[nuckadamus]

Just bought IL-2 1946 from direct-2-drive. after trying out the demo.

Running win98. Radeon 9000 card.

game works fine off the clean install. ver 4.08

after installing the community installer and then unified 1.1 patch the game will not load - stops at 60 %

if i am using open gl there is no opening screenshot, just whitescreen with loading numbers in red text and i get an error message after crash:

IL2FB caused an invalid page fault in
module OPENGL32.DLL at 01bf:78aa0304.
Registers:
EAX=81b956a4 CS=01bf EIP=78aa0304 EFLGS=00010286
EBX=00000001 SS=01c7 ESP=0bbcfc2c EBP=0bbcfc70
ECX=0c65c420 DS=01c7 ESI=00000000 FS=3dd7
EDX=00000000 ES=01c7 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
ff a2 58 03 00 00 8b c0 64 a1 18 00 00 00 8b d0
Stack dump:
0c65c434 00008920 0c6572fd 0c6573c0 0c560000 00000000 00000001 00000000 0c560000 81b956e0 00000001 0bbcfc48 0bbcfa5c 0bbcfe28 0c65745c 0c65d2a0

If i am using directx support there is an opening screenshot but no error message in crash

both kick out at 60% and the load time is significantly slower than when starting on the clean install.

Below is the log file

[12.08.2009 11:13:56] ------------ BEGIN log session -------------
OpenGL provider: dx8wrap.dll
OpenGL library:
Vendor: 1C.Multimedia.Dev/Maddox.
Render: DirectX8.
Version: 1.1
Extensions: GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_ARB_multitexture GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_compression
Size: 1600x1200
ColorBits: 32
DepthBits: 24
StencilBits: 8
isDoubleBuffered: true

*** Looking for Advanced CPU Instructions...
[x] PentiumPro
[x] Multimedia (MMX)
[-] 3D (SSE)
[-] 3D (SSE2)
[x] 3D (3DNow)
ColourBits 32, ABits 0, ZBits 24

*** Looking for Render API Extensions ...
[-] 'GL_EXT_paletted_texture' extension - Palettized textures (8 bit RGBA palette).
[-] 'GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array' extension - Compiled Vertex arrays.
[-] 'GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint' extension - Frustum clipping optimization.
[x] 'GL_EXT_secondary_color' extension - Secondary Color for 3D fog & specular optimization.
[-] 'GL_EXT_separate_specular_color' extension - SeparateSpecular for 3D fog & specular optimization.
[x] 'GL_ARB_multitexture' extension - Multitexturing.
[x] 'GL_EXT_texture_env_combine' extension - Multitextures advanced combining for special effects.
[-] 'GL_NV_texture_env_combine4' extension - Multitextures advanced combining for special effects.
[-] 'GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3' extension - Dot3 Bump advanced combining.
[-] 'GL_NV_depth_clamp' extension - Corrects Shadows rendering
[-] 'GL_NV_texture_shader' extension - NV Pixel Shaders
[x] 'GL_ARB_texture_compression' extension - Saves texture memory by 400%
[-] 'GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic' extension - Anisotropic texture filtering.

Maximum texture size : 2048
Maximum simultaneous textures :6
MaxAnisotropic (1.0 = none) : 1.000000
WARNING: 'Perfect' Mode required latest drivers with 'vertex buffer' support
WARNING: 'Perfect' Mode required pixels shaders
WARNING: 'Perfect' Mode required latest drivers with vertex shaders support'GL_ARB_vertex_program'
WARNING: 'Perfect' Mode is not supported for this combination of hardware and drivers.
Cannot load sound preset motor.DB-600_Series.start.begin (java.lang.Exception: Invalid preset format)
Cannot load sound preset motor.DB-600_Series.start.end (java.lang.Exception: Invalid preset format)
Cannot load sound preset motor.Rolls-Royce-Merlin.start.begin (java.lang.Exception: Invalid preset format)
Cannot load sound preset motor.Rolls-Royce-Merlin.start.end (java.lang.Exception: Invalid preset format)
Cannot load sound preset motor.Sabre.start.begin (java.lang.Exception: Invalid preset format)
Cannot load sound preset motor.Sabre.start.end (java.lang.Exception: Invalid preset format)
SectFile load failed: null
java.io.FileNotFoundException
at com.maddox.rts.SFSInputStream.(SFSInputStream.java:65)
at com.maddox.rts.SFSReader.(SFSReader.java:19)
at com.maddox.rts.SectFile.loadFile(SectFile.java:157)
at com.maddox.rts.SectFile.loadFile(SectFile.java:136)
at com.maddox.rts.SectFile.(SectFile.java:108)
at com.maddox.rts.SectFile.(SectFile.java:68)
at com.maddox.sound.SoundPreset.(SoundPreset.java:49)
at com.maddox.sound.SoundPreset.get(SoundPreset.java:65)
at com.maddox.il2.engine.Pre.loading(Pre.java:92)
at com.maddox.il2.engine.cmd.CmdPreload.exec(CmdPreload.java:37)
at com.maddox.rts.CmdEnv.exec(CmdEnv.java:655)
at com.maddox.rts.cmd.CmdFile.exec(CmdFile.java:132)
at com.maddox.rts.CmdEnv.exec(CmdEnv.java:655)
at com.maddox.rts.cmd.CmdFile.exec(CmdFile.java:132)
at com.maddox.rts.CmdEnv.exec(CmdEnv.java:655)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Main3D.beginApp(Main3D.java:408)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Main3D.beginApp(Main3D.java:352)
at com.maddox.il2.game.MainWin3D.beginApp(MainWin3D.java:211)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Main.exec(Main.java:419)
at com.maddox.il2.game.GameWin3D.main(GameWin3D.java:235)
Cannot load sound preset motor.Packard-Merlin (java.lang.Exception: Invalid preset format)
Main begin: null
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.maddox.il2.gui.GUIQuick$ItemAir.(GUIQuick.java:753)
at com.maddox.il2.gui.GUIQuick.fillArrayPlanes(GUIQuick.java:787)
at com.maddox.il2.gui.GUIQuick.(GUIQuick.java:1032)
at com.maddox.il2.gui.GUI.create(GUI.java:158)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Main3D.beginApp(Main3D.java:689)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Main3D.beginApp(Main3D.java:352)
at com.maddox.il2.game.MainWin3D.beginApp(MainWin3D.java:211)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Main.exec(Main.java:419)
at com.maddox.il2.game.GameWin3D.main(GameWin3D.java:235)
[12.08.2009 11:19:38] -------------- END log session -------------




I am failry new to dealing with these technical issues, but if anyone would be able to point me to the right direction? is this a mod install problem? an error with my java package? or video card problem?

any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.