Does any fly CFS2 in this forum?

#3247796 - 03/27/11 02:02 AM Re: Does any fly CFS2 in this forum? [Re: Dornil]
33lima Junior Member Registered: 09/16/10 Posts: 59	You can still get the CFS2 addons here, at very reasonable proces, just search for CFS2. They are limited to a given theme eg Dambusters but what they do, they do quite well: http://www.justflight.com/flightsimboxedaddons.asp The D-Day addon for CFS THREE mentioned above was excellent, it made CFS3 closer than anything else to what it should have been from the start, but it won't install properly on my Vista PC. The CFS3 Mosquito Combat addon is also very good and works with my Vista install, as do the excellent Firepower and Memphis Belle addons (all are also available from Just Flight). But the ultimate WW2 addon for CFS3 is now the ETO expansion, details here: http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/cfs-i-ii-iii/cfs3-eto-expansion-17765.html It involves very large downloads of each version (you can't just install the most recent one) but it is VERY worthwhile. The install procedure is rather fiddly but the latest instructions are extremely good and are easy to follow, and the result is a sim transformed WAY beyond any other CFS3 addon (except for some of the features of OFF - something with the combined features of OFF and ETO expansion would be perfect!). For anyone not much interested in the Eastern Front or who prefer CFS2's Pacific Theatre to the very limited one of Pacific Fighters, CFS3+ETO Expansion is surely the premier WW2 air combat simulator. It doesn't do the Battle of Britain as well as BoB1/BoB2 of course but for its great graphics and sheer scope, including a truly fantastic array of flyable planes, it is really not to be missed. Edited by 33lima (03/27/11 02:03 AM)
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Don't think I have had any conflicts with my CFS2 and CFS3 addons. Firepower and D-Day I think might not mix, so I had used separate installs for those when I had XP. Think the prob with D-Day now is something to do with the different place Vista puts CFS3's "User" files, the ones that don't go into the main Prog Files/MS games/CFS3 folder. There is probably a workaround and I would still love to be able to fly D-Day's RAF campaigns even with the excellent CFS3 ETO expansion but I have not cracked that yet.

Firepower's B17F conflicted with Memphis Belle's B17F but Just Flight released a patch to the latter which meant they could co-exist. I now have one install of CFS3+ ETO Expansion and one with Firepower + Memphis Belle + Mosquito Combat. My CFS2 install (stock at the moment apart from a few addon planes and campaigns) has Dambusters, Double Trouble (P51+FW190), Mosquito Combat, Combat Aces (WW1), Mig-v-Sabre, Vietnam Air War (planning to install Pearl Harbour again soon, too, also a Japanese-made payware Val campaign I got a while back).