[andqui]

I'm having an extremely hard time installing this game.
Here's what I'm doping:

1. installing 4.09b1m. That works fine. I have the new maps and objects, etc.

2. Install the new core dll's. Again, no problem.

3. Install the mod activator. This is where the trouble starts. It works fine, but all of a sudden most of the 4.09 stuff is gone. No maps, no new objects. Only the increased vis. distance.

4. Install the quickLaunchPack. No problems, but still no 4.09 goodies.

5. Run the english sound mod 0.93 into an empty folder, then take the files folder and add it into the game directory. No problems, sound i s just fine.

After this, i tried getting the 4.09 stuff back. There was no all.ini to control the maps in my directory, so i isntalled the AAA map pack to add it in. Now, in the game, Besarabia and Slovakia where available in the FMB, but when i tried to open them i got an error message saying "Section [MAP2D] not found in 'maps/Bessarabia/load.ini". I couldn't install the static ini because when i went to the STS mod folder, there was no folder called com in it's main directory.


Any Help?


thanks

[Forager]

Try here:
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When you get here: PRIMARY MOD, ACTIVATOR:
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read carefully, especially this:
***PLEASE READ***
IF YOU WANT NEW SOUNDS THEN INSTALL'ENG_SOUND_MOD' IF YOU JUST WANT TO INSTALL NEW MODS WITHOUT NEW SOUNDS THEN INSTALL THIS & PROCEED BELOW

Proceed carefully, use the auto installers and check after each addon to make sure all is going well.

[andqui]

I've seen that- and that's what i have been doing. The problem is that the mod activator reverts the game to 4.08, and i can't use the new objects or maps

[Forager]

please check my edit above, if it does not help we will look for something that will.

There is a solution, we just have to find it.

[andqui]

I'm going to try and do this:

add 4.09b1m
then, instead of the mod enabler, i'm going to fully install the eng sound mod and see if that helps any.

thanks for the help

[Forager]

9.3 works well for me.

[andqui]

nope.

The sound mod installs fine, sounds really cool, btw, but it's back to 4.08m.

On the load screen, it said 4.09b1m before, and now it says 4.08m. And the loadscreen is in russian, but the rest of the game is english.

[Forager]

Did you try to reinstall the 4.09b1m from this site?

I am off to find the loadscreen fix.

[andqui]

You're saying to reapply the 4.09b1m patch now? It's just that the fb_maps15.sfs file, the one with the new maps, is there. The two files that the sound mod and the 4.09b1m patch have in common are files.sfs and il2fb.exe. When one of those was replaced by the one in the soundmod, it reverted to 4.08, but didn't delete the 4.09 files. The same thing happenes with the mod activator. All the files are there, but the game thinks that it's 4.08 and the maps don't show up in the game interface. I still have the backups of the files.sfs and il2fb.exe from the 4.09b1m.

[Forager]

Could you rename the files in the il2 folder, put a 1 after them or something and insert your backups one at a time to see if it works?

I am not sure what else to do, there really needs to be an ABC install guide for each version of the soundmod.

[andqui]

After putting the backup back in- i can see that it's the files.sfs folder that's reverting the installation to 4.08. When the original goes back in, it says 4.09b1m on the english loadingscreen, but stops at 95% and that's it. I have to hold down the power button on the computer to get out of it.

But it isn't the only issue. The files.sfs MUST be paired with the il2fb.exe that came with the game. If i try the 4.9 files with the soundmod il2fb, then it crashes at 95%. If i try the soundmod files with the 4.9 il2fb.exe, everything's in russian, and it CTD's as soon as i choose an option from the main menu. Now if i put the 4.9 files with the right exe, it get standard 4.09b1, no soundmod. So it appears to be either or.

I'lll try redownloading the 4.09b1m and see if that ehelps. maybe it got corrupted.

[Forager]

I had a no mods il2 loaded and got the same 95% lock when adding mods.
I fixed it by opening the 4.09b1m patch from here and extracted it to a new folder then copied the files.sfs dated 12/27/07 into my il2 and it loaded, still have russian load screen but there is a fix for that somewhere.

Priority is to get the damned thing to load, right?

[Vpmedia]

problem with the 0.93 soundmod is that it includes the 4.08m files.sfs (which stores the version number) imho

[andqui]

vpmedia- after all this time, i noticed that the primary mod activator v5.2 is 4.08. So what's the point in adding it after you've installed 4.091bm?

[Forager]

I installed 0.93 and the problem appeared, then I copied the files.sfs from the patch and replaced the one in the game folder and then the game would launch.

This is with my previously unmodded install and load screen is in russian but 4.09b1m