Launcher.exe closing after 5 seconds, no error message

[JG52Uther]

GT120? I suspect that is a weak,unsupported graphics card.Possibly that is the problem in your case Lucas.

[jimbop]

Well if all else failed I'd be doing a Windows reinstall as well but I can understand some people not wanting to do that! I've had similar problems with other games (not CoD, thankfully) which were only solved by a fresh install unfortunately. Probably due to lack of expertise...

[Lucas_From_Hell]

Originally Posted by JG52Uther

GT120? I suspect that is a weak,unsupported graphics card.Possibly that is the problem in your case Lucas.

Pretty acquainted with the possibility, Uther. Not touching the compatibility field, it has 2GB and runs quite a few games with heavy graphics (such as Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway) smoothly, with fairly good settings. It came with the computer, and it'd be really crappy if the card ends up being the issue, since I'm trying to save some money for various purposes (namely a Telecaster guitar, a proper amplifier for it, and if any is spared, pairs of Converse or Vans shoes). It's kept me from buying a decent set of controls and I'm afraid that, for the time being, it might just keep me from buying a new card too.

I'm still a bit dodgy regarding the lack of any screen, sound or message after the crash, if it was the card there should, in theory, be some sign of it, no?

[IbanezLaney]

Defiantly get the telecaster before a new graphics card - then you won't care so much if the game won't run cause you'll have a nice tele to play .

[Lucas_From_Hell]

Originally Posted by IbanezLaney

Defiantly get the telecaster before a new graphics card - then you won't care so much if the game won't run cause you'll have a nice tele to play .

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

[Goanna]

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

[Lucas_From_Hell]

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 ) 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.

[pepob]

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