Strike Fighters 2 on Windows XP?

[hawker111]

I am finally going to purchase:

 

Strike Fighters 2:

 

North Atlantic

Israel

Europe

Vietnam

 

My computer is running on Windows XP.

 

Will I have any problems?

 

Thanks,

 

Hawker111

[+Fubar512]

Presently, It is possible, if you know what you're doing.

 

While it was once a simple install process in WinXP (back when SF2, SF2V, SF2E, and SF2I were first released), SF2NA and the followup patches sort of porked that process.  To really get the most out of those DX10 titles, you really need Windows Vista, 7, or 8. 

[hawker111]

If I install these sims they will run?

[+Wrench]

yes.

however...you may experience problems with NA

 

and they will only run in dx9, so you'll be losing out on a lot of visuals that use the dx10 shaders

[Snailman]

The only problematic is SF2 NA, which - by default - needs DirX10.  For running NA in Dirx9 you need to replace the SF2 NA EXE  program file with any of the non-NA exe (Europe, SF2 etc) and create the ini of the same name. Then it will create the mod folder.

Then you need the Dirx9 version of the IcelandNA map  and all will be fine.

 

Detailed intructions .. I can write later, im at work at the moment.   All in all possible and runs well.

 

EDIT, but yes as Wrench has wrote, it does not look very well (

 

 

On my older notebook it looked like this

 

 

Edited January 29, 2016 by Snailman