4.11 General debugging

[Sledgehammer427]

First post on the site, having trouble with the patch.

My game does not seem to want to upgrade from Version 4.10.1m,

Perhaps this is because the files I have are broken or something like that, either way, heres the files and where I got them. I have IL-2 1946 boxed copy with the bonus DVD. I don't know the version it starts at or which version I have, that is if English and International are different.

From my base install I go

-4.09m from Mission4today, a 500mb plus zipped file with an .exe named 4.09m
then
-IL-2_MegaPatch4.10.1m_EN, from mission4today. 1GB plus file with an exe named RunMe
then
-4.11 downloaded from mission4today using the megaupload mirror
and
-4.11.1 using this site.

Have tried multiple approaches, run as administrator, basically everything.
Running Win7 Home Premium 64bit

Hope I've provided enough info!
Thanks!
SH427

[II/JG54_Emil]

Is you game located in C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86)?

If yes copy it to somewhere else and patch again there.

[PilotError]

Originally Posted by Sledgehammer427

First post on the site, having trouble with the patch.

My game does not seem to want to upgrade from Version 4.10.1m,

Perhaps this is because the files I have are broken or something like that, either way, heres the files and where I got them. I have IL-2 1946 boxed copy with the bonus DVD. I don't know the version it starts at or which version I have, that is if English and International are different.

From my base install I go

-4.09m from Mission4today, a 500mb plus zipped file with an .exe named 4.09m
then
-IL-2_MegaPatch4.10.1m_EN, from mission4today. 1GB plus file with an exe named RunMe
then
-4.11 downloaded from mission4today using the megaupload mirror
and
-4.11.1 using this site.

Have tried multiple approaches, run as administrator, basically everything.
Running Win7 Home Premium 64bit

Hope I've provided enough info!
Thanks!
SH427

Hi Sledgehammer,

Was your game working at 4.10.1 ? If so then it is most likely you have a corrupted download of the 4.11 patch, so try to download it again.

However, you said that you first installed the 4.09 patch. If I remember correctly the DVD boxed version starts at 4.07, and if you have missed the 4.08 patch then that is where your problem lies.
I believe the 4.08 patch is included on the 1946 DVD, but you have to install it over your base installed 4.07.

Your current version can be seen in the bottom left corner of the loading screen when you start the game. The international version is the same as the English version, the alternative being the Russian version.

All the patches must be installed in order.
After installing a patch run the game and check the version number has changed on the loading screen.
If the game is working okay (it would be a good idea to make a backup copy at that point so you don't need to go right back to the beginning if something goes wrong later) then install the next patch, check, test, backup,etc,etc.

As II/JG54_Emil says, it would be a good idea to install the game somewhere other than Program Files. It stops the UAC in Windows 7 from causing problems.

Hope that has been of some help.

[Jones]

I think you can skip 4.09m if you are using the Megapatch. That one includes all previous patches.

Also, with Win7 make sure that you are running the patches as Administrator if you install into the default directory (C:\Program Files). If you are not running the patch as Administrator you could be sending the files somewhere other than the game install directory which would explain the problem you are seeing.

[RegRag1977]

Small things:

P39 Airacobra can no longer show closed radiator flaps?

In outside view, top of pilots head sometimes goes through the canopy

[RegRag1977]

I noticed a strange thing. First, as we know all P51C/D have the late D version wing but only with 2 guns. The strange thing is that if you shoot at the wing (front area) the damage textures show a third gun!

Does that "exploit" make the stock P51B/C a frankenplane? )

It would be nice to have an early straight wing and why not, a P51A... if one is allowed to dream!

[Lagarto]

Could you please tweak a little more the daylight hours? Recently I've been flying some missions on the MTO map, and at 05.00 AM it's still pitch black. Not very realistic imho. The problem is that DGen generates many missions before the sunrise at roughly 05.45 AM, and in an offline campaign I have to skip them or manually change the start hour.

[Asheshouse]

Originally Posted by Lagarto

Could you please tweak a little more the daylight hours? Recently I've been flying some missions on the MTO map, and at 05.00 AM it's still pitch black. Not very realistic imho. The problem is that DGen generates many missions before the sunrise at roughly 05.45 AM, and in an offline campaign I have to skip them or manually change the start hour.

Sunrise in Rome today 6:54am. So what is the problem?
A great many real life missions started in the dark so as to arrive over the target at dawn.

[II/JG54_Emil]

Originally Posted by Asheshouse

Sunrise in Rome today 6:54am. So what is the problem?
A great many real life missions started in the dark so as to arrive over the target at dawn.

1+!