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[Billy T. Pilgrim]

Hi there chaps and chapettes,

It seems a shame for my first post on these forums to be complaining about something not working, so first of all just to say a massive thanks to everyone who's worked on keeping this awesome game alive, full of great content and looking amazing.

Anyway, I'm afraid I have an issue. Try as I might, I can't get the key bind for "Game Menu" to come up in my Controls menu. I've installed:

- Patched up to 4.12.2
- Modact 5.3
- UP3
- HSFX 7 (just for the SFS files, see below)
- DBW 1.71
- TFM for 4.12
- Pablo's TM3 Easypack thingy to get them all to play nicely together, using the profile Pre-DBW2

Everything works fine - I can fly missions, the content all appears fine, the correct version shows on the load screen - the "Game Menu" option simply doesn't appear. I'm pretty sure it's not something gone awry in the install, as I've already started over from a clean 1946 install twice now and it's had this problem each time.

Does anyone have any thoughts?

Tom

[SAS~Storebror]

Wrong place to ask, I'm sorry.
Given what you've told about your installation I'd recommend asking for help in the Newbie section.

Best regards - Mike

[Billy T. Pilgrim]

I see what you're saying - on the surface it certainly looks like a case of "Stupid n00b thows everything into the folder and wonders why it doesn't work" - but I've been lurking here long before I registered. I know that those mods don't necessarily play nicely together - as I was to understand it, that's what the custom classes in Pablo's Pre-DBW2 thing were for.

That said, a conflict is a definite possibility so I've got rid of the other mods. The problem also shows up then - just a clean install, patched up to 4.12.2 with Modact 5.3 installed.

I know where I'm looking in the Controls settings - in Misc, right above the beacon controls - but the option to set a key for "Game Menu" just isn't appearing. Everything else appears to work just fine. I am correct in thinking that that's an option added by Modact, not VisualMod, right?

Sorry to persevere in this thread, but this really seems to be a specific issue related to Modact and I've eliminated conflicts with other mods and modpacks as a cause.

Cheers,
Tom

[SAS~Storebror]

this really seems to be a specific issue related to Modact

You can rule that out and that's the very reason why it's unlikely that anyone will pick up your issues here.

Best regards - Mike

[Billy T. Pilgrim]

No worries, I'll go post in the Newbie forum then.

Edit: Great big apologies due here, I'd read somewhere that the Game Menu option was a feature introduced by Modact. After a lot of looking around to see if there was anything I'd missed, I realised that it was actually part of the buttons mod. After installing that, it worked fine.

[SAS~Tom2]

I am already half in no brain modus operandi, but IIRC there is no such name under miscl. as game menu, I simply assigned (IIRC) a bunch of keys to the Miscelaneous options and one of them worked for the menu -again, IIRC aka from memory.

Best post under Tech help or new member safety area then, as Mike suggested.
 
Cheers

[Billy T. Pilgrim]

Draken,

A few people have had your problem, but there's an easy fix. Just open up conf.ini in your Il-2 folder and change the resolution there - it's right near the beginning, you can't miss it. Make sure save_aspect (I think that's what it's called, posting from my phone - something like that anyway) is set to 0, and you're all good to go.

[SAS~GJE52]

Is there any known issues with installing Modact v5.30 into a clean 4-12-2 install on a windows 7 64 bit machine. I carried out the same procedure on a win 8 32 bit machine with no issues.

When I open the selector and press "Start IL-2 now!" to test it, it freezes and I get a "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000005). click OK to close programme message".


Is this a 64 bit issue or a "path" issue. I have not seen this problem mentioned anywhere else and I can't be the only one with a win7 - 64 bit machine .. can I ?



G;

[mdripley]

GJE I am running IL2 46 412.2 on Win7 64 bit no problems at all not sure why you are having issues, of course do not install IL2 to it's default location i.e. Programs that will cause problems.
it is best if you install to another hard drive

Regards
Mike

[SAS~GJE52]

This machine only has one drive, but I have created a folder outside of  programme files where this install resides.

As long as I use the normal IL2fb.exe option it seems to load and run ok - just has this issue with the selector.

[SAS~Tom2]

Glynn, I would try an older selector just in case.

Chrs

Thorst.

[SAS~Storebror]

Glynn please give the latest Selector v3.1.3 a try:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php?topic=16403.0

Best regards - Mike