The Original IL2 Sturmovik

Aviar · #1 10-20-2013, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Jumoschwanz

Everyone locked out padlock though because it could track through clouds and find ground targets too easy, so I went to the hat switch and am still using it today...

Not on MY server....

I've always been a big proponent of Padlock.

Nice to see you're still around, Jumo. We flew together quite a bit a good 10 years ago. Amazing how quickly time marches on. S!

Aviar

KMcWilliams · #2 10-24-2013, 01:45 AM

I do not believe it is a contradiction at all to strive for the best graphics settings possible.

As I recall, and many others will attest, ( I do not know where you were,) but back then, everyone shared every possible tweak that they could find.

And even with the GeForce 2 TI that I had at the time, it could always use a little more loving, so attemping the get the most out of it, " is " a part of the nostalgia too.

Jumoschwanz · #3 10-24-2013, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Aviar

We flew together quite a bit a good 10 years ago. Amazing how quickly time marches on. S!Aviar

Yes, it has been a dozen years since we started flying IL2.

Aviar had a dogfight server for the early years of IL2, it was closed pit and no outside views and no icons if my memory serves me.

I learned a lot while chasing his La-5fn around in Bf-109s.

MaxGunz · #4 10-25-2013, 12:34 AM

IL2 original ran to v1.04. Summer of 2002 1.03 changed stick settings meaning (and some FM?) and Oleg released his stick settings then immediately the FW-can't-turn noise level at The Zoo went way down.
1.04 came out IIRC in Sept 2002 and then they started on what became FB.

Handling problems often look like FM problems. The strength-based stick approach takes some getting used to and needs stick sensitivity tuning per plane and stick hardware to get the best back out. That can make enough difference same as trim to who wins or loses, we learned as it went.

Remember "Russian Lazers"?

Jumoschwanz · #5 10-25-2013, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by MaxGunz

IL2 original ran to v1.04. Summer of 2002

Wrong.

Last version of original IL2 was 1.2, which came out in the fall of 2002.

1.04 was out in spring of 2002. In 2003 we had Forgotten Battles.

I have all the old patches, readme notes an everything else if anyone ever needs them. I even have them all on the same cd discs I saved them on after downloading them via dial-up, which sometimes took a dozen hours!

All these files have dates of when they went on the cd or hard drives they are saved on.