Game crashes after logging in

[EigenValue]

Greetings dear pilots, moderators and developers,

Over the years I've heard great things about this game and I finally bought it!

 

The game started fine but the problem here is that the application shut down in about 1 seconds after logging in. No warnings or pop-up window appeared. Yes I've read FAQs and following are the things I've done so far, which have not yet solved the problem:

Running il-2.exe (as well as the shortcut launcher) as admin;

Turning off Windows Security real time protection;

Reinstalling (took hours);

Confirming license keys, all active;

Launch the game in different languages, settings and resolutions;

Removing the tick from Read Only field of the game folder (which weirdly turned itself back on every time when checking it again).

 

I can log-in at il2sturmovik.com so presumably my account is indeed active.

Nothing is present in \data\logs folder; however I did find something suspicious in \data\tex.log that states:

FAILED load: GRAPHICS\ICONS\ROUNDARROW.DDS (graphics\textures\common\ROUNDARROW.DDS)

(I should probably have checked game integrity, but how?)

 

My hardware and software specs:

Intel i7-6700, GeForce GTX 1080, some brand 16 GB RAM and SSD I can't remember, Windows 10 Home x64 version 22H2.

IL-2 Sturmovik (should be v5.004, the game crashed so quickly after logging in), Premium Edition Stalingrad, Moscow, Kuban and Bodenplatte.

 

Any help would be much appreciated. Hopefully I may see you guys in air soon!

(I've read the forum Rules and I do sorely respect it, but since this is my first post here, my apology if aforewrittens violate any community rules or taboos.)

[Shipwreck]

I'm getting the same type of problem. Launches to black screen, occasionally just launches correctly. Works fine on my laptop. I'm going through all the same things looking for a solution. 

[[BFs]ArcticWolf]

Myself as well am getting the same issue just stuck on loading screen mine is stand alone didn't by off steam so it isn't a steam issue and I've never had a problem with game before either. Hopefully this gets fixed soon been trying for a week as there was 2 small patches before and game worked fine up till then!

 

I7 11700F, Geforce RTX 3060, 32gb ram, 512gb SSD / 1TB HD Windows 10 64bit

[FlyingH]

Are your games located in C\Program files\....? Move it to somewhere else on your disc(s) and retry.