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Great concept. Could one make square or oblong units that could be conjoined to create towns and cities of varying sizes, possibly with irregular units on the edges to minimise the overall excessively square outline?

Just wish to add that the wide range of sounds really clarifies the depth of variety and realism that VonS' mod lends to FE. For such a small community, we are very lucky to have so much talent available to get the best out of this game. Those that are unaware of the level to which FE/FE2 has been taken are missing out.

Von S, thank you and have pity on my stupidity. I neglected to put the new soundlist.ini in the Flight folder, messing everything up and quite spectacularly. How do you stay so patient with the likes of me!?

Update: on further examination, I notice that many of the engine sounds described in the dataini's don't match the names of the soundfiles in my Sounds folder. So some renaming should sort that. The machine-gun sounds issue seems more complicated. Some of the various mg sound files in my sounds folder don't seem to be getting read at all.

It has come to my notice that many of the engine and machine-gun sounds in my modded FE2 install are no longer working. In the case of many of the engine sounds, many that are seem excessively quiet. There seem to be so many planes involved, I don't know where to begin and I don't seem to be able to restore missing machine-gun sounds, at all. Has anyone any ideas or experienced this?

SagginB's terrain looks so well and so realistic that I'll put up with the possibility of some of the targets being inappropriately-placed. However, in my first comparison, with Corneuilles (I think it was) airfield, the objects seemed to fit well enough. I need to investigate further.

Postscript: I did a small experiment, launching a groundstart in the same airfield in both Default ETO and ETO2015 terrains, each with SagginB's HR textures and there were far more and varied ground objects in the case of ETO2015. So, it seems the targets do show up, giving me the best of both worlds. Your 'UseSeasons' file is a handy one, indeed, Jel.

Jel, in my version of 1.60, I have installed SagginB's fine 512x512, 24bit terrains into the Seasons folder. In my ETO2015 (Jel2018) folder, i have placed your UseSeasons file (which I got in your AoE1.29 download), which gives me SagginB's terrain with Ray's ETO2015. My question is, will Ray's targets show up in this terrain?

The windscreen is absolutely essential. Without it, the cigarette might go out.

No, they are two entirely different sims. If you look through Lima's recent reviews of both games, you can see where he has explored the strengths and weaknesses of both.

Your screenshots are extraordinarily close to the real. BoBII truly is a simulation, in the broad sense, at least.

Seany, I don't think they were ever released on 'hardware'. I think only the original game was. Perhaps, a download manager would help-I think they maintain the integrity of partial downloads, even in the event of a broken link?

FE Gold and FE2 can both be downloaded from the Thirdwire website.

I've found the TypesIni.

Gentlemen, I have tried to install this mod, but I am stumped. Can anyone tell me where I might find this 'TypesIni'?

Thanks to seany for reviving this thread, as I completely missed it first time 'round. And of course thanks to Geezer and Stephen, but that has become a regular and very pleasant habit! I expect this game to become even more perilous now.

It's unfortunate that swastikas are unavailable, even through the use of mods. Rather irrational, hypocritical virtue-signalling as if this kind of censorship ranks as the equivalent of the efforts of the real human beings who risked their skins fighting against what this symbol represents. Is it surprising that such confused priorities should lead to other errant design decisions? When political correctness takes precedence over historical accuracy, it is inevitable that the latter will also be disregarded elsewhere.

DBW needs IL-2 1946 version 4.10. When it is installed on top of this version, it should work very well. BAT goes on top of version 4.12. I say this because you mentioned 4.13.4, and neither afore-mentioned pack will work right on the latter. There are other options for 4.12, the VPModpack and HSFX 7. These are easier to install than BAT, I would think-having said that, I don't have BAT myself. I actually use HSFX 7 for 4.12 and DBW for 4.10. There are more comprehensive packages, but I find these very stable and they load up very quickly. There is still a lot of content in both.

BoBII version 2.01 would be quite primitive and undeveloped. Your workaround of a Windows 7 secondary boot seems the best solution, to me.

Don, what are the advantages of Windows 10?

Rusty, I don't have Win 10, but I have heard of few people having difficulty with it and IL-2 1946. Other older games seem to have various incompatibilities. Perhaps you should look through 33Lima's recent reviews of BoBII. Not only are they very entertaining in themselves, but he describes how he installed a seperate Win 7 boot into his Win 10 pc at very little cost, enabling him to have the best of both worlds.

The lack of a skin only reinforces the beauty of the model itself. Perhaps we should just accept the original glitch as a cigarette scorch-mark? That black patch was the original problem, wasn't it-otherwise I'm too blind to see it?

I know this is an answer to a different question, but varied reports seem to indicate that, unsurprisingly, Windows 10 is not as welcoming to certain older flight sims as Windows 7. BoBII and EAW are prime examples. On the other hand, it is more likely to be conducive to newer ones. The TK ones seem to be in the neutral camp.

It's in the Download section here, under European Air War. If you're logged in and click on the 'View File' link above, it will take you directly to the afore-mentioned section.

The new 'graphics extender' mod, extending the view-distance so much further and improving the high-altitude views, should make the game more suitable for modern jets.