IL-2 1946 Won't Run

[falle96]

Hey everyone, I have a bit of a technical question for you all.

 

I've had trouble for a while getting IL-2 1946 to work on my Windows 10 PC. It used to run fine on older versions of Windows (7 in particular, but I believe I was able to get it to work in 8.1 as well), but it seems that I cannot get it to load in Windows 10 at all. I have the GoG version and installed it outside of Program Files (86x), but that seems to have done nothing. Turning on compatibility mode also did very little.

 

I have no indication by the computer that the game is trying to run other than GoG will show the "play" button as being grayed out for a second before returning to normal, meaning that the game is either failing to start or is closing seconds into the start-up routine. I never get a black screen, or white screen, or anything else - I'm just left at my desktop the entire time.

 

Any advice would be appreciated...

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

GoG 1946 certainly works on Windows 10, so don't give up. However, I've also seen it fail to start on several installations. Sadly, I was never able to figure out exactly what went wrong.

 

Have you looked for a solution at SAS? They're very experienced. Nevertheless, I can think of several things to try

• Change conf.ini render settings
• Run as administrator
• Reinstall the game (especially if you've upgraded your OS)

1 hour ago, FarflungWanderer said:

I have no indication by the computer that the game is trying to run other than GoG will show the "play" button as being grayed out for a second before returning to normal

Not sure what's going on here. Are you launching it from a GoG client? Perhaps try launching it by il2fb.exe from the main directory.

[falle96]

I haven't tried at SAS, not sure what subforum to even look at.

 

I've played with the config and with running as administrator, and I can't begin to puzzle out what the problem is...

[SAS_Storebror]

4 hours ago, FarflungWanderer said:

I haven't tried at SAS, not sure what subforum to even look at.

 

That's what we have the New Member Safety Area for 

 

Cheers!

Mike

[falle96]

9 minutes ago, SAS_Storebror said:

 

That's what we have the New Member Safety Area for 

 

Cheers!

Mike

Thanks for the heads-up! I’ll try to hash it out with you guys tomorrow. 

[Tuesday]

Usually it is the resolution settings in the conf.ini file that is the biggest problem.

 

Make sure the conf.ini file matches your native desktop resolution!

 

 

In the main game folder:  {X: Program Files}\Il-2 1946\conf.ini