Simviation Forum - General enquiry about combat flight simulators

Jul 1^st, 2009 at 11:36pm

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I have looked into what combat flight simulators are out there and to be honest it's confusing what to go for.

I'm interested in;

MS Combat flight simulator 3: battle for Europe
Jane's USAF
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
Lock On: Air Combat simulation
Wings Over Europe
Pacific fighters

Having looked on Amazon.co.uk, the only one listed as working on windows Vista is 'Lock On:Air combat simulation'

Will any of the others work on Vista? I'm mainly thinking here about IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946

I've heard that for WW2 combat sims, IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 is the best but also that a lot of people have had trouble loading it due to some sort of error in the copy protection ? Is this still the case?

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Reply #1 - Jul 2^nd, 2009 at 12:05am

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IL2 will work fine on Vista 32, as will the expansion packs (Pacific Fighters and Forgotten Battles, a couple of "must gets" once you beat the first IL2...what a series!!!!)

I don't have Vista 64 so I don't know if it will work on that OS, but I do have Vista 32 and play all of the IL2 games just fine.

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Reply #2 - Jul 2^nd, 2009 at 1:35am

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......I believe the last version 'IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946' has everything rolled into one?

do you know if that runs on Vista 32 ?

Thanks

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Reply #3 - Jul 2^nd, 2009 at 2:12am

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someone else might know, I was just giving you the facts as I knew them, I play all three, all on seperate disks lol, and they work.

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Reply #4 - Jul 4^th, 2009 at 1:38am

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I play Il2 1946 (all of them in one) On windows 7, so it should work Grin

But Having loading troubles from mods Angry

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Reply #5 - Jul 6^th, 2009 at 3:33pm

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BigTruck wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2009 at 12:05am:

IL2 will work fine on Vista 32, as will the expansion packs (Pacific Fighters and Forgotten Battles, a couple of "must gets" once you beat the first IL2...what a series!!!!)

I don't have Vista 64 so I don't know if it will work on that OS, but I do have Vista 32 and play all of the IL2 games just fine.

yes they work fine.... I have vista x64 ultimate and I play those plus IL2 1946...plays very well indeed
but make sure you patch them!

Janes usaf doesn't seem to work on mine...no matter what I try try(compatibility etc.)

lock on works very well also...great game.

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Reply #6 - Jul 6^th, 2009 at 5:06pm

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Ok thanks.

Do you know which site you get the patch from? is it Ubisoft?

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Reply #7 - Jul 7^th, 2009 at 5:15am

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Wings over Europe i a good CFS! Isreal is better though just because it's newer but more mods are out for Europe version.

But i must suggest you try Falcon 4.0, not the greatest graphics but a pretty perfect job of simulating the Fighting Falcon Wink