[Dietz]

What is it ?where does it come from?
Recently after some error on my part I started getting CTD at 60 or sometimes 70%.I tried all the usual fixes...reloading 1.1 ,tring to put in STD from saved load etc but couldn't get it to work...So I went to a fresh install of Il-2 1946,fresh install of 1.1AAA ( I am getting frighteningly good at this!)& careful reinstall of everything from saved Mod folder.When I got to STD folder I caefully installed all the ini.s that I had aquired in the saved copy-new ones like ships,rockets & one called chief...Game worked until I installed chief which brought a 60% CTD result.So what does this ini do...I wonder where it came from...Should I try to track it down?
Any ideas from those who know?
ThanX!

[fabianfred]

The chief.ini is to do with moving vehicles/tanks/ships
If you have no mods involving these then you will not have a modded chiefs.ini in your MODS/STD folder, in which case the game will load the default one from the coded sfs files.
If you have the shippack2 or Armour pack installed, then you should have a modified chief.ini in your STD folder,
The game will CTD if you have the shippack or armourpack installed in the MODS folder....but do not have the correctly altered chief.ini....
.....or if you put the altered chief.ini into your STD folder...but have not yet added the shippack or armourpack to your MODS folder.

adding mods one at a time to see if there are problems is a good idea in most cases, but in this case could cause problems, when you are taking them from an old saved MODS folder....since they need to be installed together

[Dietz]

Fabianfred- if you are still around..several questions- If I try to put chief.ini back in as is I get CTD...so should I add text from Ship & Tanks installs etc. again to the chief.ini or will this "over writing" corrupt it more?If so should I start from Virgin 1.1 install STD ( that seems to have only and reload all the new objects including Ships , Tanks etc. & in doing so start with a fresh install of not only chief, & new( Ships,rockets)other ini files in the C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\MODS\STD\com\maddox\il2\objects Folder? :?:

[fabianfred]

If your chief ini has the entries for the shippack and armourpack then all three need to go into your MODS folder together or you'll CTD

[HolyGrail]

Please , what is this " armourpack mod " all about ?
what changes have been made to .ini files ?
What is it exactly do ?

Thanks

S! HG

[Dietz]

Got it!
Here's what happened ...I think...before last crash & reinstall I had used the Universal Objects installer which had a number of objects in one large download.When I reinstalled everything I had somehow not done something correctly & kept getting CTD because of the now malfunctioning Cheif.ini.Today I had a sort of brainwave & reinstalled the Universal objects instll & everythin works...at least I think so...

[fabianfred]

Please , what is this " armourpack mod " all about ?
what changes have been made to .ini files ?
What is it exactly do ?

Thanks

S! HG

like the shippack..it adds new tanks
Grant/Lee being one of them