I think there is some confusion here, the .dll's that keep people from loading the game are the snd_sse.dll or something like that, I beleive ivan is talking about the core.dll's which are completely different.

Yes, they're core.dlls from an earlier beta

Well, it over wrote the "HQ foam pack", which is what I had before. The result is that all of the water is pitch black and flat on my ATI card.

So, while it may have optimised for Nvidia it killed perfect mode for ATI...

Hmmm, i still have foam with water=2 and water is much better color too. ATI 1900XTX

When I overwrite the old mg_snd_sse.dll with the one provided with 4.09 Beta the game will not start. It does not even get to the point of writing a logfile - tried that yesterday in cooperation with kuzma. The problem is always the same - regardless whether I use the original Il2fb.exe or the no-cd version.

AMD XP 3000+
2GB RAM
Nvidia 7800 GS
Creative Audigy 4

As per csThor. Exactly the same behaviour.

AMD XP 2800+
1GB RAM
ATI 9800pro
Soundstorm onboard sound
Nvidia Nforce2 mobo controller (on a DFI LanParty NFII Ultra B)

Thanks for input, keep it coming. We gotta make sure that final release doesnt have any of those issues..

Same like CsThor here

AMD XP2600+
MoBo MSI K7N2Delta2
1.5 GB RAM
Sapphire ATI 9600XT
Audigy2 ZS, last Creative drivers
XP Pro

Do I spot a pattern there? All three of us have AM Athlon XPs so far.

It kinda looks that way scThor.. i dont have Athlon XP system anymore to check