IL3 refuses to start! Please HELP!

[FlyingH]

For a few days now my game, as said, refuses to start!. I click on the shortcut to IL2.exe and I get the black starting screen with the IL2 Sturmovik name an 1C logo + the Loading Please wait. THen the red bar at the bottom moves the ful length of the screen but I get no further. Usually I get a new similar screen wit a dotted ring cirkling for a few seconds and the game starts but now I get back to the desktop. I´ve tried to activate the error reporting file and use the "WievChrashDumps.cmd" but I cannot find any dump file so I guess it isn´t generated. I´ve done the file check via Steam and there was nothing faulty. What to do next? Lastly I´d llike to move the game to another disc, should I move the complete Steam folder, remove the Sturmovik folder out of there and reinstall from Steam? I have bought most of the game from the IL2 site (but once got a steam account and got stuck in using that)

EDIT, found a log, "tex.log" with the following text from todays attempt to start. I tells me nothing but can someone deciffer?

Quote

FAILED load: GRAPHICS\TEXTURES\TRASH\LOWFREQ.DDS (graphics\textures\common\LOWFREQ.DDS)
FAILED load: GRAPHICS\TEXTURES\TRASH\HIFREQ.DDS (graphics\textures\common\HIFREQ.DDS)
 

Edited December 2, 2020 by FlyingH

[RedKestrel]

On 12/1/2020 at 7:03 PM, FlyingH said:

For a few days now my game, as said, refuses to start!. I click on the shortcut to IL2.exe and I get the black starting screen with the IL2 Sturmovik name an 1C logo + the Loading Please wait. THen the red bar at the bottom moves the ful length of the screen but I get no further. Usually I get a new similar screen wit a dotted ring cirkling for a few seconds and the game starts but now I get back to the desktop. I´ve tried to activate the error reporting file and use the "WievChrashDumps.cmd" but I cannot find any dump file so I guess it isn´t generated. I´ve done the file check via Steam and there was nothing faulty. What to do next? Lastly I´d llike to move the game to another disc, should I move the complete Steam folder, remove the Sturmovik folder out of there and reinstall from Steam? I have bought most of the game from the IL2 site (but once got a steam account and got stuck in using that)

EDIT, found a log, "tex.log" with the following text from todays attempt to start. I tells me nothing but can someone deciffer?

Do you have any mods active?

Seems like maybe some of the graphics textures are missing and/or corrupted.

[FlyingH]

No mods enabled, seems strange that some files be missing after verifying via steam?!