Time to pull trigger on IL2 COD?

[d.burnette]

Thanks very much for the quick feedback gang! I will probably go ahead and pull the trigger on COD, may go ahead and get BOB2 as well just to compare - been a while, have found myself homebound for the next several days due to circumstances beyond my control, will at least have some time to check them out - figure can't have too many good WWII combat sims!

Thanks again,

[bw_wolverine]

Originally Posted by d.burnette

Thanks very much for the quick feedback gang! I will probably go ahead and pull the trigger on COD, may go ahead and get BOB2 as well just to compare - been a while, have found myself homebound for the next several days due to circumstances beyond my control, will at least have some time to check them out - figure can't have too many good WWII combat sims!

Thanks again,

You can't go wrong getting both Definitely give the CoD multiplayer a go and jump on the ATAG teamspeak if you play there. It's a different experience, surely, but can be incredibly rewarding.

[d.burnette]

Thanks again for the tips - I am indeed going to go ahead and get both, I got some time and figure what the heck...

Regarding startup procedure and assigning buttons, is it changed radically from IL2 1946? Would be nice to be able to use my IL2 1946 profile for my Cougar Hotas, with COD.

Really appreciate the feedback gang,

[d.burnette]

Hey guys, quick question:
I have purchased IL2 COD from Steam, it is showing in my library with an " install" button to click. I would prefer, this not install to my system drive, ie my program files on the C: drive, I want to install to a seperate hard drive.

I am not that familiar with Steam, I thought I might be given a download option and be able to save the install file to my hard drive - if I choose " install" from the Library screen in Steam, will it give me option to select where I want to install it to?

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by d.burnette

Hey guys, quick question:
I have purchased IL2 COD from Steam, it is showing in my library with an " install" button to click. I would prefer, this not install to my system drive, ie my program files on the C: drive, I want to install to a seperate hard drive.

I am not that familiar with Steam, I thought I might be given a download option and be able to save the install file to my hard drive - if I choose " install" from the Library screen in Steam, will it give me option to select where I want to install it to?

Steam will only install games where steam is installed. You will not be given a choice where to install it. The workaround for this is to install steam in the location you want the game to be. If all you have is IL2COD for games, steam will not require much additional space.

I know several people, like me for instance, that have 100's of gigs worth of steam games. When I want to put a steam game on my ssd, I'll install steam again in that location, but will only install the game from that install that I want. Therefore I can click one steam shortcut for the C: drive and have 95% of my games, or I can click the SSD short cut for steam and the only thing showing in my library is what I installed in that location. And yes, you can use the same login for steam (same steam account) for both locations on your pc.

[d.burnette]

Thank you very much for the quick response ATAG, that helps me out a bunch.
I took a look and Steam is installed on my E: partition, so all should be well- if I understand you correctly though, if I wanted to install it to any other partition or drive, all I would need to do is download and install Steam to that drive, and just run the steam executable from the that particular drive as well.

Good info to know, thanks again!

[ATAG_Bliss]

Yes Sir - That's correct!

Oh and if you like the online flying bit - make sure to hop on our team speak. Plenty of nice folks on there will get you up to speed in a jiffy with some good performance tweaks, tactics, teamwork, flight basics, and always good fun

Edit: Should've have known there's another way

[bw_wolverine]

You can install the game via steam and then move the entire directory to another drive by using the junction or mklink command. Essentially, Steam will think the game is on C: but you've actually moved all of the pertinent files to D: (or wherever). I've done this to put CloD on one of my SSDs.

There's a few tutorials on how to do this on the net. Search should find them pretty easily.

[d.burnette]

Originally Posted by bw_wolverine

You can install the game via steam and then move the entire directory to another drive by using the junction or mklink command. Essentially, Steam will think the game is on C: but you've actually moved all of the pertinent files to D: (or wherever). I've done this to put CloD on one of my SSDs.

There's a few tutorials on how to do this on the net. Search should find them pretty easily.

Thanks for the info, I may check that out! However after looking at my drives/partitions, it may be best anyways to go ahead and install it on my E: partition, still have lots of space on it and that is where I already have Steam installed.
Btw - is there any advantage at all, having it installed to a seperate hard drive? My E: partition is on the same physical drive that holds my system partition... if not, I will just go ahead and install to E:

Thanks,