Windows Vista Home Premium x64

I found a post that helped me install IL2 1946 on my new computer. The original post is at: http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/4...55/m/1921070116

Windows Vista Home Premium x64

My system: Q6600, P35 Platinium, NX8800GTX, 4G0 Corsair TwinX2 all well cooled and too much junk to list

I've done a stock install of Vista onto my machine......what a switch compared to XP Pro. The only reason that I did this was XP can only manage up to 3.2 Go of Ram and Vista can manage up to 128 Go's . So to take advantage of my new system......I bit the bullet and installed it.

After having read all the horror stories of the dreaded Vista I went into this a bit in reverse.

I now have a solid system running but I have to tell you it took lots of research on the net and learning this program.

In my opinion, I like it a lot.....so far lol.

With my stock install, there are 2 "program files"? folders named:

a) Program Files

Program Files (x86) where XP Pro compatibility stuff is installed

Steps I took for installing Il2 1946, HyperLobby, Teamspeak 2, Tso and so-on

1) I turned off Vista UAC.

a) Control Panel, User Accounts, "Turn User Account Control on or off"? un check the box, click "Apply"? then Reboot.

2) Put game disk into drive (those with downloads the security/compatibility steps are the same)

3) Do not do "autorun"? click cancel.. you want to "explore"? contents of disk. Find the "install"? exe file eg: a.exe and Right Click on it. Choose "Properties"?.

a) in the "attributes"? click on "Advanced tab"? make sure that both the boxes on top are checked then click "OK"? then "Apply"?

next click on "Compatibility"? tab on top then put check in box for "?Run this program in compatibility mode for:"? make sure that the drop down box is showing "Windows XP (service pak 2)"?

c) still in the "compatibility"? page, click on "Show settings for all users " and again, put a check in the box and choose "Windows XP (service pak2)"? then click "Apply"?

d) now click on "Security"? tab where you will see group or user names on your system. In my case, I have "System"?, "Administrators (my name\Administrators)"? and "Users (computername\Users)"? hilight "Users (computername\Users)"? then click on "Edit"? again hilight "Users (computername\Users)"? and lower down on panel you will see "Permissions for Users"? put a check in "Allow"? box for "Full control"? click "apply"? all of the boxes in "Allow"? should now have check marks in them. Click OK to return to previous, again click OK and window closes.

4) Now for the installation......right click on the exe file that you have just done all of this work to and choose "Run as Administrator"?......it will now do it's install.

The program will be installed into the "Program Files (x86) folder.

Now we have a Desktop Icon to set up.

1) Right click on it....choose properties....it defaults to the "shortcut"? tab... .click on "Advanced"? and put a check "Run as administrator"? click OK

2) now click on "Compatibility"? tab to make sure that the check is still in the box to run the program in XP sp2 mode...also check in "show settings for all users"? panel.

3) Also again the "Security"? tab....hilight " yourname (computername\Administrators) click "edit"? and make sure that all the boxes in the "allow"? column have checks in them.

Your game will now run in "XP compatibility"? mode.

Remember you have to do these steps as well for the patches....right click on the ".exe"? file....properties....compatibility....security...OK OK now window closes, right click again and "run as administrator"?........the patch will find the program no problems....Vista directs all stuff "compatibility XP sp2"? to the "Program files (x86)"? folder basically the default install location "Program files"? folder in XP if that isn't too confusing....I know I am trying to get this all down for yawl

This must be done for all of your applications ".EXE"?

Il2 1946 il2fb.exe, il2setup.exe, Ngen.exe

HyperLobbyPro3 hlpro.exe, aping.exe

Teamspeak2_RC2 TeamSpeak.exe

TSO tso.exe

Don't forget to setup your desktop shortcuts as well.....

Now lets go to the resident Vista firewall and security area.

Control panel, windows firewall....make sure that your games are in the "exeptions"? area...same as XP sp2 basically.

Make sure that your video drivers are up to date.....I had problems that 5 minutes into the game my system would hang and I'd have to do a hard boot......Nvidia forceware ver. 163.69.....I installed 169.04 Beta and have not had any thing but a smile on me yap since. new beta is out 169.09 its now at v169.25

now here are some of the settings for my game:

you'll notice that for the screen res it's showing 640x480..I've set my res in the conf.ini file....remember that all settings that are done here have to be done before any manual changes in the conf.ini file.

read this link for a better explanation of what everything does in the setup..scroll down to "setup explained by covino" http://www.airwarfare.com/tech/system.htm#002

[il2]

title=Il2-Sturmovik Forgotten Battles

hotkeys=HotKey game

[window] *** resolutions not included ingame are entered here. this must be entered and saved after any changes have been made with the Il2 setup program and the following must be set to these values (marked with ***)

width=1920

height=1200

ColourBits=32

DepthBits=24

StencilBits=8

ChangeScreenRes=1 ***

FullScreen=1

DrawIfNotFocused=1

EnableResize=0 ***

EnableClose=1

SaveAspect=0 ***

Use3Renders=0

[GLPROVIDER]

GL=Opengl32.dll

[GLPROVIDERS]

Open GL=Opengl32.dll

DirectX=dx8wrap.dll

[NET]

speed=8000

routeChannels=0

serverChannels=31

localPort=21000

remotePort=21000

SkinDownload=1

serverName=No Name

serverDescription=

remoteHost=

localHost=

socksHost=

checkServerTimeSpeed=1

checkClientTimeSpeed=1

checkTimeSpeedDifferense=0.05

checkTimeSpeedInterval=5

[MaxLag]

farMaxLagTime=3.5

nearMaxLagTime=1.5

cheaterWarningDelay=2

cheaterWarningNum=1

[chat]

region=(dx=0.645,dy=0.08083333,x=0.0,y=0.0)

adr0=ALL

[game]

Arcade=0

HighGore=1

mapPadX=0.66875

mapPadY=-0.046666667

viewSet=52

Intro=0

NoSubTitles=1

NoChatter=0

NoHudLog=0

NoLensFlare=0

iconTypes=3

eventlog=eventlog.lst

eventlogkeep=0

3dgunners=1

TypeClouds=1

[HotKey game]

PrintScreen=ScreenShot

P=pause

Pause=pause

[HotKey gui]

Escape=activate

[HookViewFly Config]

timeFirstStep=2.0

deltaZ=10.0

[HookView]

MouseLeft=Len

[HookView Config]

AzimutSpeed=0.1

TangageSpeed=0.1

LenSpeed=1.0

MinLen=1.0

DefaultLen=20.0

MaxLen=3000.0

Speed=6

[HotKey builder]

MouseLeft=objectMove

MouseRight=popupmenu

Enter=freeView

Shift MouseLeft=worldZoom

Alt MouseLeft=select+

Alt MouseRight=select-

Alt Ctrl=unselect

PageDown=change+

PageUp=change-

End=change++

Home=change--

Ctrl MouseLeft=insert+

Insert=insert+

NumPad-0=insert+

F=fill

Ctrl MouseRight=delete+

NumPad.=delete+

Delete=delete+

Backspace=cursor

Tab=cursor

F10=land

F11=onLand

NumPad-=normalLand

NumPad+=toLand

NumPad-5=resetAngles

NumPad-8=resetTangage90

NumPad-7=stepAzimut-5

NumPad-4=stepAzimut-15

NumPad-1=stepAzimut-30

NumPad-9=stepAzimut5

NumPad-6=stepAzimut15

NumPad-3=stepAzimut30

[MouseXYZ]

F1=SpeedSlow

F2=SpeedNormal

F3=SpeedFast

MouseRight=XYmove

F4 MouseRight=Zmove

MouseMiddle=Amove

F5 MouseRight=Amove

F6 MouseRight=Tmove

F7 MouseRight=Kmove

[MouseXYZ Config]

RealTime=1

[HotKey Console]

Shift Tab=Activate

[Console]

HISTORY=1024

HISTORYCMD=1024

LOAD=console.cmd

SAVE=console.cmd

LOG=0

LOGTIME=0

LOGFILE=log.lst

LOGKEEP=0

[sound]

SoundUse=1

SoundEngine=1

Speakers=1

Placement=0

SoundFlags.reversestereo=1

RadioFlags.Enabled=0

RadioEngine=2

MusicVolume=1

ObjectVolume=14

MusState.takeoff=0

MusState.inflight=0

MusState.crash=0

MusFlags.play=0

MasterVolume=14

Attenuation=7

SoundMode=3

SamplingRate=2

NumChannels=3

SoundExt.occlusions=0

SoundFlags.hardware=1

SoundFlags.streams=1

SoundFlags.duplex=1

SoundExt.acoustics=0

SoundExt.volumefx=0

SoundFlags.voicemgr=0

SoundFlags.static=1

VoiceVolume=13

Channels=2

SoundExt.extrender=0

SoundFlags.bugscorrect=0

SoundSetupId=8

ActivationLevel=0.02

Preemphasis=0.85

RadioLatency=0.5

AGC=1

PTTMode=1

SoundFlags.UseRadioChatter=1

SoundFlags.AutoActivation=0

RadioFlags.PTTMode=0

RadioFlags.PlayClicks=0

ActLevel=0

MicLevel=0

SoundFlags.forceEAX1=0

[rts]

;ProcessAffinityMask=0 this is where you set for multi-core, myself I left it default let the quad core work I say

mouseUse=2

joyUse=1

trackIRUse=1

DisableIME=0

locale=

[rts_mouse]

SensitivityX=1.0

SensitivityY=1.0

Invert=0

SensitivityZ=1.0

[rts_joystick]

X=0 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 100 0

Y=0 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 100 0

Z=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

RZ=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0

FF=1

U=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0

V=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0

1X=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0

1Y=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0

1RZ=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0

1U=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0

1V=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0

1X1=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0

1Y1=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0

1RZ1=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0

1U1=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0

1V1=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0

[Render_DirectX]

TexQual=3

TexMipFilter=2

TexCompress=0

TexFlags.UseDither=1

TexFlags.UseAlpha=0

TexFlags.UseIndex=0

TexFlags.PolygonStipple=1

TexFlags.UseClampedSprites=0

TexFlags.DrawLandByTriangles=1

TexFlags.UseVertexArrays=1

TexFlags.DisableAPIExtensions=0

TexFlags.ARBMultitextureExt=1

TexFlags.TexEnvCombineExt=1

TexFlags.SecondaryColorExt=1

TexFlags.VertexArrayExt=1

TexFlags.ClipHintExt=0

TexFlags.UsePaletteExt=0

TexFlags.TexAnisotropicExt=0

TexFlags.TexCompressARBExt=1

TexFlags.TexEnvCombine4NV=0

TexFlags.TexEnvCombineDot3=0

TexFlags.DepthClampNV=0

TexFlags.SeparateSpecular=0

TexFlags.TextureShaderNV=0

HardwareShaders=0

Shadows=2

Specular=2

SpecularLight=2

DiffuseLight=2

DynamicalLights=1

MeshDetail=2

VisibilityDistance=3

Sky=2

Forest=2

LandShading=3

LandDetails=2

LandGeom=2

TexLarge=1

TexLandQual=3

TexLandLarge=1

VideoSetupId=4

ForceShaders1x=0

PolygonOffsetFactor=-0.15

PolygonOffsetUnits=-3.0

[Render_OpenGL]

TexQual=3

TexMipFilter=2

TexCompress=0

TexFlags.UseDither=1

TexFlags.UseAlpha=0

TexFlags.UseIndex=0

TexFlags.PolygonStipple=0

TexFlags.UseClampedSprites=0

TexFlags.DrawLandByTriangles=1

TexFlags.UseVertexArrays=1

TexFlags.DisableAPIExtensions=0

TexFlags.ARBMultitextureExt=1

TexFlags.TexEnvCombineExt=1

TexFlags.SecondaryColorExt=1

TexFlags.VertexArrayExt=1

TexFlags.ClipHintExt=1

TexFlags.UsePaletteExt=1

TexFlags.TexAnisotropicExt=1

TexFlags.TexCompressARBExt=0

TexFlags.TexEnvCombine4NV=1

TexFlags.TexEnvCombineDot3=1

TexFlags.DepthClampNV=1

TexFlags.SeparateSpecular=1

TexFlags.TextureShaderNV=1

HardwareShaders=1

Shadows=2

Specular=2

SpecularLight=2

DiffuseLight=2

DynamicalLights=1

MeshDetail=2

VisibilityDistance=3

Sky=2

Forest=2

LandShading=3

LandDetails=2

LandGeom=2

TexLarge=1

TexLandQual=3

TexLandLarge=1

VideoSetupId=17

Water=4

Effects=2

ForceShaders1x=0

PolygonOffsetFactor=-0.15

PolygonOffsetUnits=-3.0

Here are a few links that I've found very useful....lots of good info, tricks, and tips....remember read thru before doing and don't forget to make a system restore point before doing any modifications.....that way you have a starting point that you know that everything worked fine.......

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/ubb.x?a=frm&...&f=49310655

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~chapman/il2guide/technical.htm

http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?nam...Base&cat=35

http://www.airwarfare.com/tech/system.htm#002

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&amp...&m=51910959

http://www.gozr.net/iocl/index.php

http://hyperfighter.sk/modules.php?name=Fo...=hlpro+settings

http://www.vistax64.com/#vista-forums

http://www.tweakguides.com/

http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/servicecfg.htm

http://www.howtogeek.com/tag/windows-vista/#network

http://www.errorforum.com/microsoft-window...ide-v1-0-a.html

http://pctuneuptips.com/tips/vista_tweaks/?ref=insert

http://apcmag.com/vista_activation

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/windows/e...54d7bc1033.mspx

http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.php/Wind...patibility_List

http://www.inspectmygadget.com/2007/06/04/...grams-in-vista/

http://www.overclock.net/windows/166034-vista-tweaks.html

any other tips and tweaks should be posted here...please do not spam this thread as it would be a great reference area for all

thanks

NORAD_B1Spear

This message has been edited. Last edited by: B1Spear2006, Sat December 29 2007 19:43

Vista Home Premium x64

P35 Platinium, Q6600, NX8800 GTX, 4Go. Corsair TwinX C4, Antec 900 case, TT Toughpower 700W, Zalman CNPS9700NT Cpu fan,G15 keys, G5 Mouse, 24" Samsung 245B/W, Cable 1Mbps up/ 7Mbps dwn and finally a smile on my face....IT ALL WORKS