[agracier]

... "wasted your precious hours" 8 minutes after your first post is rather uncalled for, but that's just my 2 cents.

I must waste a lot of my time therefor, since my (modded to the max) game takes around 5 minutes to just boot up ... ha ha.

Seriously though - patience. It took me more than a month to figure out how to make a simple mission in the FMB, about double the same for skinning and afterwards for map making. This is a most rewarding game if you take the trouble to do things properly.

If you have just bought a CD of the game and installed it you probably have version 4.07

This you must first upgrade to version 4.08 and afterwards to version 4.09 using 2 separate patches/upgrades. One for upgrading 4.07 to version 4.08

This link I don't have handy, but it ca found on many different sites. Just Google for something like Il-2 patch/Sturmovik patch/Sturmovik 4.08 or the likes ...

And then you need to do another far larger but very exciting and varied content upgrade from 4.08 to version 4/09

This last can be downloaded here at the forum using Unified Installer files available for download here:

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