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Originally Posted by Reggie Mental
Newbie here, but been playing IL2:1946 for over a year now and still love it.
Favourite aircraft are I16 Typ24 for manouverability and clear vision, being an open cockpit, Me262 (all marques) for speed and firepower, although it does suck as a jabo (What was Adolf thinking?) He162C, because its so simple, versatile and effective and similarly the Do335 V13, whether shredding bombers or ground attack, it's awesome.
Anyway, why am I posting?
I don't think I'm getting the best out of my PC setup. I'm running a 6GB, i7 processor machine that is pretty much top notch currently, although my gfx card is the upper end of mid range (ATi Radeon 5570 1024mb) I don't think the gfx card is holding me back though. My monitor is 1920x1080 16:9 HD I'm still running V4.07m as shipped on CD-ROM.
So here is a number of questions.
1. Whilst IL2 is a few years old now, what is the maximum res I can get? Currently the best seems to 1280x960x32, DirectX, Stencil Buffering on. Will a new(er) patch allow me to tweak it any higher and make full use of my monitors highest res?
2.Where can I download the patches?
3. How do I install the patches?
4. Do I have to install them in order, ie; 4.08 then .09, .10 etc?
5. Will the splash screen on launch update, and show what version I'm running?
6. My mission editor does not work. I've looked at the tutorials on other sites and followed them carefully but it seems that certain fields and options are simply missing, so I can't progress. Will update the version with patches cure this?
RSVP
Reggie
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1), you can run whatever res you like. go in to the conf.ini and change, mine is for example
[window]
width=1920
height=1200
ColourBits=32
DepthBits=24
StencilBits=8
ChangeScreenRes=1
FullScreen=1
DrawIfNotFocused=0
EnableResize=0
EnableClose=1
SaveAspect=0
Use3Renders=0
NB if you run the game in directx you will not be able to get perfect mode, run the game in opengl for best gfx, and select perfect mode under landscape in the game, otherwise your stuck on excellent.
difference between excellent landscape and perfect landscape,
2) get patches here,
http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...ownloads&c=564
you will have to register, but the site great anyways.
3) just double click on the patch and point it to your il2 folder.
4) yes
5) yes
6) i think you're using it incorrectly, takes a while to get used to it but its fine in 4.07 (some new options in 4.10.)
heres a good guide,
http://www.il2-fullmissionbuilder.com/index.php
hope that helps
