4.09 - Support & Bug Reporting

[Shrike_UK]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

All working fine here v408m & v409m

Make sure you don't have any running processes trying to switch to desktop apart from IL2 of course.

Thanks for responding. I definateley dont have anything else running. No MSN, no Anti-Virus installed, no Firewall even, only processes running are normal Vista 32 OS processes, and ATi Control Center (ccc) and Sound Card control centre. I have UAC off since install of OS. Installing game and patches as administrator and launching as admin.

I dont actually get the same result on 2 different PCs, both Vista 32, but my other one is Dell XPS 1210 Laptop with nVidia graphics card rather than ATi completeley different mobo and Sound card, i do not get the issue at all, so i beleive it has something to do with a hardware incompatibility.

My Desktop PC which it doesnt work on: (all with latest drivers)
nForce 520LE Motherboard socket AM2 using Onboard Realtek HD sound card.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (2.2Ghz x 2)
MSI - ATi Radeon X1950 Pro 256mb DDR3, DX9, shader 3.0
Driver version = 9-8_legacy_vista32-64_dd_ccc, 2009.0721.1107.18080
2GB DDR2 Ram
Vista HP 32bit

My Laptop which it does work on:
Dell XPS M1210, Onboard sound.
nVidia GForce GO 7400 256mb
2GB DDR2 Ram
Vista HP 32bit.

It is a replicatable bug, i can produce it by launching IL2, opening FMB, then loading a map, (screen hangs quite some time before map appears), then load a different map, and i get a picture of the desktop but no mouse cursor, when i press 'alt', as if im going to alt-tab, theres a screen flicker as if theres some kind of handing over of a process between game and OS, then i press the tab in combo and i get IL2 tab showing as a black screen, i switch back to the black screen, i get a spinning vista waiting circle for around 1 minute, then the FMB and map i wanted appears. Strange thing is, in 408m, i notice you get a dialogue box quoting 'loading map ___ ' but in 409m this dialogue box no longer appears.
(Its strange, its as if IL2 is looking for some screen in the game that dont exist so instead it just hangs on a screenshot of your desktop).
I have a fresh install of Il246 on both machines, making sure i deleted all traces of previous installs.
In 408m, loading a different map works, no task switching required, and new map loads in under 5 seconds. Also, i used the 409 Beta, and never had any problems with that either.

I have tried using the different sound dll's, as once while switching and the map wasnt loaded even though the game thought it was, i heard some sounds of thunder and lightning, LOL. I've switched back to normall sound dll's now though as it didnt solve the issue. I have also tried different screen resolutions, thinking that might cause it, but no.