I’ve had 3 crashes within a half hour.
After I’ve installed fresh display drivers and disabled mods. It seems like DCS gets more and more unstable with subsequent updates.
I’ve had insisted to me, to the point of being threatened with warning, that ED’s project managers have the big picture in mind. And, yet, the game is increasing in instability.
Yeah, well I got a bridge to sell you.
EDIT: 4. Sweet. Thanks, guys. Bang up job.
Am I crazy or at some point in 2.9 did we not have carrier flood lights illuminating aircraft cockpits? I swear that was a thing because I distinctly remember a few sessions where the flood lights lit up my cockpit enough to not need a flashlight for startup, but recently the cockpits have been pitch black, and I can’t find any screenshots or videos to “prove” my memory isn’t gaslighting me.
I’m not a guru on DCS crashing but, at a very high level this can sometimes get you looking in the correct place…
When it does a CTD in your “Saved Games\Logs” folder there should be a file:
dcs.log-[date]-[bunch of numbers].zip, ie; dcs.log-20241208-123456.zip
In that file is a file with the extension .crash.
It is a text file. Open that in your text editor and you’ll see lines that are mostly unusable to the end-user, with the exception of the 3rd line, like so:
DCS/2.9.9.2474 (x86_64; MT; Windows NT 10.0.22631)
This line >>> C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin\GraphicsCore.dll
…bunch of stuff you wont be able to use.
This hints it may be something with the graphics hardware, like drivers. Or shaders - the ‘GraphicsCore.dll’
When I fat-finger my scripts I’ll see;
C:\Program Files…\Lua.dll << meaning I’ve likely hosed up something in my scripts == my fault (then I look elsewhere like the dcs.log file and it can show me the exact line if my error).
This lua example I’m sure not useful to you but you can see how it might tell you what ‘town’ the problem resides (graphics hardward/drivers or the lua engine in the above examples). Finding the exact address can be a bit trickier.
I kind of brute forced my way into a fix;
Mods removed, repair ran, even cleaned out the shaders and fxo folders multiple times.
It’s a lot since I made a texture for DCS … I did read something about Eagle Dynamics making them locked? What happens? Users can’t make liveries anymore?
I heard they encrypted some, a lot?, of things recently. No facts on my part.
S-3 had some stuff locked. A while back its files got moved from the Bazar folder to CoreMods/tech/HeavyMetalCore, which appears to be the payware HD assets they’re working on.
Inside that there’s a Textures folder that has a zip of the S-3B and other assets. The 3D model is locked in some “.edce” files in the Shapes folder, meaning we can’t even check the model or liveries in the Model Viewer.
S-3B liveries still work from the Liveries folder in Saved Games, but a filename change broke the description.lua files. All of the dds files used to be “low_S3BViking_” but now they’re “low_KS-3A_.” Fix those in the description.lua and it works.
The change doesn’t make any sense because the KS-3A never went into production. “Tanker” Vikings are just stock Vikings with a buddy store.
Wow! Thanks, that’s an exhaustive explanation! 
Apparently new patch today (subject to change)
Mentioned by bignewy over at ed
Iraq and hopefully a hotfix for the Supercarrier.
Iraq would be a fabulous Christmas Gift 
That would perfect. 
Introduced a new terrain module: DCS: Iraq map by Eagle Dynamics
Introduced a new terrain module: DCS: Iraq North map by Eagle Dynamics
Systems:
Radio and navigation:
Input:
Textures and 3D models:
General:
DCS: UH-1H The Huey Last Show Campaign by SorelRo
DCS: F-16C The Gamblers Campaign by Baltic Dragon
First 1 minute test:
F18 Lot 20
Over Baghdad at ~1500 AGL
Looked good. And with all those buildings and such it ran pretty well. Note this was in 2D 1440 but saw nothing bad [compared to say Syria].
Can someone refresh me here: This map WILL be extended south at some point, right?
Ok, from the forum, @NineLine
For the full version of DCS: Iraq you will receive the entire red area, with the higher detailed blue and green areas as well. (The red area outside the green and blue areas will be in lower detail.)
For the DCS: Iraq North you will receive the entire red area with the higher detailed blue area. (the green area will be low detail with this option)
For DCS: Iraq South you will receive the entire red area with the higher detailed green area. (the blue area will be low detail with this option)
I see my confusion here…
I pre-purchased them all. The update had these checked:
Iraq
Iraq North
But what I got, in the ME, only goes to here, approx:
Too little time to keep up with all this, but perhaps this is why:
From @NineLine on a deep forum dive:
“Iraq North will enter early access today, 11th December 2024”
The confusing part was there was the option to install both (‘Iraq’ and ‘Iraq North’).
