Windows® 8 Cliffs of Dover Fix (is here).

[BillW71]

Originally Posted by broken pixel

Have you gone here and read the 1st page of this thread?

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=36078

It is not a patch and does not go into the il2 clod folder.

Download sky's fix called cloder, once the file finishes open it with either zip or rar. Make a folder on your desktop extract the cloder.zip files to your new folder.

Open up the folder you created with the extracted cloder files and double click the cloder exe. It will open a window and want you to navigate to the actual il2 cod .exe file located in steam/steam apps/common/

Once cloder has been told what exe to launch it should launch the game. There is also a read me file that sky included with his fix.

First off, I'd like to thank you for the walk through broken pixel.
Second, I still can't get it to run after doing what you said step by step. I'ts gotta be something I'm missing. I did everything you said and for some odd reason it's not running. it was supposed to be pointed to "steam/steam apps/common/" then the launcher for the game correct?

If so I still can't get the game to go.

[broken pixel]

Sure thing Bill I will check my puter when I get home and see what we can do to get your IL2 COD running within windows 8. No more 7 for me lol!

Oh! have you tried stardocks start8 program? It makes win8 much more user friendly by adding a start menu and being able to tweak some metro crap.

[BillW71]

Originally Posted by broken pixel

Sure thing Bill I will check my puter when I get home and see what we can do to get your IL2 COD running within windows 8. No more 7 for me lol!

Oh! have you tried stardocks start8 program? It makes win8 much more user friendly by adding a start menu and being able to tweak some metro crap.

Nah, I haven't tried it, I'm just getting use to the new Windows 8 and I'm loving it lol. Going from Windows XP and a slow computer to a fast computer and Windows 8, I can't go wrong lol

I'll check back tonight after work, Thanks again for all the help bro, it's greatly appreciated.

[sYk0]

Originally Posted by donfrodini

I am also struggling to load this game in Windows 8, i tried this fix but antivirus just automatically deletes it as soon as i extract it from the folder (Norton 360) don't even have the option of telling it to ignore it :\

@donfrodini,

You can add files and/or folders to your anti-virus white-list, please see the help document that accompanies your anti-virus product for instructions on how to do this.

You can also temporarily disable your anti-virus product in order to extract files from the archive, again see the help documentation that accompanies your anti-virus product.

Originally Posted by donfrodini

I would also like to know why it causes our antivirus applications to go crazy??

Anti-virus products implement a technique they call a "Heuristic Virus Detection".

Please see this article for more information.

The sweet and short version:

The main essence of each method is to analyze the suspicious file’s characteristics and behavior to determine if it is indeed malware.

The main concern with heuristic detection is that it often increases false positives. False positives are when the antivirus software determines a file is malicious (and quarantines or deletes it) when in reality it is perfectly fine and/or desired. Because some files may look like viruses but really aren’t, they are restricted and stopped from working on your computer.

Due to the nature of my fix (it changes another processes code in memory, somewhat "virus-like") some anti-virus products will see this as malicious.

If you really don't trust the fix, don't use it (no one is forcing you), simple as that.
You could also take the time to read the comments from various other members of this forum on the joys they are having with the fix.

Regards,
sYk0.

[sYk0]

Originally Posted by BillW71

I don't mean to sound like an idiot but, I didn't understand a word you said lol
I unzipped it to my Downloads folder, Opened up Steam>Steam Apps>Common>IL 2 Cliff of Dover and placed the 2 files in there.

@BillW71,

There are a number of ways to get the fix working, you are using one of the (three) methods.

You can put the two (.exe and .dll) files into your "il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover" folder, just make sure they are in the same directory as "Launcher.exe".

After placing the files in your "il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover" folder you must execute (run) "CloDer.exe" (DO NOT run the game from Steam, this will not work [it bypasses the fix]).


Another Method (as broken pixel was trying to explain).

Extract the archive ("CloDer_v0.0.0.1.7z" or "CloDer_v0.0.0.1.zip") to a new folder on your PC (I'll use "C:\Downloads\CloDer\").

Go to the folder where you extracted the files (in my case "C:\Downloads\CloDer\"), locate and run the file "CloDer.exe".

Unlike the first scenario (above), "CloDer.exe" won't find "Launcher.exe" (therefore can't run it automatically) and will ask you to locate it (the "Open File" dialog will pop up), simply use the dialog to locate "Launcher.exe" in your "il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover" folder.

*Note: Steam must be running (in the background) in order to play the game.

Hope you get it running.

//Regards,
sYk0.

[michel91]

Originally Posted by sYk0

@BillW71,

There are a number of ways to get the fix working, you are using one of the (three) methods.

You can put the two (.exe and .dll) files into your "il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover" folder, just make sure they are in the same directory as "Launcher.exe".

After placing the files in your "il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover" folder you must execute (run) "CloDer.exe" (DO NOT run the game from Steam, this will not work [it bypasses the fix]).


Another Method (as broken pixel was trying to explain).

Extract the archive ("CloDer_v0.0.0.1.7z" or "CloDer_v0.0.0.1.zip") to a new folder on your PC (I'll use "C:\Downloads\CloDer\").

Go to the folder where you extracted the files (in my case "C:\Downloads\CloDer\"), locate and run the file "CloDer.exe".

Unlike the first scenario (above), "CloDer.exe" won't find "Launcher.exe" (therefore can't run it automatically) and will ask you to locate it (the "Open File" dialog will pop up), simply use the dialog to locate "Launcher.exe" in your "il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover" folder.

*Note: Steam must be running (in the background) in order to play the game.

Hope you get it running.

//Regards,
sYk0.

Your fix works very well, thank you. I have extracted files in IL2 folder (not the original one under Steam, but a copy in c:\Program Files (x86)). Just a remark : I must execute cloder.exe in administrator mode, otherwise nothing happens, is it due to the fact that I work with a copied directory?
I have also a problem when trying to play a mission created by mission builder, but it may be a quite different problem
//Regards.

[sbudellaman]

Hi all, my first post
I tryied to download the file cloder.zip but seems the link is broken or something like that. Can anyone re-upload the file please ?
EDIT: fixed that. Dont know why, but my antivirus blocked the download. When i disable it, i was able to download the file... anyway my avira antivirus keep trying to delete that files, very annoying, need to setup it

[sYk0]

Hi all,

I have added a MediaFire link (please see the first post) as the DropBox one seems to be a bit dodgy.

Thanks to those who PM'd me with the issue.

//Regards,
sYk0.

[zahnartz62]

I upgraded to Win 8 Pro..Trend Micro is deleting ColDer.exe even though I put it on the "allow" list. FWI

[jimjam402]

please help i got a new windows 8 laptop and it doesnt work it say preparing to launch il2 sturmovik cliffs of dover but no window opens