Hello

I want to install EAW on Win7. Is there a guide for getting the most of this game? Like an super mod etc?

Many thanks,
G

Search for 1.28 and start there and Look at the bottom of any posts by MrJelly for links to downloads

Hello,

Copy EAW to your computer from your disc, don't install it. Then patch it to eaw 1.28e. Next install (actually unpack) Jelly's direct set picker. Then install (unpack) his converted campaigns. Apply the new planes folder, and fix 12.

S!

BVM

Many thanks for the replies.

Am I correct in thinking that if you want to apply mods it will go on top of 1.28? Does 1.28 offer Hi-Res planes and terrain and included additional planes and theatres out of the box so to speak? If not can someone point me to where I will find these?

I am mainly interested in offline..

Thanks,
Gian

Hi Gians.

If you can run EAW in D3D mode, then you can have 515x512 24bit colour skins. If you can only run Glide you'll still have MS models, but you'll be limited to 8bit colour 256x256. The difference in colours is not that great, but you'll certainly notice the difference between 512 nd 256 textures. We need to do an update to the Glide code to allow 512 textures to be used, but that's sometime in the future, at the moment. Apart from those differences, 1.28e will give you a great gameplay experience. The basic 1.28e setup gives you loads to play with, and then there are loads of alternative aircraft you can load.

Hello Gians,

EAW 1.28e "out of the box" gives you the European Theatre west, and also the east (Russia). If you download Jelly's Direct Set Picker and then download and unpack his converted add ons, you can have the Pacific Theatre and Desert Theatre as well as a few others all at this click of a mouse. Like Spanish Air War for instance (1937-39).

S!

BVM

The main thing with Win 7 is the User Account Control setting which must be set to off.
Otherwise when eaw.exe tries to save the settings to the "eaw.ini" file the User Account Control will not allow it and you get a CTD.

Jel

Thank you all for you kind help and pointers. I got the game to work,,,sort of in Win 7 and now tried it in WinXP which I find better, int terms of the mouse responsiveness in the GUI..

I do have a problem in both OS's though, I don't have any control of the plane. Keyboard, mouse and joystick won't work.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
G

You should be able to change the settings in the eaw.ini file from the configuration page in game.



You would not be able to run the old 1.2 version at all on your Win7 PC. It would certainly CTD with the 7217 error because more modern graphic card/driver combinations no longer support 8 bit. The mouse stuttering is due to the 7217 workaround in the 1.28 series, and it does not happen if you use the d3d windower.

Jel

Many thanks Mr.Jelly

I got the controls to work with some ini reference I found somewhere. I need to tweak it more as my snap views on my joystick is giving me some hassle. Sure I will get it sorted eventually.

Just a quick confirmation. everytime I clicked on exit mission the game crashed and my pc actually rebooted once. I did manage to find a fix/hotfix eaw.exe file for 1.28 from another post here but not from you hosting site. That solved it so far.

On the different theatres am I correct in thinking that the EOT is the only one with full pilot career mode.

Also where can I find the hi res textures for planes and landscape?

Thanks again,
G

Lots of Skins here:

http://www.sandbagger.uk.com/ironmike.html

Terrains here:

http://www.sandbagger.uk.com/sagginbadd.html

As far as i know you can fly career missions in all scenarios, not just in ETO!

Cheers

Many thanks for the prompt responses. I loaded the DAK theatre and when I clicked on the Pilot Career the coutry flags it still showed Battle of Britain for example. I didn't continue clicking next as I thought that it is only single missions based in the said theatre.

Here is my installation just for reference:

EAW dir copied from CD
Extracted the following files into this directory:
Files
Planes
ETO
Folders
Downloaded all available theatres from same dropbox location
Applied this https://rapidshare.com/files/1365208221/EAW1.28eFix16.zip

Thanks,
G

P.S Any Eastern Front theatres.

P.S.S Sorry for all the questions.

Hi,

the only somewhat working pure east front setup at the moment are the two east front plane sets comming with ETO_01.

To use them, go to the configuration screen and select "Planeset3" (early) or "Planeset4" (late east front).

Since we dont have a real east front worldsetup a late war frontline setup(east front close to Berlin) get used.

If you want to have some more east front fun, give the very good Finnish Airwar a go. The FAW world is outstanding, with help of the FAW manager you can play many historical correct misssion.

Greetings,

Knegel

Very helpful thread!

Got me up and flying in the time it took to download and install.

Thanks all!!

Cheers

Gians,
dont forget the 'sounds' folder for ETO_01.


AO

Hi AngelOff

Do I just dump these files into the EAW128e/sounds folder?

Sorry new to this sort of thing

Also I noticed a heap of cockpit makings stuff, are there any cockpits to replace the originals in a higher rez?

Thanks in advance cheers!