BATTLE OF BRITAIN II

Eichhörnchen · 08-20-14, 05:49 PM

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...

Oberon · 08-20-14, 06:12 PM

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.

Eichhörnchen · 08-20-14, 06:17 PM

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...

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

Aktungbby · 08-20-14, 06:27 PM

As Winston Churchill said on this date in 1940: "never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"... Oberon?

Oberon · 08-20-14, 06:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eichhornchen

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...

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.

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

Eichhörnchen · 08-21-14, 02:04 AM

Amen to that!

Eichhörnchen · 04-26-16, 12:10 AM

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.

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Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,399 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	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...

08-20-14, 06:27 PM	#4
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,017 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	As Winston Churchill said on this date in 1940: "never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"... Oberon? __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

04-26-16, 12:10 AM	#7
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,399 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	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. __________________

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08-20-14, 06:12 PM	#2
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	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.

08-20-14, 06:17 PM	#3
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,399 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	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... Just had a look and there's promising, boyo!

08-21-14, 02:04 AM	#6
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,399 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Amen to that!