debugging. I throw it out there just in case someone sees this.

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930

Try Windows Key and ← and → Arrows.

It should cycle the window position, but the window’s last position is retained somewhere, just dont remember where.

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931

Tried that. It was an odd issue to be sure.

932

So, reporting back on the DCS Nuke fallout…
It seems like reinstalling made a difference.
No crashes so far, even in situations that were 9/10 reproduceable.
And I am really impressed with the Normandy 2 map! Getting just 30-40 FPS over London though. Need to install that dynamic foveated rendering add on again… Let’s see if that caused the issues I had.
I have also started googling CPU’s and stuff… :grimacing:

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933

there is a hotfix planned for today … just announced over on the ED forum… dont know what its for

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934

Just got the release notes from ED official discord

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935

yep looks like just adding missions and third party campaign support for the new map

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936

Aaaahrg!
Started crashing again.
Ok, back to the single thread exe for me.
When running the ST version, I realized I had much better performance, than the MT…!? This was not the case, when MT was first introduced.
WTH…?

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937

What CPU are you using?

938

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

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939

Huh, that one oughta benefit from MT greatly…

It’s not like one of those new ones (Intel 13x00 or AMD 7x00) where they have two different types of cores for light and heavy work where DCS tends to get confused.

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940

I haven’t been playing a ton lately but I noticed that MT was giving me crashes too. Which sucks cause I was getting better performance. On the flip side I have so many mods and textures loaded my install might just be dying :eyes:

941

Right?
It did, when MT was released. I remember the WOW factor.
Maybe I should look into possible driver issues…?

942

Attach Crash Log Files.

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943

same CPU as mine … and so far (fingers crossed) no crashes yet

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944

Here are a couple
dcs.log-20230423-122213.zip (664.9 KB)
dcs.log-20230423-135157.zip (651.0 KB)

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945

Elite dangerous was unplayable for me the other day after I updated it, updated drivers and haven’t had an issue since so that’s a real possibility.

946

Looks Like DirectX11 Access Violation, in both crashes.
You’d have to run the MS Dump Debugger tool thingy on your system for it to tell you where that memory address is.

it could be unstable GPU Power/Clocks.

ST Mode uses less power as CPU is core limited, MT Mode will use significantly more power in large missions with more cores running.

This could cause a Power Draw large enough to effect GPU stability.

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947

What’s this and where do I find it?

948

Should be part of WinDbg,
Windows Event Viewer / System / Software & Hardware Logs may also show more.

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