18.09.2010, 09:43
Gents;
just to sort of wrap up my little saga with Windows 7. Essentially everything is sorted out. The one remaining issue was the requirement for the DVD in the drive. When I had upgraded to 4.09m on my old system (XP SP3) there was no longer a requirement for the DVD in the drive. When I upgraded to 4.09m on my new system (Win 7) and used the SecuROM etc as previously described it did not "convert" to a non-DVD version but it functioned. HOWEVER, after discussing this with my on-line colleagues, one of them sent me their fb.exe file which doesn't require the DVD. I renamed my fb.exe file to orig_fb.exe then placed the 'new' fb.exe into the IL2 folder and bingo! good to go. The game runs as before without the requirement for the DVD.
Just wanted to pass that on to anyone with a similar issue.
just to sort of wrap up my little saga with Windows 7. Essentially everything is sorted out. The one remaining issue was the requirement for the DVD in the drive. When I had upgraded to 4.09m on my old system (XP SP3) there was no longer a requirement for the DVD in the drive. When I upgraded to 4.09m on my new system (Win 7) and used the SecuROM etc as previously described it did not "convert" to a non-DVD version but it functioned. HOWEVER, after discussing this with my on-line colleagues, one of them sent me their fb.exe file which doesn't require the DVD. I renamed my fb.exe file to orig_fb.exe then placed the 'new' fb.exe into the IL2 folder and bingo! good to go. The game runs as before without the requirement for the DVD.
Just wanted to pass that on to anyone with a similar issue.