Anyone having trouble launching IL2 BOS/BOM/BOK since the Win10 update last week ?

[109driver]

Hi all,

 

Since the Win10 update on the 12 Dec I have been unable to launch IL2 ...... the main start screen comes up then it disappears .... not even to the task bar  .... fails to start fullstop.

 

I changed nothing to cause this .. just the Windows update

 

Suggestions  anyone ? I'm desperate to get back flying !  Especially with the new stuff about to drop

 

cheers

 

Mike 

[ShamrockOneFive]

I assume you got the latest Fall Update just recently. It rolled out to different people at different times so I guess its your turn now.

 

No, I didn't have that problem but I did with some other titles. I'd try and start the launcher from the game's directory and see if it works from there. It may be your shortcut that was damaged... I had a couple of applications get their shortcuts messed with. Not sure if they changed something on the file system or what caused it but it certainly happened.

[Jade_Monkey]

No issues here.

 

Try reinstalling redistributables.

[Mmaruda]

Windows Update recently installed some new Nvidia drivers without asking, I did not have any issues, but may it be the cause for you?

[taffy2jeffmorgan]

Hi all,

 

Since the Win10 update on the 12 Dec I have been unable to launch IL2 ...... the main start screen comes up then it disappears .... not even to the task bar  .... fails to start fullstop.

 

I changed nothing to cause this .. just the Windows update

 

Suggestions  anyone ? I'm desperate to get back flying !  Especially with the new stuff about to drop

 

cheers

 

Mike 

Let the forum know what the outcome was just for future reference 

[Lemon]

like Jade and Mmaruda say,

Also , i did the windows update too, and i got no issue,   with software like ( winaero tweaker )  ( OOSU10 ) ( Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4.3 )or many other i setup window to not install any drivers automatically, i do manually time to time to not get into those kind of problems, just saying as a suggestion for the future...

have you tried to lunch direct from the  Il-2.exe ? right click on your desktop short cut, click  open file location and try to start the game direct from  Il-2.exe not luncher.exe.. if it dont help  you can also right click on those 2 .exe files and in compatibility tab click run as administrator and retry.

if still not working,you can  download latest video driver, and uninstall video drivers with DDU and all the , VulkanSDK and all the Microsoftvirtual c++ in your (add remove program) the redistributable Jade talk about,  of windows 10, everything you need will be re installed when you re install video driver.. i remember i had this problem at the beginning but i cant remember how i fixed this one

 

good luck 109driver

[SCG_Fenris_Wolf]

I had the issue as well, in another game title.

 

Reinstallation fixed it.

 

Try the function "verifying integrity of game cache" in Steam first.

 

 

The Windows 10 Fall Update is responsible for it - when I did it 3 days later on my secondary Computer, the very same problems appeared on that one as well.

[Arkm]

Gday 

 

I bought BoS on steam today .. Registered the keys .. Game just wont launch .. get Not Responding thats all .. Top end machine, win 10, all drivers up to date, 6 hours fkn reading forums.   Yeah verifying integrity of game cache. Nada .. Iv had enough for today .. Looking for any suggestions. 

 

Thanks Arkm

[Wedgewood]

Try rolling back your graphics card driver.  this can be done easily in device manager without downloading the old drivers again.  I've been having problems with nvidia drivers recently and had to revert back to version 388.00 which seems much more stable for me than the newer ones.

Gday 

 

I bought BoS on steam today .. Registered the keys .. Game just wont launch .. get Not Responding thats all .. Top end machine, win 10, all drivers up to date, 6 hours fkn reading forums.   Yeah verifying integrity of game cache. Nada .. Iv had enough for today .. Looking for any suggestions. 

 

Thanks Arkm

[109driver]

thanks for the input everyone ...... I've tried a few of the suggestions without any luck ..... hoping I don't have to do a full reinstall but it might be the only answer .... I'll keep you posted  ......  109 out

[109driver]

NOT HAPPY JAN !  { only Aussies will get that }  

 

Tried running as admin through the exe. file  ... no luck

 

rolled back video driver  { 980 Ti }  ...... no luck

 

I rolled back  Windows to previous version ....... no luck

 

checked launchers address ..... correct

 

had a brainstorm ... perhaps firewall permissions were changed ... no, all as it is supposed to be

 

then, a complete delete and reinstall of BOM ...... Still no joy

 

and then bloody Windows automatically updated itself again ..... and now Blitz is stuffed too !

 

Win10 has screwed up royally yet again { for me at least } ..... weird how some have no issues at all, and others, like me, have no end of trouble

 

I'm wondering if its a new build computer with original Win10 install  vs  say, my 4 yr old computer that upgraded from Win7 Prof  to Win10 kind of problem ? 

 

I have read elsewhere here on the Blitz forum that players, including myself, were having probs with our joysticks and the USB terminals being "overloaded" ...... Blitz does start if I unplug my joystick { my trusty old Sidewinder 2 in this case } , 

though hardly a good solution., and this only became a problem after the Win10 update.

 

Interestingly too ,  DCS runs fine, without issues ................. but I like Sturmovik MUCH better ! 

 

AAAAARGGHHHHH

 

so sorry for the rant, I will try again with clean reinstalls, latest Win10 and Nvidia drivers

 

109driver .......... down but not out

 

ps anyone seen Robert Taylors new 109 vs Mustang print ? it's a beauty !

[Fidelity]

Last week I reported a bug to Nvidia's software team concerning issues with this latest driver. It may exist in earlier drivers as well. I had to roll back all the way to a driver from September to get everything running normally. It was so bad it would actually crash my operating system, but when it ran I was entirely unable to run BOX.

 

Another thing you can try is manually setting your startup configuration. Something might be misconfigured and therefore it is incapable of running (Happened a few times to me).

If you are using steam with the default location then you can find it here:

C:\Steam\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\data\startup.cfg

 

Open it with notepad (or your favorite text editor). Here are my settings with some notes on things to change:

 

[KEY = graphics]

3dhud = 0

adapter = 0

bloom_enable = 0

desktop_center = 1

detail_rt_res = 1024

fps_counter = 0

fps_limit = 30

full_height = 1080 -- Check your resolution is set correctly for your monitor(s) when in full screen.

full_width = 5760 

fullscreen = 0 -- Setting this to 0 will cause your game to run in Windowed mode. It may actually run better this way. Try it if you can't get it to fire up in full screen.

gamma = 0.80000

grass_distance = 100.00000

hdr_enable = 0

land_anisotropy = 0

land_tex_lods = 3

mgpu_compatible = 0

mirrors = 1

multisampling = 1

or_enable = 0

or_height = 1080

or_hud_rad = 1.50000

or_hud_size = 0.25

or_ipd = 1.00000

or_lens_offs = 1.00000

or_width = 5760

post_sharpen = 0

preset = 3

rescale_target = 1.00000

shadows_quality = 2

ssao_enable = 0

vsync = 1

win_height = 1080 -- This sets your resolution if using the windowed mode (Fullscreen = 0).

win_width = 5760

[END]

[109driver]

hey thanks Fidelity ..... I'll give it a try ... I have a direct download copy from 1C, not the Steam copy ..... been flying IL2 since it first came out

[Arkm]

Hi Ho 

 

I tried Fidelity's suggestion with no luck .. While looking at the settings I noticed this at the top of the config   

 

[KEY = account]

login = ""

password = ""

 

I was wondering if this needed the account details in it ???

 

Iv got the 940v nvidia driver clean installs no rolly backy .. 

 

No point reinstalling the game since I only installed it yesterday.

 

Something is blocking the .exe in the launch. 

Edited December 19, 2017 by StickieArkm

[Lemon]

hi, yes

 

login = "youremail.com"

password = "yourpassword"

 

but i doubt it is your problem since you can enter those info while you enter the (login) page

if nobody cant figure out how to help you on forums:  http://il2sturmovik.com/support/

 

good luck

[Dakpilot]

A long shot, but try running the 2 programs inside redist folder located in BoS data folder

 

it may be that windows update has updated/messed with .net and vc c+++ and you now only have the latest versions and not also the older ones needed

 

they should be installed automatically but... 

 

unlikely, but def worth a shot, cannot do any harm

 

Cheers, Dakpilot

[Arkm]

Ok I Fixed My Problem. 

 

I bypassed the steam launcher .. Went into the ?:\Steam\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\bin\game    Folder and made a shortcut of the il2 exe to the desktop and ran as Admin just because.  

 

There are 2 Launch exe's   il2 and Restarter both worked, Though Im not sure what restarter is for it is a much smaller exe .. probably to overcome a conflict with two instances of the same exe in play if the main exe gets hung up .. just a guess 

 

Hope it helps someone else 

 

Cheers big ears 

 

Stick out

[109driver]

IL2 BOM is still failing to start after exhausting all suggestions ....................

 

 

 

hit Launcher , the loading mini screen appears, hit Play the full  loading screen appears then disappears to desktop ..... showing nothing running in the taskbar  ..... it doesn't reach the log in page

 

tried opening il2exe and launcher as admin in the game folder  ...... same result

 

deleted / reinstalled IL2 BOM ....... not the Steam version, mine is direct purchase

 

deleted all old redistibuitables / "repaired" the latest

 

latest WIN10  { the bastard that started this whole thing }

 

latest Nvidia driver for my 980Ti  ..... the same driver was installed prior to the WIN10 update last week and I had no issues with any of my flight sims

 

checked all firewalls / permissions

 

 

I'm getting over this, and more desperate by the day

 

Any suggestions from the devs ?  Please ?

 

 

109driver ......... very sad face

[Dakpilot]

Did you install the redistributables from game folder

 

It may be that you need the older ones?

 

worth a try

 

Cheers Dakpilot

[ctassel]

Hello,

 

I have the exact same problem.

As well on Steam as on the official launcher, it is impossible for me to start the game.

The window opens and closes instantly. No error message is displayed. I tried to reinstall the game several times, run it in Administrator mode, uncheck the "Read Only" checkbox in the folder, reinstall the redistributable from the source of the game, update the GPU drivers, try to reinstall the game on another Hard drive and on another directory, control firewalls, cut MSI processes (Nahimic can apparently cause conflicts with Il-2) but nothing does.

I'm also on Windows 10 up to date.

My configuration:

-Intel i7 7700k

-32GB RAM

-MSI GTX 1080

-msi Z270

-SSHD 2TB

 

If anyone can help me, I would be very grateful!

[Lemon]

just did a search with google ( windows 10 creators update crashing games ) , many people have problems with many apps after this update,

i guess and hope Microsoft will do some update to fix compatibility issues , for now there is some suggestions to help you fix the problem on the net, but i cant find any clear solution that work 100%

 

some people who fixed the problem was to revert to anniversary edition,  some useful user comment on bottom of this page, hope it can help, i m out of ideas

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-10-creators-update-problems-issues

[ctassel]

I tried to rollback to a previous version of Windows 10 but didn't work, unfortunately...

[Lemon]

 you got no error message when the game crash ?

[ctassel]

Not at all.

The game appears, sometimes I can see the title and it automatically shut down.

I tried to enable the error reporting but nothing appears in this section.

[Lemon]

some says best way to do it is to download the iso, burn a disc and make a clean install. The upgrade seems to leave traces of the old OS still registered in the new version.

[Lemon]

if you still willing to keep trying things, some people talk about to try some things they claim it worked for them :

 

-windows, setting,gaming tab, disable record game clips option

-right click again on your luncher.exe,   disable or enable things in compatibility tab, like (disable full scree optimization,override high dpi thing)

-disable nvidia DSR for testing purpose if you got it on, try basic options, and try with no overclock

 

i d say too : download this tool, not the one with the most options but  no installation it s just a click and run ,safe and  easy to use and often updated: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

and at the (windows update) section,  click on the first 8 options, not the 3 last one, so Windows wont try to upgrade your drivers automatically without your authorization

and re install manually video and audio drivers

and always do a restore points before doing major changes.. again good luck and say if something work please !

[Off_Winters]

Hi All,

New user just bought the game today off Steam. had the same issue, start game see icon in task bar with message not responding.

 

I uninstalled the Nahimic sound driver and the game started with no issue.

regards Rob.