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Where did you get your AAA pack from BG? I tested the one in the vault (admittedly I didn't download it from the vault and test it like I normally do) and it works fine, the switcher is called 'Il2VersionSwitcher.exe' and it also places 6 *.bat files in the root of the folder. I didn't understand Are you opening the archive in an archive manager? @ Tonar. You haven't pulled down file #4 yet m8, according to the download manager!

For other readers: All eight of them, one is an executable and they must all go in the same folder..then double click the one that ends in .exe..

Whoops. It is here: http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/ Don't know why but........ Uploading to the vault as well, just in case.

Don't encourage him Smash! It's no accident nobody had responded to this post.... :icon_lol:

Remote help is a possibility too Which MOD packs are you applying Tonar? 1. The original guest pack 2. The Modified Spetember update 3. The December Update You can also try this: Switch your version to 2.08, and quit the switcher. Rename: the folder IL2 is installed in\Mods to: the folder IL2 is installed in\352Mods and: the folder IL2 is installed in\Files the folder IL2 is installed in\352Files Then download (if you have not already) the AAA UI installer from our vault, and install and test that. You will have also done some of the ground work required to use my soon to be released switcher. FT may also have his version checker ready for testing soon..

If you have an external drive, or a networked PC with some disk space, you can always try: http://snapshot.de for a small, efficient and free (it is shareware but you can always access the files it creates) drive image program. That will make a complete clone of your laptop disk, and thus ensure you don't lose anything with the inevitable partition delete/recreate/format and XP reinstall you have ahead of you. It is clever software, once you have wiped your system install SnapShot and then load the image you created earlier (you did create one didn't you!) as a virtual drive, you can then use Explorer to drag and drop you needed files to the new disk.

Could be interference/cross over from VGA or power source. Check and adjust routing of audio cables, both external and internal.

Looks like your upload timed out M8.. No worries though, I found a copy and have uploaded it to the Patches/Mods section in the vault. Thanks for trying, S!

Right click speaker icon in task bar (or in control panel - sound and audio) in "Device volume" section click advanced button. Click Options > Properties in next window, then in next click the "Recording" radio button make sure "What U Hear" is ticked and "Line-In 1/Mic" (or whatever your Mic is plugged into), then "OK", make sure "What U Hear" is not selected in the "Recording Control" window that appears, and your Mic is selected. This sounds like it is feed back generated by the what U hear being selected.

Use Ghost or Snapshot (http://snapshot.de) to take an image of All Partitions. Re image with XP, if you need to do a warranty call then repeat above of your XP, then restore the partitions backed up previously.. Of course if system is dead you won't have much joy doing that, but there are cheap adapters that will enable you to connect the drive to USB and put the old OS back.. Funny warranty that says you have to have the original OS though.. I sent an Asus EEEPC back for warranty repair, bought with Linux on and I installed XP. They repaired it no quibble (actually came back with 2 SSD disks when it originally had one

Well.... I would get XP on it if it were mine

Right click task bar > Task Manager. Click processes tab. Find process belonging to track view, right click > set affinity and select the core to assign it to. IL2 should be running only on core 0 (that is what the conf.ini change did). I would do the same with TeamSpeak too, mine was being really screwy the other night until I set it to run on core 1 ( 0=#1 1=#2)

In conf.ini find: ;ProcessAffinityMask=1 remove the ; at start of line. Set affinity for Trackview etc to other cpu core, retest.

64Bit is needed to recognise all 4Gb, with 32bit you will see around 3.25 - 3.5 Gb depending upon video RAM size..

Please do JP, we need more content!

Hibernation file you will not be able to remove until you disable hibernation: 1. Right-click on the desktop and click "Properties" 2. Hit the "Screen Saver" tab 3. Then click the "Power" button under "Monitor Power" 4. Click the "Hibernation" tab, then uncheck the box next to "Enable Hibernation" The system error memory dumps - delete these (curious as to why they are there though...)

I have 46 on 2 DVDs, I did download the PE2 add-on way back.. I was agreeing with you Jim, DVD is by the the best way to go and it is available still. I too have read of the issues/nightmares those buying the download version experience (and now it is on Steam too and that is a mess). Point is, however you get your copy - back it up when you know it works! Then you can experiment with applying the AAA UI mod pack (allegedly it will make the install the same as a DVD copy) and when that works - burn it to DVD pronto!!

I have installed it less than ten times in total I think, and three of those times was in the past week getting clean installs for a 352/AAA Mod comparison. Rest of the time I rely on a copy I made way back

Non-UK guys may appreciate the read this offers, copied from the BBC Business news an article by Robert Preston, who has consistently been ahead on the unfolding crisis: The New Capitalism There's next year, and then there's the next decade. Economic conditions in 2009 will be treacherous. There'll be a formal recession in most developed economies, and the economic contraction is highly likely to be more severe in the UK than almost anywhere else. Companies and consumers will continue to tighten their belts. There'll be a sharp rise in unemployment. The extraordinary volatility we've experienced in the price of sterling, commodities, energy, shares and capital - which makes it so hard for businesses and investors to plan - is unlikely to dissipate. Many businesses, especially big ones, will become unviable - and will present the Government with an appalling dilemma of which ones to put on life support. So it’s understandable that most of us, including ministers, central bankers and regulators, are planning for the next few months. We're building the economic equivalent of bomb shelters and mobile hospitals. But this is no downturn like any we've seen since the Second World War, for two reasons: it's global; and its primary cause is the pricking of a massive debt bubble. We borrowed too much, especially in the US and the UK. And the process of paying the money back is not only leading to a fall in living standards but is also precipitating very significant changes in how the global financial economy operates. Capitalism is changing in fundamental ways. For many years to come, what's happening will affect the relationship between business and government, between taxpayers and the private sector, between employers and employees, between investors and companies. Arguably the global economic crisis will turn out to be more significant for us and other developed economies than the collapse of communism. A New Capitalism is likely to emerge from the rubble. And although it’s impossible to be precise about how the reconstructed economy will operate, parts of its outline are taking shape. What lies ahead can be determined from an understanding of what’s gone wrong with the existing model. This, in itself, is no reason for gloom or despair. For many, the New Capitalism may well seem fairer and less alienating than the model of the past 30 years, in that the system's salvation may require it to be kinder, gentler, less divisive, less of a casino in which the winner takes all. Here are some of the numbers that tell us what’s gone wrong. For the UK, if you aggregate together consumer, corporate and public-sector debt, the ratio of our borrowings to our annual economic output is a bit over 300%, or over £4000bn. That’s a similar ratio of debt to GDP as that of the US, and it’s a record. Over the past decade, we borrowed and we borrowed and we borrowed: we assumed that the day when we had to pay it back would never arrive, that there would always be an opportunity to roll over the debt. Households borrowed too much, £1200bn on mortgages alone. Big companies borrowed too much, especially those taken off the stock market in private equity deals. Note however that for all the political fuss about the need for banks to maintain lines of credit to small companies, they're the unsung heroes of our tale of monumental financial folly: even today, the aggregated savings of small companies exceed their debt. One of the best ways of understanding how all our debts were accumulated is to look at the gross foreign current liabilities of our banks. These rose from £1,100bn in 1997 to £4,400bn this year (again, about three times the size of our annual economic output). This trend tells two stories. It shows the massive and unsustainable growth in the City of London and our financial services industry - which is now shrinking with a vengeance, at the cost of massive job losses and evaporating tax revenues (perhaps £30bn to £40bn of income for the Exchequer gone forever). But it also shows that our debts are, to a large extent, the recycled savings of other countries, notably the massive savings and surpluses of China, other Asian economies and the Middle East (one note of caution here: a sizeable proportion of these foreign currency liabilities, but by no means all, were used to buy foreign currency assets). To put it in crude terms, for much of the past decade, millions of Chinese slaved away on near subsistence wages and still managed to save, both as a nation (China swanks £1,400bn in foreign exchange reserves) and as individuals. And to a large extent they were working to improve our living standards, because they made more and more of the stuff we wanted at cheaper and cheaper prices - and clever bankers took their savings and lent the cash to us, so that we could buy the houses we cherished, the cars we desired, the flat-screen TVs. This imbalance - between the savings of China, India, Japan and Saudi and our indebtedness, between their massive trade surpluses and our deficits - was never sustainable. At some point, the Chinese were bound to say, “we’d like some of the cake now please, which means you’ll have to have a bit lessâ€

Can you put a copy of that patch in the Vault please? Also take a look At this post about a download version issue. Thanks.

These are my settings:

Brilliant. Got to go in a page on main site methinks, I found a post from Arsenal today that would merit same treatment.

Dxdiag looks good, you should be able to raise Sound Hardware acceleration a notch (or even all the way up with multi-core) What we need to see is your conf.ini (just copy and paste contents here I have set post size to allow thousands and thousands of words ) Also what AA/AF settings do you have for your vid card?

I'm using the 9.1s. There are some graphical anomalies with them (not so evident in IL2 I am pleased to say) and performance wise they seem very good. You are using the 8.8s by the looks of it, judging by the file version of ati2dvag.dll.. We are quite limited on the version we can use with the 4870 series card, so far the 9.1s have proved to be the best for me in respect of IL2.

Make sure the old CDRom drive is empty before you remove it! Other than that, check that the new one is an IDE drive and not SATA (I managed to buy a SATA DVD drive by accident - not that it mattered). OEM drives tend to come without burning software, so you will have to source this independently. Nero (http://www.ahead.de) is very good a reasonably priced. If you just want CD/DVD burning then try http://www.poweriso.com Has advantages of being light, burns and creates images and also has a virtual cd driver to mount ISO files with.