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Yes, I have one now. A W10 one. Maybe not call them, but use the chat. Use Copy/Paste Or let them remotely control your PC. Good Luck!

I had the exact same thing. This is what I did: Install Windows 10, skipping the key entry at the installer. After I could not activate it with my key, I started a chat with an MS Employee. Raj S. was his name. Explained what I did - New Mobo + CPU, Gave him my W10 code, ánd the original W7 code. He then gave me a brand new code, and with that one I could activate W10.

So, it kinda is all running good. Managed to get the water cooler set over from the old board to the new one. Nice! But, now I got a screaming big cooler lying around ... Sure, the two game controllers have swapped position ... oh well. As I reinstalled W10 from scratch, a lot of things need re-assigning. No worries there. Regularly, some tick-tock-clicking sounds come from the system, as if an old style HDD is going to go bad, and as I got two of 'm in there ... Currently running with one of 'm disconnected. Weird thing though is that the contents of the disks are available just fine while the clicking is happening. Already discovered it also clicks when my 2TB disk is disconnected, so it looks like that's not the one in trouble. Hm. It's all good. I think.

Me thinks Monday is better for me than Wednesday... will try and show up!

Here ya go, link to the Dutch shop, there's a UK version of it, but I could not find that specific kit in there (did not spend a lot of time on it though) https://www.alternate.nl/ALTERNATE/Upgrade-Kit-Prime-Z370-P-i7-8700K-16GB/html/product/1409186?lk=17219

So, as my I5-2500K / 12GB combo, bought in 2011 is getting old, I decided it's upgrade time! But then, I quickly got tired of all the options to choose from, and simply looked at what would fit my case, and Power supply. Which will remain. As will my 970GTX. And, I ran across a kit! Motherboard, CPU (I7-8700K) and memory DDR4-3200 16GB, and a big CPU cooler too. The stuff should arrive tomorrow... As it's a kit, it should all fit together nicely Then I remembered a site where you can enter your Pc's components, and thus determine it's bottleneck (theoretically) : http://thebottlenecker.com Had used it before on my current system, and I had forgotten the result, as I was not looking to upgrade at time: 12% bottleneck on the 970GTX. (Anything over 10% is considered to be a bottleneck) So, now with the new stuff: 29% bottleneck on the 970GTX. lol. The suggest I get me a 1080ti. Brilliant! Oh well, I hope I can get it to run quickly and nicely, and will be able to transfer my W10 license

All boards will have some integrated video nowadays me thinks. CPU's have a GPU in them, don't they? Looks like it's normal. Got mine switched off in the Bios. (I5 2500K Oc-ed up to 4.3Ghz. It's from 2011)

Hm, get an i5 with good speed. Some board, some memory with some o/c capability.... Really, I do not know which exactly, and I got a feeling it doesn't matter as much as it used to, which components you pick. But, that's probably just me: just get some decent stuff for some decent amount of money... nothing too complex, too fancy, so it will last a while, and stay steady and dependable

One suggestion: right click Il-2.exe, run as administrator (?)

Thanks for that, will surely apply this curve setting, but I am not sure when I will take a chance to try it out! Really nice of you to explain all the why of the how regarding spitpitch...

Wait... what? Oh, yeah, I get it now... wait... cool, I can do that...

lol... @Dennis: "Are you brave or what...?" Thanks for them recordings Arthur, gave me a good laugh!

Good training session on "Wings of Liberty - Copy" Arthur and Wingflyr in Yak sescorted Delta and me in IL2's. Attacked artillery, Delta got 6, I got 3. Back over home base, I joined a bit of dogfighting and took the tailplane off of a 109, it was already smoking and out of control, but it still was fun to hit him. Landed! Good fun, the IL2-1941 does fly rather nicely, you can do lots of damage with it. Learned some more stuff about it, and the game... ID-ing a/c is difficult, close to impossible. To be over friendly territory with flak is a big help though! Their exploding shells point at them quite nicely...

+one... Sorry!

Oh, Arthur, yes, I'd like to try some more BoS, on a Monday or Wednesday .... would be nice!

Propnut, "Sorry for butting in" ... Whát? lol, since when is that possible around here? Thanks for your input !!

Thanks Arthur, that helps a lot! To wait is best at the moment.

I bet we can set up a 'server'. But, who's gonna configure it so there's a mission running, and a next one rotating / starting? Currently, we do not have that knowledge in house... I do not even know whether one can configure 'short icons'... or long ones ...

It was said they had mounted a British compass in his I-16 ...

Hm, okay, Hans gets the lead lined life jacket ...

Cool! After you've set it up regarding keys and video settings etc., then make a backup!

Yeah, basically, 4.13m is the very latest, but only Vanilla. So, no mods. We could use this as our standard, but it means we can't use a lot of interesting maps any more, and we would lose a lot of aircraft types as well! So, we still are on the earlier version, as it has the HSFX mod set. Okay, I've added your IP address, now read the first post by Jabo (click here) and follow the instructions regarding chkmods. (Download, extract, run as administrator etc.) Keep us posted! (You may want to skip step 1, as your install is not working at the moment, so a backup does not really make sense)

Wow, you got a challenge on your hands then HSFX 7.03 should go on top of 4.12.2m. But, there's a chance it will work... If you start it, what does it say bottom left in the splash screen? (I'll just prepare the utility for you... It needs your IP address - I should be able to retrieve that - being a Moderator here - Are you using the IL2 Pc to post here? Or rather, a Pc on the same network as the IL2 Pc?)

Welcome Mosinut! Let us know how the 1946 install goes, we got some utility that might be able to assist you in that, and that can 1946 to DD's standard.

Brilliant idea! And we can make it even more better ! Once the Anson thinks he's found something, he sends out a boat, ánd a Walrus! Walrus lands on the water, picks up whatever Charly, Ivan, Joe or Hans is in the Channel, takes off again, and flies home! Should the Walrus crash, the boat can finish the job! Oh carp, know we're giving away what could've been a complete surprise! Oh well ... Like the idea, I'll see what I can do!