I am unable to play IL-2 because I get an error message when I attempt to join a server. The game starts ok, but soon after connection I get the following message:

Mission loading error: Landscape
'net2winter/load.ini' loading error

The value inside the 'brackets' depends upon the map in the server.

This happened after trying to run a benchmarking program: 3dMark05, which froze up my machine.

I tried re-loading the Unified Installer 1.1 but that didn't help. Then I remembered that I had a copy of the game on my W: drive, which used to be my C: drive before I got the 500 gig drive installed. I figured I would find the file in the old install, and just copy the whole folder it is in to the instance of the game I use routinely. Imagine my surprise when the search came up empty. Now I am stumped.

Help???

Why do you think it's called "Hyper" lobby

Similar happened to me. Try disabling any of your load.ini's in your Mapmods folder that relate to default maps. For example, in the net2winter folder put a "-" sign in front of your load.ini
so it says, -load.ini instead. The game will then read the hardcoded map data. Doing that worked for me when I had that problem on certain servers.

Lol, Ruger.

Feathered 4, thanks for the info, but WWPlague found the answer:

It turned out to be a function of my ATI vid card. Somehow the A.I. setting on my vid card got set to "advanced" I dropped it back to "standard"...problem solved.

You can see the details here

Man...Computers are so complicated......and my eyes glaze over so easily.

Thanks for your input,....and the smile, Ruger