New Win7 install; nothing but crashes with DCS

[Dawks [PIR]]

Re-written to summarize:

fearlessfrog pointed out that A10-C requires 64bit. So I checked and that's true.

Ka-50 ran wonderfully on XP. I don't know how.
But I ended up spending $70 on that ... and now another $40 on A-10C.

HeyHo, my mistake.

[fearlessfrog]

Hi - could you run through the steps in trouble-shooting list please?

http://steamcommunity.com/app/223750/discussions/0/864975249578683704/

If they all don't help, then please list full specs. You need a 64-bit OS and 6GB of RAM.

[Dawks [PIR]]

Ooh, sure will! and gladly!
wait, what? 64bit?!

ReWriting the post.
thanks 'frog

[Tatsue]

C:\Users\XXXXXX\SavedGames\DCS\Logs\

Any crash logs there? If so, what do they say?

[Jetkar]

Main cause for crashes is that DCS is dependant on the Graphics card and direct draw (Dx)...the crash logs will show that

[Dawks [PIR]]

Didn't know that.
To tell the truth old Ka-50 ran just fine on XP ... which, of course, was 32 bit. Is why I went on to update it and buy A-10C.
Shot myself in the foot!

see you all in mmmmm 6 months or so, after I build a new box.

[Jetkar]

Since the last update the game must run on a 64bit OS the reason for this is that as you may know they are in the process of upgrading the game engine to EDGE and has notthing to do with A 10C module

[Dawks [PIR]]

"has notthing to do with A 10C module" ... except that the A-10C requires 64bit. Which is the point. Shot myself in the foot, there.
So my $70 Ka-50 is now a waste of space. That ... I kinda resent that.

[fearlessfrog]

If you have recently rebuilt your PC (from the original message before the edit) then don't forget that if you own a Windows 7 32 bit license key then you also already own the 64 bit version, it doesn't cost anything to use the 64-bit version.

Also, if you want to (or need to) use previous versions of DCS World (if you can't move to 64-bit) then outside of Steam you can look at doing installs and updates via this:

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=114030

[Dawks [PIR]]

Ooh! froggie! I wasn't aware of that!
But I'll probably start from scratch. This box (pretty good in its day) is AM3 socket, so seriously dead-ended. Will repurpose it for work, and ReDo from Start with DCS in mind. (Which will do my ArmA3 performance a lot of good.)
But that does open an option.
thanks
^5

[Dawks [PIR]]

This aulde dawg but his teeth programming with DIP switches. (Yes, I mean bit by bit, ReDo from Start with any error.)
So for me 64bit OS is a bit like Science Fiction ... or for work stations.

I very comfortably assumed that for me Win7-64 was dreaming in technicolor. It turns out that my game box (built to run XP) will run this very well.

Long/Short? I'm gonna do a full re-install and so, see you in the field!

^5
--Dawks