Dear smarter-than-me people,
I'm stumped. For the love of me I can't get Reshade to work on a "clean" Il-2 installation from GOG, a 12.2m "megapatched" copy of that, or any of the other versions I've installed. My consistent error is "il2b.exe has stopped working".
I'm working with a newish Acer (2017) laptop with NVidia 940mx graphics and Windows 10 (1709). "Perfect" mode works with OpenGL. Everything else works. BAT works beautifully (thank you for all your hard work!). And now laugh please...I bought this laptop precisely because it had an NVidia card...so I could play Il-2...and precisely because once upon a time I met a Malta spitfire pilot when I was delivering newspapers at age 14.
I've tried several incarnations to resolve the Reshade/SweetFX issue as mentioned in this thread. SAS~Storbror's solution comes very close - but no cigar. The exact same settings when installed for a DirectX installation works perfectly. From this I can understand the appeal of ReShade - and can also understand why OpenGL is preferred.
My logfile tells me that il-2 started and "splash screens" were available. My opengl.log tells me that somewhere along the line, processing stopped
'D3D11CreateDevice(35150BC0, 0, 00000000, 0x89, 2F8AD940, 1, 7, 2F8AD948, 00000000, 00000000)' ...
01/01/2018 22:01:19:882 [10148] | INFO | > Passing on to 'D3D11CreateDeviceAndSwapChain':
01/01/2018 22:01:19:882 [10148] | INFO | Redirecting 'D3D11CreateDeviceAndSwapChain(35150BC0, 0, 00000000, 0x89, 2F8AD940, 1, 7, 00000000, 00000000, 2F8AD948, 00000000, 00000000)' ...
In reading through this thread, it strikes me that others have seemingly experienced the same thing... and achieved no resolution. So...mayday...mayday...ideas?