I was playing the cranken campaign "dance macabre" flying for vichy France in Magadascar and then I was blocked in mission no.9. It was impossible to avoid a very strange 89% crash and needless to say the campaign that I was slowly finishing (It took me more that a month and I was 2 missions away from completing - I wish I had more time for IL-2!) was destroyed.
Three horrible hours passed.The problem was not only that I couldn't fix it, but my XTD file as I discovered later was damaged. So no forgotten countries anymore.So I couldn't even test the missions of the campaign. I had no clue was going on. I haven't passed such a stress for IL-2 for years.
Slowly but steadily, I verified that the problem was in the #DBW folder but not in the usual STD, XTD & MAPMODS folders. Fixing up the forgotten countries was relatively easy just changing the XTD folder with the original one. But it took me almost 3 hours to understand why some missions of the campaign were not loading!
Well...I discovered one of the strangest bugs I ever encountered in IL-2...all of you that you have installed this nice Shordfish Mk.II, try to play some missions where the Mk.I is involved and you'll experience a crash! It took me so long 'cause by the time I started the campaign, I haven't installed the Mk.II version yet so I could have never imagined. It's a pity because the mod is nice. Having a biplane with rockets is an curious combination.
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Topic: Swordfish Mk.II (problem solved) (Read 7336 times)