[devineprod]

hi guys i have recently bought il2 1946 and am having a hard time getting the boot up screen with out the windows bar at the bottom. when i click on it or c+a+d it it goes full screen and i can control c the movie and i am at the game menu page. now heres the serious problem and i have tried this over and over again. if i c+tab it crashes to a reboot. if i hit the windows button it crashes to reboot. if i c+a+d it crashes to reboot. i have turned the windows bar option (keep bar on top of pages) option off i have set the video card to ati i have changed screen rez.

now the first install was the same however i got it to work and it bypassed the movie. how? i can not say. anyway after trying to install the 1.0 patch after the 4.08m patch unsucssesfully "could not fopy file" error i reinstalled and patched 4.08m sucsses and the 1.0 patch sucsses again then i tried to play but 5% load crash to reboot.

so i uninstalled the game tried again with the 4.08m patch only sucsses (copying files) tried to play and i have not been able to get out of the game board (screen after movie) since.

i am running an amd athlon x2 5200 with an ati 1950 pro.

any help??? randy

[devineprod]

olso i have an acer display manager and a ati catalyst manager open at the same time,

randy will this affect me in this game as it does not seem to be a problem in battelfield

[Pirate]

I also have an acer display. Sometimes when I quit the game my desktop resolution drops to the res I use in the game, I've never figured out why - but it isn't much of a problem. I would disable the acer display manager from starting up with windows (if it does) or not starting it yourself - then see if the problem persists. It is possible your problem is related to mine in some way... though that is a guess.

Might be worth not opening the catalyst manager either - there isn't any need to have it running in the background.

Good Luck

[seaniebeag1983]

Dont know why your crashing to desktop but if you open your conf.ini file, scroll down to the section tht starts with [game], find the line that reads intro=1, change the 1 to a 0 and save. This will stop the Movie from loading

[devineprod]

okay so i installed the copy that worked (4.08 then 1.0) i went into the files looking for said file but i turned 4 switchs on and now it works without a hitch. there are more switches but first i must save this setting.
keeping you posted randy