Hartford688

If I were not on XP I would certainly follow your advice.

Indeed. I reinstalled and have it working again. For me the path is: "D:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\Ka-50\bin\stable\Launcher.exe" --console Clearly the syntax between my setup and yours is slightly different - re folder names and " " . Must be where the disconnect must have come from. Thanks for the help!

Thank you very much! How embarassing. I'll go and reinstall then...

Distiler - thanks for the reply, but somehow does not work for me. I indeed was linking to the same .exe already. The text you suggested (even adjusting for my installation being on "Ka-50" rather than "Blackshark" as the base folder) still seemed to leave me with issues...the "--console" part was rejected as invalid. 159th Viper- thanks also. My apologies, I guess I am just confused a bit. If I uninstall and reinstall (as you say, no other changes) I do not need to touch the deactivation/reactivation routine? Thanks again for the very rapid support!

A few weeks ago I lost my BS icons on desktop (I believe another user allowed the desktop cleanup utility to run). I have now tried launching the game: d:/program files/Eagle Dynamics/Ka-50/bin/stable/Launcher.exe Trouble is, all I get is the grey dialogue box: Error: cannot open .\BlackShark\BlackShark.lua : No such file or directory Now in the folder d:/program files/Eagle Dynamics/Ka-50/BlackShark I can see that file. Anybody got any ideas? I have seen other threads re the BlackShark.lua file, but these seem to refer to it being corrupted, not "missing" and to ATI cards (I am on Nvidia). Only thing I can think of is to uninstall and reinstall - seems a shame to use up my activations however, if there is a better way. Much appreciated Hartford688