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IL-2 Sturmovik

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IL-2 Sturmovik
IL-2 Sturmovik cover
Developers
1C: Maddox Games
Publishers
Ubisoft
Release dates
Windows November 18, 2001
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, World War II
Series IL-2 Sturmovik
IL-2 Sturmovik on MobyGames
IL-2 Sturmovik on Wikipedia
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Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

IL-2 Sturmovik is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person and third-person action and vehicle combat game in the IL-2 Sturmovik series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
Retail
DRM-free
Japan, and some UK re-releases
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.04

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\conf.ini[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Users[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

No save game cloud syncing information; you can edit this page to add it.

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Objects, Music, Voice
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
The official ubi.com servers have been shut down.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Use hyperlobby[citation needed]
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues unresolved

The installer fails to run

On modern Windows, the installer might fail to load properly. Its process can be seen in Task Manager, however it won't load and its window won't show up.
Manually copy over IL2 from the game disc to your storage device.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8 Through an OpenGL to Direct3D 8 wrapper.[3]
OpenGL
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer ubi.com

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Pentium II 400
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce2


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. 2.0 2.1 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).

References