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On my end the server is back up and running. We were able to figure out the problem and the solution Grimes from the ED side of things was correct in his proposed solutions.

As mentioned in the other forum, basically the CTTS (transport script) that I was using started its unit counting at 100.

Of course as many of you know I run so many aircraft slots and other vehicles that there was BOUND to be a conflict with any pre-existing vehicle / aircraft given a unit ID of 100+. In the case last night, guys were actually joining A-10C slots but being put in infantry slots assigned by CTTS spawn scripts.

Grimes pointed out the modification and now the unit IDs of the spawned in units will start at 10000. I have a lot of units in my missions- but not THAT many.

Anyway, things are back up and running and any mission running CTTS is updated. Should be smooth sailing from here.

I put up Nuke Plant, spent a couple hours in it, prepping it for the late night squad. Got my goals accomplished and got shot up a bit in the process so took the ol' Warthog back to Min-Vody for a landing. Skidded in on busted gear and got a Server Ping Timeout that showed up on Hollo Pointe as a DCS Stopped Working message.

I was in the mission ^^^ with one other guy - both in A-10Cs.


I'm going back to the F-15 missions for a bit. Looking forward to a new update or three.

WC

We tested your revised mission last night Eno and it worked. I don't think I got to every aircraft because I was quickly engrossed in the sim, but we had SU-25Ts, A-10Cs, a couple of huey's and a Ka-50. No issues.



We even had a new Huey driver in last night. Blindone got the huey and was trying it out for the first time. He didn't do too bad from what I saw. East Bound and Down isn't a good mission for the weapons on the Huey but he was flying more than crashing it which was way better than what I could do when I first got it.

I've set up eastbound and down now to occupy the Huey's and mi8 with other tasks that involve moving troops to the front before the invasion and evacuating personnel during the invasion- so they really shouldn't be shooting much- they should be too busy de-assifying the base.

Thanks for all your help getting it setup Mol, Wheel, and Near_blind... I really enjoyed the new challenge of the Huey. After blowing up 4-5 of them i finally made it over to Sushi, but then couldn't land and killed all the guys on the ground when I stalled the chopper.

LOL well now that's one way of managing the evacuees.

With that being said... perhaps I need to manage that a bit differently so that you don't have to land so close to them.

Yeah.. it was the group in the middle of the tarmac that I mutilated. keep in mind, I only have about 1 hour of flight time in the huey and no landings that have been successful yet.

Thanks for reminding me- have to remove those anyway

If that mission, or another with the huey is up when I get online tonight I'll hopefully do a bit better.

Just got the word - my company's building in Longmont CO is closing due to the rain and flooding. The drive in this morning was slow with three detours around flooded bridges. A few bridges have been washed out. The nearby town of Lyons is cutoff, and the highway up to Estes Park is washed out.

WC

that means you can play alllll day, right??? Hope you're fairing out better than us.. our roof started leaking last night in a few places...

Crap you guys- hope you make out okay. We had floods up here that destroyed half a nearby city a few months ago (called High River ironically) so I can understand the challenges you're facing. If it doesn't get you from the outside sometimes it gets you from the inside- sewer water backs up and yeah you guessed it- poop central.

Hoping it doesn't reach out to you guys that way but get those computers off the floor just in case!

Gawd, I wish I could get some roof damage so insurance would help me replace it.

Took about three hours to get home through Longmont, with all the flooding -- it's normally a 20 minute drive.

Have to go to a meeting now :-( The basement is dry, thank goodness.

WC

my brother works up there and said their store was about 1 foot under... I'm going to check with insurance after the storm clears and see what/if they will do about our leaks... they were only on the vents but maybe I can "get" a new one

VERY IMPORTANT SERVER / CLIENT CRASH UPDATE:


http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=113874

Common answers appear to be resolving 90% of the issues with 1.2.6. These answers can be described as the 5 R's. RAM / Repair / Rename / Reinstall / registry



RAM: Sorry folks- it seems the minimum requirements for the sim are going up and I'm not sure 3-4 megs of RAM are going to cut it. Time after time we're seeing reports that even with the 32bit RAM modification it's not working and resulting in consistent crashes. Someone from ED want to officially dispel this- well then be my guest. As it is now... probably time to upgrade to 64 bit and at LEAST 6 gigs of RAM. Quite frankly, 8 gigs has, from what I'm seeing, become the new minimum standard.



REPAIR: Enter your start programs / Eagle Dynamics / DCS World and click "Repair DCS World." C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin is the location of the "zweiBlau.dll" file that is consistently showing up in crash logs. I have renamed it (backed it up) and repaired. The program re-wrote the file. I'm testing this now to see if I get the error again (probably but hey, who knows).


RENAME DCS SAVED GAMES FOLDER: Go into user / Saved Games / and rename your DCS folder to DCS1. Go back in and restart your game, SP or MP... preferably both as some files need to be re-written into the folder. This will "reset" the folder which, for many reasons, isn't changed when you reinstall or repair. Some of your settings will be lost- however bit by bit you can go back into DCS1 and transfer over your custom settings. As Cameleon33 says here: For me, the only files I needed to delete where the "network.cfg" and "network.vault" files that are in Saved Games/DCS/Config

After that you just need to re-enter you login/password for master server and to resetup your server parameters.



REINSTALL: Simply uninstall and reinstall your program. Consider renaming your saved games DCS folder in the meantime as mentioned above.


REGISTRY: Also- entering the registry and removing user keys from modules experiencing "xxxxprotect.dll" errors has helped at least 1 person resolve those crashes (for now.) Doesn't sound like many people but who knows how many are silently combing the forums and fixing these issues in the background. Worth a try anyway.

Eno what happened to the Killbox? Didn't see it in the list.

It's there again. When I edited it I missed a .


You scared me there!

Also, users should check their swap file Setting.

With Swap File ON, in SP, DCS.exe never uses more than 3.25GB in the pre-made missions (seriously)
With Swap File OFF, the DCS.exe Memory Usage climbs and continues to climb until DCS.EXE uses all available free ram and windows Kills the process for Access_Violation.


I know alot of people that run with swap file off (for SSD sake w/ large amounts of ram, etc etc).

But it seems if there's no swap file, DCS.EXE has no where to dump the memory items and as you fly around and more things get loaded into the memory, eventually it crashes the process.

DCS.exe went all the way up to 14GB before windows killed it on my system.

Also, Game Mode Avionics causes a Crash.

Geez, raining again in Colorado - more flash flood warnings, also warning about drinking water quality now.

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I followed the advice above for the two 'network' files, Eno. Had to reset the Start On Pause for Hollo Pointe. I cleared out the logs and MP tracks.

The server has been up for a couple of days, but thought to replace those files anyway.

Sure are a lot of crash postings at DCS...

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WC