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[Eagle18101]

Been having this issue with GB for a while, but the game crashes in the initial loading screen on startup.
Tried verifying the files, no joy.
Tried tweaking the settings through the startup.cfg file, no joy.
I managed to get it running in safe mode, albeit with incredibly slow FPS, although despite changing some graphics settings in safe mode (which I think was the initial cause of the issue), the game still CTD's back in normal mode.

[SAS~Storebror]

Happened to me two times so far in my GB "career" (didn't play that game for more than a year now, just saying).
First occurance was my own fault: I've had mods installed, updated the game, and the mods killed it. That being said, make sure you've got no mods active - Steam won't care for that, so "verifying files" doesn't help in that case.
Second occurance was an error on Steam itself. The game would not run through Steam, but it would run standalone. You can check this by trying to run the game standalone when Steam has been terminated: Start il2.exe from "Steam\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\bin\game".
If that works, then you are facing a Steam error and should try to update your Steam Client first.


Mike

[Eagle18101]

Haven't had any mods installed and I tried out the game through the standalone exe and those don't do anything, so I dunno whats happening there. Something tells me its got something to do with my drivers but they seem to be up to date.

[SAS~Storebror]

Windows Event Log, i.e. the Application Log (alternatively System Log), might give a clue.


Mike

[Eagle18101]

Ah ha!

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Faulting application name: Il-2.exe, version: 1.0.0.1, time stamp: 0x6495c6a9
Faulting module name: igc64.dll, version: 27.20.100.8280, time stamp: 0x5ec41fc2
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000eebb82
Faulting process ID: 0x34fc
Faulting application start time: 0x01d9b12b81b0764d
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\bin\game\Il-2.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\iigd_dch.inf_amd64_2b7bcff446ea567f\igc64.dll
Report ID: 18e0248e-06f0-4902-9bb1-0fe219c0f352
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Dunno what any of this means but if anyone can figure it out it would be greatly appreciated.
It appears to be related to a a .dll file called igc64.dll

[SAS~Storebror]

That's Intel HD Graphics.
It looks like your PC is using the CPU for rendering instead of a dedicated GPU.
That - of course - cannot work with GB.
If it's a laptop, you should have some kind of utility to assign certain applications to the GPU instead of CPU-integrated graphics and vice versa.


Mike

[Eagle18101]

Holy Sh*t it finally worked! Just had to switch it from CPU to GPU (dunno why my Computer thought it needed to run it on CPU but ok)

Cheers for the help man