Game start issue

[chris h]

Happened sometime over the last five days.

When I start the game there's a 5/6 sec delay before anything happens then the screen goes black for slightly long before the game starts with the scenario list.

There is no splash screen or intro and I have made no changes to to game.

I'm assuming somthing changed on my machine but I don't recall making any but there was an update but I think this occured before the problem.

I'm usually pretty good at working this stuff out but his ones got me beat.
Any ideas?

[chris h]

I've tried MBT and that works as WW2 did when starting.

[Mobhack]

I never show the splash screen, so I just put it back on to test.

It first came up with a reduced window, inside something called an "active movie" on the title bar

But we use DirectShow, no "active movie" thing, whatever the heck that is!

I exited the game and on a whim tried again. That time, it came up as a stretched full-screen window with no borders and continued on doing so.

I then went to MBT and tried - after setting "show intro" to yes, it came up with the weird active movie window in a titled unstretched window. Exit the game fully & restart - and back to proper functionality

I think windows 11 updates may have gotten confused or updated something in DirectX

As to why you get black window - no idea, but probably related. Maybe your PC does not handle this "active movie" thing that briefly tried to take over DirectShow. Try again - and try switching "show intro" on and off and exit the game and do a full restart?

But its a Windows 11 thing, not us as DirectShow is a fundamental part of DirectX that has been around 20 or more years and is used all over the place by games and educational softwares, etc!