Hello IL2 Game Experts,

I own all the IL2 games (IL2, IL2FB, IL2FBACE, IL2FBACEPF, & PF). Is there a way to play each of these games seperately on the same computer. PF allows for this with IL2FBACE but not so with the others or so it seems.

Thanks,

Doug

At the moment I have IL2FBAEP and PF stand alone on one partition and IL2FBAEP PF merged on another partion. Its a piece of cake if you have more than one harddrive or have partitions on a single HD. For the PF merged I just made a copy of my IL2FBAEP, that way I kept all my skins.

Thanks ednew but it is IL2, IL2FB, & IL2FBACE that gets tricky. Anybody got this working along with IL2FBACEPF, & PF?

Doug

I have:

IL2 1.0
FB 1.22
FB/AEP 2.04
FB/AEP/PF 3.02bm
PF 3.02b


You can leave your IL2 Sturmovik installation alone. To install an earlier version of Sturmovik simply copy the folder from the CD to a new location on your drive and patch the new folder to the required version.

FB/AEP is a bit more difficult as the files are archived on the CD's. The procedure is:

Back up your Users, Missions & Skins folders, your conf.ini and any other files you've modified.

Uninstall FB/AEP/PF.

Install FB. Copy the entire game folder to another location and patch the copied version to the required FB version. Create a new desktop or start menu icon for this version & rename it appropriately.

Install AEP over the unpatched FB installation (it should find that install automatically). Copy the combined AEP/FB installation folder to a new location and patch the copied version to the required AEP version. Create a new desktop/start menu icon for this version & rename it appropriately.

Install PF over the unpatched FB/AEP installation.

If you want to have both 3.01 and 3.02b installed, copy your combined FB/AEP/PF installation to a new location. Patch one location to 3.01 and the other location to 3.01 + 3.02bm. Create a new desktop/start menu icon for the copied folder version and rename it appropriately.

Restore your backed up folders & files to your FB/AEP/PF installation. You may also want to copy applicable skins and missions from there to one of the earlier installs and you'll certainly want your key assignments, found in the Users/<pilot name> folder in the settings.ini file.


The key if you want to maintain previous versions is copy the old version to a new location before patching or upgrading the original install.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Tully__,

Tully... could you post this info on the essentials page. This is something I'd like to set up myself and I'm sure there are others also.
Maybe it's me... but lately the Find or Search on the forum page is not working properly.

Tully,

Thanks so much for your help. I understand the concept and appreciate your explanation.

What part of the world are you in?

Regards,

Doug

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Originally posted by PA32-300:
Tully,

Thanks so much for your help. I understand the concept and appreciate your explanation.

What part of the world are you in?

Regards,

Doug

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You're welcome

Melourne Australia.

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Originally posted by woofiedog:
Tully... could you post this info on the essentials page. This is something I'd like to set up myself and I'm sure there are others also.
Maybe it's me... but lately the Find or Search on the forum page is not working properly.

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I posted in the Essentials thread with a link back to here.... I hope that's sufficient .

Thank's Tully... that will work just fine.