The best way to install the game in Win 7 is not to install it at all but instead copy the folders from and old install on XP or Vista if you were so cunning as to keep one. IL2 in no way needs the few registry keys that it installs, it will run perefctly with no registry keys.

One of the registry keys is there simply to populate the game in your "Add/Remove Programs" list. Which is totally unnecessary since nobody would ever want to unistall a game like IL2! But if you did you could easily just manually delete the folders. I had the Windows 7 RC1 ( beta ) until a while back and I played IL2 from another hard drive I had XP installed on and it worked flawlessly! I also copied the folders and files into my Win 7 beta drive. I now have a permanent copy of Win 7 Pro coming in the mail and will do the same thing and will have absolutely no problems by doing so. No need to install IL2 and Vista was the same way. I also migrated from Win98 to XP by doing the same thing at first but later I did in fact install IL2 to XP anyway.

Fearfactor said it all: I just bought a week ago a new PC with Windows 7 Home Premium and copy-pasted the installation folder from my old XP to the new W7-PC. Everything works fine, no need to do anything special tricks. Haven't tried multiplay with my friends yet but I guess it works fine also.

Fearfactor
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Karvis

You should read the very first post in this thread first before replying :)




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...but remember: ALWAYS use original DVD's when installing. Otherwise there is a possibility to have some sort of problems...

:-)
br
karvis
played IL2 since 2002

I did read it, I just posted my info so others might do this if they upgrade to Win 7 in the future and have a copy of IL2 on Vista of XP now.

To save cluttering up my root folder (C:\) I created a folder called "Games" where I install all games, so nothing sits in the rot of the drive.

Just another option.

:)

Regards.