That's so far the highest rated option. I wouldn't mind CoD running though, but well... A Tele's a Tele. :mrgreen:

Lucas, it's a long shot but check your ...\Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover folder to see if you've got the conf, confUser and confs.ini files in there. The reason I say this is that I deleted mine to restore the default ones and rather than verifying cache integrity I fired up the game and got the 5 second spinning circle you describe.

Cheers

Goanna

Thanks for the advice, Goanna, but no dice yet.

The files were already present when I checked - clicked Play, nothing.

I decided, just to make sure, to try what you did and so deleted them, followed by a cache integrity check, which said 23 files were missing. After everything was redownloaded, I tried again but the song remains the same - few seconds, nothing happens, and that's it.

Again, just to make sure, I'm running (or failing to run) the Russian version, physical copy. I don't think it'd make much of a difference in the normal run of things, but this particular release wasn't the normal run of things (although for flight sim standards, it wasn't too unusual :mrgreen:) so it might as well be a bug found only on this particular version.

OT: The marketing done in antecipation was quite nice. I jumped into a store in a mall today, shopping for CDs (if anyone's interested, got myself a copy of Radiohead's The King of Limbs, brilliant) and, as I walk in, I see this huge clock with the Cliffs of Dover cover on it, showing 00:00:00 - I didn't get the chance to see it ticking, but it's quite nice to see that there was such antecipation for a release that's considered to be aimed at a "small niche". Sadly it wasn't released under ideal conditions, but hey, there's time to make it an all-time classic, and even the current videos and screenshots hint that it's there already.

Hi Lucas, I was suffered same pain as you did.
I could run the game before I install the patch.
But not now. Launcher fail. No message appears.
It really drive me crazy!
My conf is GTX260+ & I7 920 with 4G RAM. WIN7

Able to run it before but now you can't? Ouch... Feel sorry for you, pebop. :(

A bit scary too since your rig sounds a tad more fit for the job.

My rig, in any case, is a stock HP p6050 (Intel quad-core 2.3MHz, Vista 32 bit, GeForce GT120, 3GB RAM).

I installed last beta patch in friday.
In the evening I tryed to go fly on-line.
During each 10 minutes Launcher.exe stopped work and game was dead.
After 4th time Launcher.exe crashed, I went sleep. :(

Windows 7 Home premium 64bit
Intel core i5 750 2,67 GHz
RAM 4 GB DDR3
NVidia GeForce 470 GTX

SSAO was ON

:(

Hi Lucas, this is a long shot but I had a similar problem to yours - drove me crazy all weekend (I'm in the U.S. and picked up the game from justflight on Friday, downloaded it from steam, all seemed well but clicking on the icon just didn't launch the game - no matter how much furious clicking I engaged in!).

Long story short, I ended up having a what seems to be a pretty rare problem with my .net framework. My computer (win7 64 pro) says I have .net 4.0 installed, but in actuality there are a few files (mscoree.dll files) that for some reason or other, never got updated - and don't get updated, even if you do a repair/reinstall of .net! Here's a link to check out-

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/arc.../10110053.aspx

You can use a simple download to check whether your .net is actually 4.0 from here.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/arc...3/8999004.aspx

Anyhow, I know it's a long shot but I suppose you're willing to entertain one at this point, so if you the time read those blogs and check whether you "really" have .net 4.0.

I tried updating/reinstalling .net 4.0 but that didn't work - I finally fixed the problem by doing a repair install of win7 from the dvd, which was a pain but in the end I'm up and flying (for a few minutes at least until I blow the engine).

Good luck, figure even if this doesn't work for you it's worth it to post in case someone ends up with a similar problem -

oh and one more thing, right afterward the repair install it didn't work, but then after windows update downloaded a whole mess of updates the game finally started.

was you home 7 an upgrade from vista?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOh6N...eature=related

use steam todo a file integrity check

No.