17.09.2008, 07:25
Not clear from your post if you can't reinstall and get working your original il2 1946 or you're trying to get it to work with mods.
Anyway, try installing just your original 1946 disk and see if it will run. If it doesn't, do search of your hard drive for securom, if you find it big problems... I'll never buy anything made by sony again, as this crap is their idea. If you have this rootkit then it's pretty much wiping your hard drive and removing your dvd player as well, as it lives in there (called protection), to get rid of it. And IF it comes to that you may as well dump vista and return to xp and save some of the grief of bungling bill's latest efforts. But hopefully you won't have to do this.
If you can get your original 1946 disk installed and working, preferably in another folder instead of programs (as vista locks anything put in programs i.e. no software changes allowed and therefore no modding), to say c:/games/il2, then you just need to patch it carefully. 1946 is also v4.07, apologies if you know this but lots of people assume it's 4.08 and it's not. If you get that far, it's just reading this site carefully regarding mod installation, and you should be up and running.
Good Luck
Anyway, try installing just your original 1946 disk and see if it will run. If it doesn't, do search of your hard drive for securom, if you find it big problems... I'll never buy anything made by sony again, as this crap is their idea. If you have this rootkit then it's pretty much wiping your hard drive and removing your dvd player as well, as it lives in there (called protection), to get rid of it. And IF it comes to that you may as well dump vista and return to xp and save some of the grief of bungling bill's latest efforts. But hopefully you won't have to do this.
If you can get your original 1946 disk installed and working, preferably in another folder instead of programs (as vista locks anything put in programs i.e. no software changes allowed and therefore no modding), to say c:/games/il2, then you just need to patch it carefully. 1946 is also v4.07, apologies if you know this but lots of people assume it's 4.08 and it's not. If you get that far, it's just reading this site carefully regarding mod installation, and you should be up and running.
Good Luck