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Junior Member
Help Required with IL-2 1946/Windows 7
Hi. Have been hoping to re-aquant myself with IL-2 1946 following a 2/3 year absence. New PC last year with Windows 7. I have read the sticky post with regards to Windows 7 problems. Most appear to be in regard to problems trying to instal IL1946.
In my own case the installation appeared to have gone well. Usual install box, grren background, changing picture in top left hand side and percentage counter bottom left. Instal through to 100%, message confirmed completion. DX installed. Stt-up has finished instal. I cannot however run the game. I click the dektop icon and the little disc aoppears on the screen spinning and the nothing.
The game file seems well populated: with 91 Folders/Files
Any thoughts
Cheers.
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Senior Member
If you have a 64 bit Win7 and an International version of IL-2 you need to update SecuROM DRM to the 64 bit version How-to is in the Win7 FIX sticky in the forum index.
The spinning disk is SecuROM trying to initialize which will fail... No error or nothing
It's a good idea to make a c:/Games/ folder and move/copy your /IL-2 Sturmovik 1946/ into there. Make a new shortcut to il2fb.exe under c:/Games/ to start the game if needed. This will prevent a LONG list of problems that Win7 can cause.