BATTLE OF BRITAIN II
 

Pleeeease! Can someone help me keep this thing aloft in Windows 8?

I know I can't expect it to work, but having played practically all the other combat flight sims over the years this is the one I would grab in a fire (if it would only STAY working) and that includes Wings of Prey and all my Ubisoft stuff.

When it's running it looks and plays beautifully, with everything maxed. Then PHWWWWFFT! "Windows Has Stopped Working" (and why would I tell Microsoft about this problem: they're not remotely interested in flight simulation since dumping fsx). It usually falls off a cliff as soon as I get in amongst the enemy bomber fleets so something's overloading, no?

I will try installing on compatibility settings but I know what to expect. Any other suggestions of a not too-complicated nature would be welcomed...:/\\!!

Is this vanilla BOBII or BOBII with the BDG patches?

I don't use Win8, so I can only point to what I've googled:

http://bobgamehub.blogspot.co.uk/201...windows-8.html

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph..._and_Windows_8

Hope something there helps.

Wow! That was quick, Oberon. It's the basic game, pure and simple. I'll have a look at those links now; just wanted to say thanks...:yeah:

Just had a look and there's promising, boyo!

Excellent news, I do hope you get it working, despite the graphical fidelity of Cliffs of Dover, there is so much more atmosphere and awe in BOBII that I too find myself drawn back into it again and again.
There's something about seeing a sky full of bombers and escorts in a manner which I haven't seen any other combat flight sim do before or ever again.
The campaign, the radio chatter, it is beautiful and I just wish that CloD could have captured a bit of that magic, but the only thing that CloD replicated of the original Battle of Britain game was the bugs and crashes to desktop. :03:

Hope it all goes well and you're up over Hellfire corner soon. :salute:

Amen to that!

Success...
 

I decided to get a pre-owned reconditioned gaming desktop with XP installed to play all my stuff, but I was praying all the while that it would play this. I was told more recently that the problem was likely to be my graphics card and it seems that was correct, because I am now finally enjoying this still truly amazing combat flight sim to the full. Just sit in the cockpit of the Me109-E and tell me it isn't the BEST 3-D 109 cockpit you ever saw.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/pict...pictureid=7972

BOBII is just brilliant when it comes to campaign, atmosphere and AI.
afaik only Falcon 4.0 matches the quality when it comes to those 3 points.

I popped it in frequently back in the day just to hop into a Hurri (I just love that workhorse) Get up in the sky, go to the area guided by the radar to see Goering doesn't dissapoint and has send a bunch of pencils escorted by 109 and let's not forget the jaw dropping sight of the Blitz :yep:

I grew up in Kent and spent all my holiday time as a kid out in the fields right below where all this took place. I often looked up in the summers and tried to imagine the dense curly vapour trails my mum described, as the combats were furiously but often noiselessly played out thousands of feet above.

Falcon 4.0 went onto my new rig too, although this plays well on my old one with absolutely no glitches or crashes; it's a solid game, that.

I lost my copy years ago, reading this thread makes me think it's time to start having a look on Ebay or Amazon :D

You can buy a digital copy from Matrix Games!

I'll get some more screenshots on here, now that I'm airborne at last...

I don't want to hijack this thread. However, for all that are interested in a BOB experience: Have a look at Aircombatgroup.co.uk. I'm part of that group, which currently consists of 7 Luftwaffe and 7 RAF squadrons that battle each other every Sunday in a multiplayer campaign using IL-2 Cliffs of Dover.

We are more about immersion and historical reenactment rather then competition.

Here's a video that shows a Sunday mission:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhe-G4rDLFE

OK I take back what I said about BoB's cockpits... that video is awesome, so real. I haven't played Cliffs of Dover yet as I recall you have to play or activate online, and my gaming has to be offline. I guess I was thinking of Wings of Prey with my view that BoBII is still the best; that particular sim came as a big disappointment to me, with its arcade style and 'muddy' cockpit views.

CoD is clearly way ahead of the IL-2 sims... setting up 109-Es against Hurricanes in '1946' just didn't capture the right feel, and your video makes me envious.

And don't worry that you're hi-jacking this thread... it served its purpose already and I'm quite happy for it to become a Battle of Britain thread :)

You do know the ''1946'' was just part of the title right? It didn't restrict you in the year 1946 as you had free reign regarding the date in the mission editor to pick any day/month/year and even the time to recreate historical missions if you wished or grab them online from people that shared them.