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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!

"Growing Up" is said to be mandatory, I've tried it, decided it's not for me. It's highly over rated anyways...

It's AI only indeed. No way to fly it currently, and I haven't heard anything about them trying to make it flyable. Too bad. Take a Blenheim, empty loadout, squit your eyes a bit and you're half way there! There's two sub-missions that may spawn in on our server with the Anson in it... there's a chance you see it fly in there, although it will be a small one...

You sure that was in 1946? Sounds a lot like ROF... I mean ... zeppelins and shift... ?

That would not be good... I think it was back in 1989 when I was close - within icon range - to the Notre Dame in Paris, during J's funeral services? Oh dear. That's ... close to 30 years!

lol... great timing... MS is already rolling out a fix for it... it's installed on my pc, and it's still running. Will find out later today whether performance is being affected ... (On the other hand, before the fix was installed, I ran a checker tool by Intel, which stated my system was not vulnerable, so... I dunno ...)

Yep, She does fly nicely ... though most of the time she's rather far away, even worse than spotting a dot in IL2 ... lol Has an electrical motor I guess? Thanks for that!

Nice!

Great job! Rigging looks very nice, as does the woodwork!

I do not see any tearing, but have Vsync On in NVidia's control panel...

What if you switch off Vsync in Game? I did that, FPS got unlocked from 60 and are much higher... whether or not choppy? I do not know, have not looked to much at the scenery, all the time looking at the map for icons, or the sky for dots... Some scenery was seen chasing low flying a/c but the focus was never on it...

Can't say I have, and can't say I have not. As in not tested it. I switched off the in game V-sync, which gives me higher FPS. But I did see a massive drop around the Isle of Wight when looking at the ground, at that one time I joined the ATAG server for a bit.

So, as I ran out of patience, I put the server up, running it from my own pc. Not sure whether I will keep it running 24/7 ... but if I do switch the PC off, that'll be the reason it's no longer there ...

Hello Retro, Welcome here! You can never embarrass us as a group, we are fully capable of doing that ourselves! Edit: But you are very welcome to join us doing that !!

Had a good session today, invited and led by Fenrir. Spitfire! So, first take off was yeah, a take off. No tires screeches, no damage to the runway. Need some more training though. Started shooting up some ground targets, some nice ones, that did not shoot at us. Shot one up, then my left hand wing got hit by the one that suddenly raised its barrel up in the air, or maybe it was me dipping it too low. So, anyways, I managed to fly it back to base, no way it would land - so I bailed. Took a new one, Fen landed as - I think - only he can And he perfrormed a quick re-arm and re-fuel, as our AA was firing. So I took off from the taxi way - scramble - rather similar to the first take off - all over the place. By the time we were in the air, the offending a/c had been shot down by AA. Good. So, we went off back to the ground targets, shot them up some more. Last targets done, off to a supply column that should be near. It was. We wrecked it, both got 7 trucks. So, back home. To land. Oh dear, the thought of that!! But then my game crashed. Oops. An error in d3d11.dll. Oh well, Restart PC, all is fine again. Took off, and we set out to the enemy airbase. Fen spotted the dots, I followed him. He was a bit ahead, so in the end, he got the interest of two 190D9's. Somewhere before my game crash, I had tuned my rudder sensitivity, that improved my hitting... so I shot both 190's down. For sure, a lot of that success was because of Fen's SA and callouts On the way home, Fen called out once more: "FT, BREAK!" And usually, my stoic being and right out coolness - one could also say lack of reaction speed or the "Hmmm, Hey, what?" does not help in situations like that, but in this case it was not relevant as at the very same moment, the AA gun shooting at me did damage. Inspection by Fenrir learned my right hand elevator was gone, the stabilizer it had been connected to damaged, the left hand elevator was perforated, as was the rudder.... So, yeah that explained the funny flying the machine did. Now I was afraid the thing would be completely out of lateral control in a slow speed landing attempt, so I was getting ready to bail. Then Fenrir advised me to climb to 4K Ft, slow down, see what it would do. Well, it did not too bad, until I lowered the flaps. Yeah, so, it nearly went out of control, but I could get it back. Phew. So, next was the task to try and bring her lower, lined up on the runway / grass next to it for a belly landing. Control was still difficult - such slow response on the elevator, no rudder - takes patience to slow it down just using power ... There's the runway, there's the grass. (so my approach was good!). Good speed. Now you know, there's that ground-effect. Brilliant when you're in a Spit with elevator damage. Yeah, just when I was about to close the throttle completely, and let it 'flare' on the grass... the nose just pitched up and no way to catch that... Managed to bring her back up to some 3K Ft, and bailed out - again ... Next time, I'm gonna try and land the thing! Hopefully when I somehow make it home without damage Thanks Fenrir, good fun, good show. And to all that are thinking about getting into DCS, stop thinkin', and go for it. And grab the Spit. Even if you get to fly it once a fortnight or once a month like me... it is so effin bwilliant! You do need to know how to do stuff, and when to do it, but if you assign the Autostart procedure - like I did - it just takes some time to fire it up, nothing else. (One can even hear the auto procedure operate the wobble pump) and if you just keep an eye on the Rev counter and on the boost, oh, and on the speed, the Spitfire just flies itself.

Unfortunately our server is not up at the moment, reason is it being down. Have asked Rog to take a look, so ... patiently waiting ...

Have now changed the skill level of the bombers gunners a bit, inspired by reading this post at IL2Sturmovik.com. Haven't got a clue what its result will be though, just let me know if it's better, or worse

It is a sign indeed. Timing wise? No idea

That's cool... Just realized I never paid a thing for it, got it gifted, cos back in them days I was a 'Moderator' at the UbiZoo... Now that I've had so much good times out of it, I should put some money into it... (Oh, and still having those) So, any one over here in need of it, just holler here, I'll pay for it! First come, first served! Disclaimer: You gots to be a DD!