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Revision as of 10:00, 15 October 2021

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 cover
Developers
1C: Maddox Games
Publishers
Ubisoft
Release dates
Windows December 15, 2006
Taxonomy
Series IL-2 Sturmovik
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 on MobyGames
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 on Wikipedia
IL-2 Sturmovik
IL-2 Sturmovik 2001
IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles 2003
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 2007
Wings of Prey 2009
IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover 2011
IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad 2014
IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Moscow 2015
IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Blitz Edition 2017

Key points

The game includes all the content from previous games and expansions.

General information

Daidalos Team Discussions on the Official 1C Company Forum - contains information on the development of the latest updates.
Mission4Today - one of the best IL-2 resources for mods, skins, campaigns, guides, updates and fixes.
SAS' Updates Thread - thread containing links to latest update packs.
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM v7 DRM
Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Intro cutscene can be disabled in game's launcher. Option is located in lower, left corner of a launcher.

Patches

Latest version is 4.14.1m. If you want to update follow this guide.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\conf.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15320/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\USER\<user-id>[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15320/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Added with 4.13.4 update on April 5, 2018.

Video

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Native support since 4.12.2 (fullscreen modes). See Widescreen resolution for older solution.
Multi-monitor
Widescreen hack should work too.[1]
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Keys for changing FOV can be set in Input settings.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
In-game setting is very weak. Can be improved through graphics card control panel.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Anti-aliasing can be forced in graphics card control panel.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Enabled by default. Cannot be disabled.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Edit config file[2]
  1. Go to a folder where you've installed IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 and edit conf.ini with a text editor.
  2. Find a line width= and change it, entering width of a screen (e.g. width=1920).
  3. Find a line height= and change it, entering height of a screen (e.g. height=1080).
  4. Find a line SaveAspect= and make sure it's set to 0 (SaveAspect=0).
  5. Find a line ChangeScreenRes= and make sure it's set to 1 (ChangeScreenRes=1).
  6. Find a line EnableResize= and make sure it's set to 0 (EnableResize=0).
  7. Save a file and launch a game.

Notes

Main menu is still rendered in a latterbox mode.
Changing settings in-game or in game's launcher will make the game run in 4:3, again.
Fix implemented on patch 4.12.2.

Input

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.
In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
32
Online play
32

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP 21000
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

VR support

Devices State Notes
TrackIR
Supports: Yaw, Pitch or Yaw, Pitch, Roll, X, Y, Z (with 6DOF Mod).

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1 GHz
AMD Athlon 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.1 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 2
ATI Radeon 7000
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References