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[sercrets]

Title says it all. Thanks.

[SAS~Storebror]

Before we start writing down everything again, maybe this is worth looking at: https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=ForumsPro&file=viewtopic&p=208379#208379


Mike

[sercrets]

Before we start writing down everything again, maybe this is worth looking at: https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=ForumsPro&file=viewtopic&p=208379#208379


Mike

Thanks, I realize my question was very vague sorry about that. I was very frustrated and exhausted then.... Here is my issue, I do all the stuff required to get a proper server, following the instructions, and when I run it on my main pc, I can launch it, see what mission its playing etc. (never connected because I do not want to port forward my main pc). However when I move over to my server PC, using the exact same steps, files, everything, and I launch it, the command prompt opens up as it should, remains black, and then disappears and closes over the course of about a second. I have no idea what is causing this, however it is very annoying. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

[SAS~Storebror]

If your "server" is really a windows server, and if it's a remotely hosted one, and if you tried to run an IL-2 client game on it to host a mission, then this won't work, because remotely hosted servers usually have no graphics card and no CPU-integrated 3D support whatsoever.
That's one possible cause for this.
If however you really tried to run the dedicated server "il2server.exe" and this one didn't do much or anything, then the most likely reason is DEP ("Data Execution Prevention").
This video tells a bit about what DEP is and how to disable it for certain programs, skip to the 6:25 timemark for disabling DEP on a process:



Because different Windows Server Operating Systems have different ways to access the advanced system properties (the video shows Windows 7 which is not of much help here), let me tell you that typing "SystemPropertiesAdvanced" into the start menu (or the "run" dialog thereof, if you windows OS is ancient) or "sysdm.cpl ,3" and hitting return will do the trick.

il2server.exe unfortunately needs DEP to be disabled, otherwise it simply stops running before it can output anything.


Mike

[sercrets]

Great! Thanks! I will try it out later! I know I have at least integrate graphics, because I am running windows 10 via a VM and its a full install, the only different is its the server version, so its a bit more lightweight... I shall let you know! Thanks for the help Mike!

[sercrets]

If your "server" is really a windows server, and if it's a remotely hosted one, and if you tried to run an IL-2 client game on it to host a mission, then this won't work, because remotely hosted servers usually have no graphics card and no CPU-integrated 3D support whatsoever.
That's one possible cause for this.
If however you really tried to run the dedicated server "il2server.exe" and this one didn't do much or anything, then the most likely reason is DEP ("Data Execution Prevention").
This video tells a bit about what DEP is and how to disable it for certain programs, skip to the 6:25 timemark for disabling DEP on a process:



Because different Windows Server Operating Systems have different ways to access the advanced system properties (the video shows Windows 7 which is not of much help here), let me tell you that typing "SystemPropertiesAdvanced" into the start menu (or the "run" dialog thereof, if you windows OS is ancient) or "sysdm.cpl ,3" and hitting return will do the trick.

il2server.exe unfortunately needs DEP to be disabled, otherwise it simply stops running before it can output anything.


Mike

It unfortunately did not work... I disabled DEP for all of the .exe files, so il2console, il2server, il2server_new, il2wconsole... It still will open and then shut, just like before... Any other ideas?

[sercrets]

I got it figured out! It was DEP and windows compatibility mode!

[SAS~Storebror]

Nice. Great to see you could work it out eventually.
Would you mind to tell us which compatibility setting you've used?
I'm a bit surprised as I've been running il2server.exe on Windows 10 & 11 without any issues (apart from DEP) so far, without ever touching the compatibility settings.


Mike

[sercrets]

Yea I dunno why I had issues, it ran on my main pc without DEP and compatibility changed... I had to switch it to windows xp service pack 2. I was talking to a friend the other day who had il-2 randomly not work on his computer, and he did the same thing and it started to work...

Cheers, sercrets.