1946 - where to start?

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Orpheus

'Lo chaps, bought IL2-1946 in the Steam sale because CloD has given me the bug (and is a bit too clunky atm for my tastes)... what should I be looking for in terms of updates & mods to get the best out of the game?
Cheers!

I would say patch the sim to 4.10.1 then once you patch it to 4.10.1 copy that entire stock install to another drive or an 8 G thumb drive as a back up.. after that fly it stock for about a week or two.. then get HSFX 5.0 & The Hot Fix.

If you want UP 3.0 you can coy that 4.10.1 stock that you backed up to another location over to your active drive.. for instance my UBI folder has two 46 installs.. one I call 46 UP and the other 46 HSFX ... and then add 3.0 to that stock install .... Make sure you leave your back up stock sim on the other drive you originally backed it up to.. Also once you get your stick configured the way you want it on your working install.. copy the Users folder over to your stock backup.. that way if you ever do have to reinstall for any reason you wont have to resetup your stick.

[Orpheus]

Going to wait for UP3 full release I think. The HSFX mod, when activated in JSGME turns all the briefing text etc into Russian, making it a bit useless for me, which is a shame as I like the sound of the detailed flight models.

Thanks for all the help chaps.

[Romanator21]

That's why you start with the stock game first...but oh, well. If this isn't falling on deaf ears, always be sure to make a backup.

[Orpheus]

It's not falling on deaf ears - I'm familiar enough with the game that I've had no troubles flying whatsoever. If it weren't for the Russian text it would be fine, and spending a few weeks flying 'vanilla' isn't going to change this one (and only) problem!

[Romanator21]

If you backed up the game before rushing to download mods you wouldn't have that one (and only) problem.

[Porksmuggler]

yeah, because backing up your game will magically make the text not set to Russian, lol.

Here's a real fix, if you are running the Steam version of 1946, the EnjoyrPatch for NoAddons v5.2 should do the trick.

http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...etails&id=1972

did you install the HSFX 5.01 hotfix?
http://www.242sqn.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2567

[MaxGunz]

Because copying your backup over the botched version takes a few minutes.

[tk471138]

Originally Posted by Porksmuggler

yeah, because backing up your game will magically make the text not set to Russian, lol.

Here's a real fix, if you are running the Steam version of 1946, the EnjoyrPatch for NoAddons v5.2 should do the trick.

http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...etails&id=1972

did you install the HSFX 5.01 hotfix?
http://www.242sqn.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2567

this should fix your thing, and give you a few more campaigns i suffered from the same issue did with the russian briefing, their are actually a few fixes, and for this issue floating around... and if you want the detailed flight models you must enable the thing in jsgme called 'expert mode...' and then that will put the updated flight models in, they say its a work in progress so hopefully they will add more soon...

it appears someone has already directed you to a fix for your language problem, but here is alink for a read me file for hsfx
http://warwingsart.com/HSFX/HistorySFX_50_readme.rtf

[tk471138]

Read me file for HSfx
http://warwingsart.com/HSFX/HistorySFX_50_readme.rtf

and i also installed the skin patch into a hsfx5 install and it worked fine...

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Ze-Jamz

Dont forget Ultrapack3.0 too mate..Just as good as HSFX

That's debatable.. Highly.

Enjoy the sim Orpheus.. and I hope ypu made your stock backup. All it will take is having to reinstall the sim once to help you see the plusses associated with doing that.