[Conte Zero]

Hello, I made it at last. I went through the whole installation process:

- Sturmo vanilla
- patch 4.08
- patch 4.09
- UltraPack 2.1

Then I tested it, and several things surprised me:

1 - in full editor, I have about half the maps I was used to see in the AAA Soundmod
2 - looks like there are no new skins... am I right? I see the usual stock skins
3 - the sounds sound very stock too, compared to AAA terrific engine and weapons sounds

Differences: I am testing on my Dell notebook. On this machine, the startup screen says version 4.09m. On my desktop computer when I launch Sturmo I see version 4.09b1m. Why? (just curious)

So, the UP looks just too ordinary to me. Where am I doing wrong? I don't want to look polemic of course, I am really wondering since the UP should be a HUGE step beyond the AAA Soundmod, right?

Thank you gents, counting on your patience and know-how

Cz

[George Formby]

Brother, I think you missed something on the DL or some kinda gremlin, you should have a buttload of maps and planes!!!

[Conte Zero]

Brother, I think you missed something on the DL or some kinda gremlin, you should have a buttload of maps and planes!!!

I have a major suspect now

WHY are there different download links on those pages? Maybe I'm a noob (but I am quite used to tweak, map,use editors, etc)

On a page I found THREE links to UP 201 (.exe, data1.cab, data 2.cab) for a total of 722 Mb

But then I also have seen a torrent, wich I am downloading right now, and that's a 4GB beast!!

I have the feeling that tutorial may be confuding, I thought the first download was UP201, or latest version, and installed it

WHAT are those 4GB I am downloading now? Did I completely screw my Sturmo installation at this point? The game runs smooth, but very stock, and nothing works, no cloud mod, nor the Plutonium mod, NOTHING....

Frustrated, sorry guys.

[George Formby]

its better to use the torrent

[*Steppenwolf*]

Do you see the UP 2.1 load screen? It should be of a FW190 and a Spitfire, and there should be a dog tag and a small Zuti mod emblem. If your not seeing that screen I'd say there's something wrong. I'm not sure, but I think the difference between your two 4.09's is that one is beta and UI related. When I played UP2.1 for the first time I noticed a huge difference, both in smoothness and new planes. In QMB all the added planes will have symbols next to them like "~" or "*" to denote them as new planes or tweaked flight models. A lot of this should be covered over at UP though. Good luck.

[Conte Zero]

its better to use the torrent

yes but I am extremely confused now... the first 3 parts mentioned in Pappy's guide seem to be something different from the gigantic torrent content... :?:

Steppenwolf, no, no new screens at all. Same usual Sturmo screen at startup... nevermind the difference between my installations, that was just a curiosity. 4.09b1m runs on my desktop, with the "old" AAA soundmod, and works just perfect. forget it :mrgreen:

Now I have to focus on this UP thing on my notebook. I also find it difficult to explain things since english is not my first language, sorry.

Waiting for the torrent to finish, 30 minutes left.

[Conte Zero]

I also have a broken JSGME icon on my desktop (lower left corner), and I dunno why. See attached thumbnail, it shows what the first download grabbed from the web (the open folder)

[George Formby]

did you use the 4.09m patch and not the 4.09beta from AAA, a lot of guys made that mistake in the past, not trying to insult no intellegence, just trying to get ya fixed mate
This is the opening screen ya should be seeing

[Apollo_13]

If you have the updater icon,run it and UP 2.01 should update your game and fix it
If you do not have the updater ,then there is something seriously wrong
there are links for those to update from previous versions of UP,you need the full UP 2.01

The torrent download for UP 2.01 is the best way to get the full package

At any time once installed correctly,
if you have trouble,you just run the Ultrapack updater and it renews your game to UP 2.01 and any current fixes,
always back your MODS up as the updater will delete all and renew game to just UP 2.01

Once you get your torrent downloaded and UP installed,I am sure you will be more than happy with it :wink:

[KG64_Cnopicilin]

Isn't the 2.01 a patch for the 2.0? At least it was when I downloaded UP.

[Conte Zero]

Ok, things got clear now.

But somehow that page is confusing; I have read it several times, and there may be misunderstandings, like in my case. Maybe not for english players, but people from other countries may have problems.

I was sure the 3 parts I downloaded were the whole thing, updated. Wrong. That was the 201 update, but BEFORE that I should have downloaded the huge 4gb torrent. Wich I did, (after :mrgreen: )

I brutally installed UP 2.0 AFTER installing the 2.01 patch, thinking "who cares, I still can nuclearize everything and restart from scratch". But it worked. UP 2.0 ran perfect, then I re-updated it to 2.01

Tons of maps, tons of new birds, cool tracers... the only thing I don't like too much are sounds: to me the AAA soundmod is very hard to beat, state of the art

Now I have this Tiger33Mod for sounds, I have a long readme to read then I'll give it a try. And then I would like to install the Plutonium suite and the fire&smoke by socorrista, after that I think my Sturmo should look and work the way I mean

Thank you all. I also have noticed the UP at this point also contains the HSFX, is that correct??

P.S. 1 ) great value, most of the new aircraft mods are alrady included in UP (mig17, various F86, etc) that is great

P.S. 2) Do you think the opening screen of UP is a genuine ingame frame, or is it retouched? I have very realistic graphics, but the clouds and the landscape in that screen are terrific...

[Fireskull]

Ok, things got clear now.

But somehow that page is confusing; I have read it several times, and there may be misunderstandings, like in my case. Maybe not for english players, but people from other countries may have problems.

I was sure the 3 parts I downloaded were the whole thing, updated. Wrong. That was the 201 update, but BEFORE that I should have downloaded the huge 4gb torrent. Wich I did, (after :mrgreen: )

I brutally installed UP 2.0 AFTER installing the 2.01 patch, thinking "who cares, I still can nuclearize everything and restart from scratch". But it worked. UP 2.0 ran perfect, then I re-updated it to 2.01

Tons of maps, tons of new birds, cool tracers... the only thing I don't like too much are sounds: to me the AAA soundmod is very hard to beat, state of the art

Now I have this Tiger33Mod for sounds, I have a long readme to read then I'll give it a try. And then I would like to install the Plutonium suite and the fire&smoke by socorrista, after that I think my Sturmo should look and work the way I mean

Thank you all. I also have noticed the UP at this point also contains the HSFX, is that correct??

P.S. 1 ) great value, most of the new aircraft mods are alrady included in UP (mig17, various F86, etc) that is great

P.S. 2) Do you think the opening screen of UP is a genuine ingame frame, or is it retouched? I have very realistic graphics, but the clouds and the landscape in that screen are terrific...

Conte Zero,

Fanastic! You will have a load of fun!

The aircraft in the opening screen image are from IL-2. The land is probably Cannon's English Channel map (included in UP), but I'll leave it to someone else to confirm or rebut.


Fireskull

[WhoDatNotSayin]

I think the map in the screenshot is probably Slovakia, from the 4.09m patch.

Conte Zero, f you haven't done it already, I'd run the UltraPack Update and Restore application. It'll take a bit of time, but it should find any remaining problems, and get it totally up-to-date.

[George Formby]

Tons of maps, tons of new birds, cool tracers... the only thing I don't like too much are sounds: to me the AAA soundmod is very hard to beat, state of the art

I am with ya on that, I have my own sound set up which is like a bastard set of ALL the other sound mods in IL2. Glad ya got it figured out!!

[Conte Zero]

Everything works, I have to understand many things about the structure and mod activators, right now I still move carefully.
So far, the only bug is a blueish shade on aircrafts body, expecially the camo skinned ones, and it happens when I shoot. It is supposed to be the gun flash i suppose, but the flashes on the plane are bitween light blue and violet, just a shade, but its annoying

all comments and suggestions have been really appreciated, thank you again