fao of IL-2 1946'ers with a good working install

[Zak33]

May I humbly make a suggestion?

IF you have a good working version of 1946 installed on your PC, patched to the latest, with all your favourite keystrokes etc sorted...

Make a zipped version of the entire file. Maybe burn it to a DVD, as it'll just about fit into 4.7gig.

Because, it won't easily install back into stuff like Vista 64... it RUNS like a dream in Vista64, but installing it... it just won't run from the disk.

So... if you have a cherished install, with all your keystrokes and stuff, with the latest patch and maybe some favourite skins installed and a logo/squadron pack... zip in all together, to back it up and when you need it on a fresh OS install oneday... just unzip it back to where you want it

Prolly illegal in some way, but I KNOW everyone has legit copies cos it's so cheap to buy now... so I'm risking this advice cos it'll save you a LOT of heartache one day.

[Jiff Lemon]

Equallly runs happily on a 7 64bit install Mr.Zakky. Little bit of fun starting the install (think I had to launch the MSI with admin privledges instead of the autorun) but after that, it's plain sailing.

Good tip all the same though

[Gerrard]

I had a similiar problem with Win7 64-bit as well. I just copied over the directory from my old hard drive, and it seems to be fine.

Edit: Scrap that. Just patched it frim 4.08m to 4.09m and now it won't run. Complains there's no d3d8.dll, so I downloaded one and put it in the directory and now it just quits as soon as you run it. Same if I change it to OpenGL.

Edit2: Right, it was a SecuROM issue. Downloaded the diagnostic tool, which updated the exe file. Still can't use DirectX, but it does run under OpenGL now.

[Andy3536]

I had a similiar problem with Win7 64-bit as well. I just copied over the directory from my old hard drive, and it seems to be fine.

Edit: Scrap that. Just patched it frim 4.08m to 4.09m and now it won't run. Complains there's no d3d8.dll, so I downloaded one and put it in the directory and now it just quits as soon as you run it. Same if I change it to OpenGL.

Edit2: Right, it was a SecuROM issue. Downloaded the diagnostic tool, which updated the exe file. Still can't use DirectX, but it does run under OpenGL now.

I was under the impression that it runs better with Open GL anyway??


No problem here with Vista 64..... although mine is the Gog version

[Geist]

This one was copied over to this W7 x64 build from the old XP one.

It patched to 4.09m and runs fine.

[Tumble]

if you browse the disc, you'll find the setup.exe and another file called a.exe - run that instead of the setup.exe and it'll install no bother on Vista 64. That's how I did it, and then patched as normal.....