IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946

[Ironman69]

NO-CD COMPATABILITY (flt-il2s.rar) for Win98SE USERS!!


Please ....those of you who created it for WinXP, please do one for all of us users who still use Win98SE. We are in dire straits. We need you to come thru for us!! Thanks in advance!!!

[chron]

Whats the reason to use Win98 instead of XP/2k/2k3?

[Ironman69]

Salute Chron! We ( and I ) have not had the will, or money, or oppertunity to upgrade to a newer O.S. I have had my computer for years...and has run ROCK solid for years. I loved it. And it's the only computer i have. I need somebody to create a no-dvd patch for me and those in similar situation as i am. We are desperate!

[TippeX]

oh come on, 9x is DEAD, microsoft do not support it...
and chances are the game doesn't support it either..
or will run pretty damn badly...

[Joe Forster/STA]

I LOVE(d) Windows 98, and had a very nicely maintained installation for about 3-4 years, and upgraded to Windows XP only about 2 years ago. Believe me, there is nothing in Windows 98 that Windows XP doesn't have but, vice versa, ohhh, the horror, starting with (the complete lack of) stability! (And I haven't even mentioned the shit Windows 9x drivers that manufacturers come up with for today's hardware that makes the situation even worse...!) For your sanity, I suggest that you upgrade.

[Ironman69]

This game DOES support Win98SE. AND it runs great so far! Please support us !

[TippeX]

chances are its just the setlasterror thing... shouldnt be too hard to fix...

[chron]

There is not SetLastError/GetLastError Api Call (at least not in hex editor )

[TippeX]

has to be some api issue.. if the crack wont work in 9x
actually, what happens using the crack in 9x?
crash or something or some weird messagebox?

chron -> you're just checking the exe or have you
actually unpacked it ? (its upx 'mangled' packed),
upx -d wont do it, but it can be unpacked and rebuilt
i havent got time atm to look though... (just had a quick
look)

[chron]

I cannot unpack it using upx.exe: file is modified/hacked

I never tried manual unpacking. I have been hanging on cracking simple cd checks for years

[TippeX]

must be very simple
u can unpack it in olly, trace from the start, scroll down a little and you'll see 2 calls to do the imports then at the end an add esp, some value
then jmp realeip
dump from there, rebuild imports.. sorted
/me wonders why the new (nothing like the real one) fairlight packed it..

[cdkiller]

/me wonders why the new (nothing like the real one) fairlight packed it..

prolly due the reason that exe is >30 MB unpacked. same approach as rld, they didn´t fully rebuild the exe.
if they want to "hide" anything they wouldn´t have used upx

[chron]

Originally Posted by TippeX

must be very simple
u can unpack it in olly, trace from the start, scroll down a little and you'll see 2 calls to do the imports then at the end an add esp, some value
then jmp realeip
dump from there, rebuild imports.. sorted
/me wonders why the new (nothing like the real one) fairlight packed it..

I never tried working with a debugger. I only used Olly vor Disasm if Win32dasm failed. But I think I'll go further in the next time to level up.

[TippeX]

they used a modded upx, to try and hide things, dump it and you'll see
it sure as hell isn't the old flt

[Ironman69]

here is the Kernel32.dll error we are getting:

IL2FB caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 017f:bff7b9a6.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=017f EIP=bff7b9a6 EFLGS=00000246
EBX=00be2790 SS=0187 ESP=021dfd04 EBP=021dfd24
ECX=01e80013 DS=0187 ESI=00a6c4a8 FS=45ef
EDX=00bec06c ES=0187 EDI=00a6c4a8 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
ff 76 04 e8 13 89 ff ff 5e c2 04 00 56 8b 74 24
Stack dump:
01e80013 00818313 00a6c4a8 00000080 00000000 00000074 01e80013 00bec06c 021dfdac 008182b4 00bec06c 00be2790 00000206 00000074 00000080 021dfdac