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IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946

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IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 cover
Developers
1C: Maddox Games
Publishers
2006-2013 Ubisoft
2013-2016 1C-777
2016-2018; 2022 1C Online Games
2018-2022 1C Entertainment
2022-present Fulqrum Publishing
Release dates
Windows December 15, 2006
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Vehicle combat
Vehicles Flight
Art styles Realistic
Themes Europe, Asia, World War II
Series IL-2 Sturmovik
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 on HowLongToBeat
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 on MobyGames
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 on Wikipedia
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IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles 2003
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 2007
Wings of Prey 2009
IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover 2011
IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad 2014
IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Moscow 2015
IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Blitz Edition 2017

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 includes the content from the following games:

General information

Daidalos Team Discussions on the Official 1C Company Forum - contains information on the development of the latest updates.
Mission4Today - one of the best IL-2 resources for mods, skins, campaigns, guides, updates and fixes.
SAS' Updates Thread - thread containing links to latest update packs.
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM v7 DRM
Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Intro cutscene can be disabled in game's launcher. Option is located in lower, left corner of a launcher.

Patches

Latest version is 4.15.1m. If you want to update follow this guide.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\conf.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15320/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\USER\<user-id>[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15320/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Added with 4.13.4 update on April 5, 2018.

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Native support since 4.12.2 (fullscreen modes). See Widescreen resolution for older solution.
Multi-monitor
Widescreen hack should work too.[1]
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Keys for changing FOV can be set in Input settings.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Can only be toggled on by selecting anisotropic from the Texture mipmap filter in the Video section of the external setup program.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Edit config file[2]
  1. Go to a folder where you've installed IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 and edit conf.ini with a text editor.
  2. Find the line width= and change it, entering the desired screen width (e.g. width=1920).
  3. Find the line height= and change it, entering the desired screen height (e.g. height=1080).
  4. Find the line SaveAspect= and make sure it's set to 0 (SaveAspect=0).
  5. Find the line ChangeScreenRes= and make sure it's set to 1 (ChangeScreenRes=1).
  6. Find the line EnableResize= and make sure it's set to 0 (EnableResize=0).
  7. Save the file and launch a game.

Notes

Main menu is still rendered in a letterbox mode.
Changing settings in-game or in game's launcher will make the game run in 4:3 again.
Not needed since patch 4.12.2.

Input

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.
External audio settings.
External audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
EAX 1-5[3]

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian

Network

External network settings.
External network settings.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
32
Online play
32

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP 21000
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

VR support

Devices State Notes
TrackIR
Supports: Yaw, Pitch or Yaw, Pitch, Roll, X, Y, Z (with 6DOF Mod).

Issues fixed

Game won't start

Delete the files conf.ini and bldconf.ini from the game's install directory[4]
This will cause the game to generate new configuration files to replace the ones deleted.
This issue may be caused by using the same installation of the game across different computers (i.e., a portable installation of the game), and incompatibilities arise from differing hardware configurations that prevent the game from launching.

Escape doesn't show pause menu

Enable the Escape key in conf.ini[5]
  1. Edit <path-to-game>\code.ini
  2. If not present already, add the following lines to the file:
[HotKey gui]
Escape=activate

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8 The game uses an OpenGL to Direct3D 8 wrapper.
OpenGL 1.1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1 GHz
AMD Athlon 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.1 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 2
ATI Radeon 7000
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9 compatible
Other 4X CD-ROM
Supported Video Cards: ATI Radeon 7000/8000/9000/X families; NVIDIA GeForce 256/2/3/4/FX/6 families; Matrox Parhelia; Intel GMA 925X/915P/915G chipsets


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/15320/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (15320) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References