Nikmurder

mine needs to be cleaned every half a year even if its not the cause - it is a good idea to clean) good luck!

so i finally tracked down the initial comctl32 error thing is i'm running 4d1 on a notebook with 2 GPUs (intel hd something on my CPU and nvidia m310) they are switched by something called nvidia optimus. essentially it turns on nvidia 1 gig GPU when it is needed (games, hard graphics etc) by itself (well it has a list of programs that need fast GPU in it's drivers/software which you need to update to get the latest games to work and switch properly) but unfortunately it doesn't know anything about fd1 ( you can manually edit the list but it doesn't help. so you end up playing on low end gpu instead of fast one. and you get the comctl error if you right click the icon which loads fd1 - you have a menu for selection which gpu should run the program that's it! you select your fast gpu (in my case nvidia 310) and BAM! you don't get the error and your game runs like 10 times faster! i recommend switching on the tray icon which shows if nvidia GPU is being used (it's in nvidia's settings - look for it) it turns green when active and if you click it - shows which programs use nvidia GPU

what toolbox said it helped me one addition you download both 22 and 23 files because for me 23 was missing and after copying 22 i got error corresponding to missing/corrupted 23 so do them both at once while you are at it)

if the figures are more close to 100 degrees Celsius - this might be the trouble clean the insides of your computer from dust (especially radiators of CPU and GPU - they collect huge amounts)and invest in additional cooler for your case - it's like 10 USD for a cheap one here - must be nearly the same where you live. it adds more noise but helps with temperature. the expensive ones are more silent.

i'm on win 7 x64 and 4 gig ram and run firefox and skype and other programs while playing fd1 no problem.. your computer might overheat. mine gets really hot after 10-15 minutes of play. check this with some free tool like hwmonitor (www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html)

yep been gaming for half an hour - everything works fine if i just disregard the comctl error so it's been lack of iw22 and 23 files in my game topic closed)

ok this far i tried to join games successfully the error with comctl32 still is here but it doesn't affect anything i guess i just have to download a bunch of files (maps from dlc i presume) to have a play mods if you wish so - delete my topic completely or leave it or have me edit it - whichever suits you more i think it's resolved and i was just too fast to post before browsing thru all of the forum and catching all of my erorrs) sorry for that!)

well it did 10 or so minutes ago (maybe i'm dl-ing not from exactly this dropbox) and i found some repository for all of the iw's on dropbox in some other topic so it's ok

thank you i'm already dl-ing from there)

so far so good - installed iw22 the error changed to that corresponding to 23 missing|corrupted dl-ing 23th)

after some times playing around with black screen i found that pressing ctrlaltdel reveals a new error window - one that was discussed here about preview_mp_compact so i need to download iw22 and 23 to fix.. will try.. will not edit out my error report until fixed but hang on with your suggestions for now thank you

sorry if this been answered before.. today got installer from your site did everything that was in youtube tutorial it downloaded and installed everything fine when i try to launch asks for my login|pass on forum - i enter them - fine but then it shows error 345 in comctl32.dll. if i ignore it (press ok ok ok ok) it launches the game menu (new game, options etc) but after 10-15 seconds crashes into black screen even when i touch nothing. deleted and reinstalled fd1 program - no change. went into single player - works fine no errors no issues for couple levels at least. some 10-20 mins of gameplay. so i suppose the game itself works fine... i'm on win7 x64 sp1 + all windowsupdates to this day i had this same copy of game working fine with alteriwnet.. maybe some parts of it still installed prevent the new system from working? anyways i can't really reinstall the game from scratch as i no longer have the installer files if you need the exact screenshot of the error i can post it but it's in russian (i have russian windows) and it just says what i wrote) sorry for my bad english. hope it's understandable) thanks for your help in advance)