[Mod Pack] IL-2 Enhanced Version 2.2 (Updated 8/30/24)

[creamersdream]

What mods got updated?

[Mike2945]

Thought it was time to get rid of my random collection of mods and repalce them with this comprehensive pack.  However having installed the mod followed by the 2 patches with JGSME as instructed, the game won't load.  Gets no further than the opening IL2 logo, before the screen freezes and I get the 'not responding' message.  I've checked the game integrity  - 100% - deleted all other mods, but still no joy.  I thern removed the Mod Pack and 2 patches and the game loaded as normal.  

I'd welcome any thoughts and suggestions!

Mike

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

On 8/30/2024 at 3:53 PM, JMax said:

Thanks for this update!! Great work.

 

My installation in JSGME seemed to have worked perfectly...is there an obvious way to check if the mods are working in-game? Maybe an obvious in-game graphic I can see  that confirms it? Thanks again for the game mod.

Go for a flight on the Rheinland map (summer) and take in the new textures and river color.

On 9/1/2024 at 12:38 PM, creamersdream said:

What mods got updated?

Mostly the various gunnery and flak mods by Stonehouse, effects by JSO Flyer, and the sun size correction one. 

On 9/1/2024 at 3:09 PM, Mike2945 said:

Thought it was time to get rid of my random collection of mods and repalce them with this comprehensive pack.  However having installed the mod followed by the 2 patches with JGSME as instructed, the game won't load.  Gets no further than the opening IL2 logo, before the screen freezes and I get the 'not responding' message.  I've checked the game integrity  - 100% - deleted all other mods, but still no joy.  I thern removed the Mod Pack and 2 patches and the game loaded as normal.  

I'd welcome any thoughts and suggestions!

Mike

There's probably something left over causing issues. JSGME isn't perfect. I would recommend a clean install--or at least deleting the updates folder and startup.cfg file. Pack is working flawlessly for me. 

[BBAS_Tiki_Joe]

Hi, Thanks for the mod. I've been using this mod for our squadrons PWCG campaign, I've got one issue though, we are flying p40's during stalingrad and its march and snow is on the ground, but anything from 11am to 5pm is absolutely horrid brightness wise. IDK if its a VR thing, (All 9 of us fly in vr) or what. But when we fly durring that time everything is extremely bright, the ground looks like an atomic bomb has gone off and is impossible to see. We love everything else, the twilight missions, the tracers and Flak and sound etc, but I'm trying to figure out how to get rid of this issue. Is there anything I can change in the files to fix this. Thanks and best regards!

[Skibidi_1-]

How do you download, I don't understand the steps, the tutorials on YouTube suck

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

15 hours ago, Skibidi_1- said:

How do you download, I don't understand the steps, the tutorials on YouTube suck

We would love to help you if you took the attitude and parked it--there's no place for that here when talking about free mods and this free collection of mods aka "mod pack."

 

Steps to install are in the initial post. Pretty basic...but I will reiterate:

 

1. Download and install jsgme to main game folder.

2. Switch mods on in the launcher.

3. Place mods and patches in "MODS" folder in IL-2 GB main game folder.

4. Activate main pack in the proper order (lower versions first) with the JSGME program--allow overwriting.

5. Activate patches in correct order in same manner.

 

And that's basically it...

Edited December 31, 2024 by 356thFS_Drewm3i-VR

[Markhans]

is folder ‘mod’in 'E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\data' or'E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

On 1/23/2025 at 7:49 PM, Markhans said:

is folder ‘mod’in 'E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\data' or'E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad

The latter.

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

If anyone was wondering, I am updating this pack with some updated mod versions--currently testing and all seems stable so should upload soon.

[Stonehouse]

1 hour ago, 356thFS_Drewm3i-VR said:

If anyone was wondering, I am updating this pack with some updated mod versions--currently testing and all seems stable so should upload soon.

FYI there is an update to AI Gunnery in the works at present. No eta sorry as it depends on how much free time I have.

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

9 hours ago, Stonehouse said:

FYI there is an update to AI Gunnery in the works at present. No eta sorry as it depends on how much free time I have.

No problem--I will wait on it.

[FodderMonkey]

16 hours ago, 356thFS_Drewm3i-VR said:

If anyone was wondering, I am updating this pack with some updated mod versions--currently testing and all seems stable so should upload soon.

Not sure if it's possible, but would be nice to have some version of "IL2 Extended" available as part of this (unlocks aircraft and configurations in career).  The old mod is gone from the site and about two versions out of date.  Thanks!

[JMax]

19 hours ago, 356thFS_Drewm3i-VR said:

If anyone was wondering, I am updating this pack with some updated mod versions--currently testing and all seems stable so should upload soon.

Great modpack. Thanks for updating it! 😎

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

4 hours ago, FodderMonkey said:

Not sure if it's possible, but would be nice to have some version of "IL2 Extended" available as part of this (unlocks aircraft and configurations in career).  The old mod is gone from the site and about two versions out of date.  Thanks!

I will see if I can find it. Not sure if it would still work though. I agree that locked loadouts are annoying--especially things like fuel quantity.

[creamersdream]

When will you update? Cant play the game without it.

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

On 2/28/2025 at 8:42 PM, creamersdream said:

When will you update? Cant play the game without it.

It still works from my testing, at least for the planes/scenarios I have tried. I'm just waiting on Stonehouse to update the AI gunnery/AAA mod.

[Stonehouse]

5 hours ago, 356thFS_Drewm3i-VR said:

Stonehouse to update the AI gunnery/AAA mod

Have a family health issue at present so won't be about as much as normal but AAA mod is ok as is (although just a heads-up that there is a new warship/naval mod way off in the pipeline that will trigger an update eventually when Kraut1 and I have time to finalise it) and I've uploaded a beta of the new version of AI Gunnery in the last few hours for people to try out and give feedback on. So, it is closer to full release at least but not there yet.

[Vishnu]

Okay......I always used separate mods to to IL2, but this mod KICKS ASS!  I also noticed you used a couple of my cockpit photos, I converted to DDS.  They look awesome!   I'm glad you used them.

 

I did notice one thing, though.  It seems the cockpit dials in some of the 109's don't look white/lit up.    I took a screenshot or two, but I can't seem to find them.  I wonder if other people have had this problem.   One more thing,   I noticed sometimes when a plane is on fire and you go to look at from 3rd person, there is no smoke or fire.  You can hear it though.

 

Vish

 

Edited April 2 by Vishnu

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

On 4/1/2025 at 8:03 PM, Vishnu said:

Okay......I always used separate mods to to IL2, but this mod KICKS ASS!  I also noticed you used a couple of my cockpit photos, I converted to DDS.  They look awesome!   I'm glad you used them.

 

I did notice one thing, though.  It seems the cockpit dials in some of the 109's don't look white/lit up.    I took a screenshot or two, but I can't seem to find them.  I wonder if other people have had this problem.   One more thing,   I noticed sometimes when a plane is on fire and you go to look at from 3rd person, there is no smoke or fire.  You can hear it though.

 

Vish

 

Cheers mate and glad you like it!

 

Get me a screen shot of the 109 dials and someone will look at it. It may be an issue with the reticle mod?

 

Others have reported that with the effects (seems to be a small bug with the effects mod by JSOFlyer).

[Vishnu]

Totally weird bug, I think, but I hear jet engine noises periodically after downloading this mod.  Anybody else getting that?   I don't own anything relating to that, and I wonder how a sound file could have got corrupted with such a odd sound.   

 

[ST_Catchov]

29 minutes ago, Vishnu said:

I hear jet engine noises periodically after downloading this mod

 

Like a mosquito in the room, this is a form of torture.

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

2 hours ago, Vishnu said:

Totally weird bug, I think, but I hear jet engine noises periodically after downloading this mod.  Anybody else getting that?   I don't own anything relating to that, and I wonder how a sound file could have got corrupted with such a odd sound.   

 

I don't think so. Besides radio calls, there are no sounds in this mod. 

[Vishnu]

On 4/9/2025 at 5:26 PM, 356thFS_Drewm3i-VR said:

I don't think so. Besides radio calls, there are no sounds in this mod. 

Ya, the weird thing is it's almost like someone recorded one of the unique radio calls with a jet flying over head.   Super weird.    I'll keep looking.   Maybe I'm going crazy!

Edited April 11 by Vishnu

[YDS55]

Hi

I'm currently experiencing this issue in the P51D cockpit. Is this mod related or something else?

[Roland_HUNter]

On 12/31/2024 at 11:49 PM, 356thFS_Drewm3i-VR said:

We would love to help you if you took the attitude and parked it--there's no place for that here when talking about free mods and this free collection of mods aka "mod pack."

 

Steps to install are in the initial post. Pretty basic...but I will reiterate:

 

1. Download and install jsgme to main game folder.

2. Switch mods on in the launcher.

3. Place mods and patches in "MODS" folder in IL-2 GB main game folder.

4. Activate main pack in the proper order (lower versions first) with the JSGME program--allow overwriting.

5. Activate patches in correct order in same manner.

 

And that's basically it...

I switched on the mods.
Loaded in JSGME
The IL-2 loads all the RAM and crash.

[CZGandik]

On 4/18/2025 at 3:56 PM, YDS55 said:

Hi

I'm currently experiencing this issue in the P51D cockpit. Is this mod related or something else?

 

 

hi, i have same problem. and i thing yes, it seems its related to this mod (becouse i not using any other mod...

 

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

On 4/18/2025 at 9:56 AM, YDS55 said:

Hi

I'm currently experiencing this issue in the P51D cockpit. Is this mod related or something else?

I have not seen this issue.

[YDS55]

On 4/23/2025 at 1:35 AM, 356thFS_Drewm3i-VR said:

I have not seen this issue.

It happens only in the P51D, The P51B didn't have this issue. I thought maybe it's the 4K cockpit textures mod or something.

I can't even start to think about other reasons because I really don't know.

[Dauntless]

Change your "canopy reflections" to normal. 

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

On 4/24/2025 at 8:17 AM, Dauntless said:

Change your "canopy reflections" to normal. 

Ah, that's what it must be: in vr, we don't use that setting.

[DugLife]

Probably a dumb question, but how would I change the clouds back to vanilla; as well as the "oil splatter on goggles" effect when hanging your head out of a damaged aircraft? For some reason the clouds in this modpack are only thin, cirrus clouds no matter what I set the weather to, and the oil splatter effect is bugged out to where it's just a bunch of black squares instead of something actually resembling liquid.

[Vishnu]

Any chance I could slightly modify the gunner accuracy down a little bit.    It's laser accurate and I barely finish a mission.    

[creamersdream]

Can you update the mod pack? I believe stonehouse updated all the mods to the the current version.

Edited May 23 by creamersdream

[FodderMonkey]

17 hours ago, Vishnu said:

Any chance I could slightly modify the gunner accuracy down a little bit.    It's laser accurate and I barely finish a mission.    

I usually download the latest AI Gunnery and Flak Mods and install them over this.  The most recent is good for WWII missions, but anything Flying Circus is still completely unplayable.  If you don't get one-shotted by gunners, you get one-shotted by flak and ground gunnery.  Frustrating.

[Vishnu]

On 5/19/2025 at 9:37 PM, DugLife said:

Probably a dumb question, but how would I change the clouds back to vanilla; as well as the "oil splatter on goggles" effect when hanging your head out of a damaged aircraft? For some reason the clouds in this modpack are only thin, cirrus clouds no matter what I set the weather to, and the oil splatter effect is bugged out to where it's just a bunch of black squares instead of something actually resembling liquid.

I just the oil splatter bug with big squares all over my goggles too.... so it's not just you.

 

[Stonehouse]

3 hours ago, Vishnu said:

I just the oil splatter bug with big squares all over my goggles too.... so it's not just you.

 

Disable the mod and then have a look in the mod folder and see if there is a folder called effects under data\graphics\textures. If so, look for files oil.dds and/or oil.tga. If you find them rename to something like oil.ddsx or something easy in case you want to reverse things. Re-enable the mod and see if the issue goes away. 

[Vishnu]

I mentioned this bug earlier, not sure how to fix it, but when planes are shot down and catch fire, they don't show the flames.   This include your own aircraft.

 

This is my plane in flames as I bail out.   Thoughts?

 

Notice the yellow glow from inside the plane and cockpit.

Edited May 28 by Vishnu

[JSOflyer69]

Yes I had this problem in my effects also,if you go to effects,air,you will find flame.text,delete this file,I changed this file but recently since last updates it seems to cause no flame 🔥 

I have updated my ww2,ww1 mods to work with plane fires again,have tested and they work again,ww1 planes are a lot harder to flame

I will put up a small mod later today that implements plane fires

[JSOflyer69]

aircraft flame increase.zip

use with JSGME tool putting on top of any other mods that have lost the aircraft damage flames,i have tested and should work ok

[JSOflyer69]