Go to your desktop and right-click on the Combat Flight Simulator 2 shortcut.You will get a dialog box saying that a file by this name already exists - click on replace. Paste the cfs2.exe you copied from the No-CD Fix here.If you downloaded the game on C:/, this should be in C:/Microsoft Games/Combat Flight Simulator 2/. Navigate to the folder where the game was installed (where the game's cfs2.exe file is). Just extract the compressed archive and copy the cfs2.exe.This file is available for download on many websites such as My abandonware, GameBurnWorld and Mega Games Important: The game needs a No-CD Fix to run on Windows 10.Change the installation directory to something other than C:/Program Files(x86) as some people have faced permission issues by installing here. These steps should work you regardless if you install the game by CD or from a download. I hope I can help anyone get CFS2 up and running on Win10 minus all the frustration. So I downloaded the game from My abandonware and finally got it working on Windows 10 after hours of hair-pulling frustration. What really impressed me about this game is that it offers a highly capable 'Mission Builder' which allows you to create hypothetical scenarios of your own, right from selecting the type & number of airplanes to the location of the dogfight/battle. The game puts you in the cockpit of various airplanes in the Pacific Theater of WWII and allows you to get right into the thick of action. Turns out, I was a bit lucky - the game is now considered abandonware, which means it IS FREE TO DOWNLOAD!Ĭombat Flight Simulator 2, also known as Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2: WW II Pacific Theater, is a flight simulator developed by Microsoft and released in 2000. These are pretty expensive in my country, so I had to choose a simulator which allows me to use my mouse as a controller.Īfter a bit of Google-Fu, I ended up on a flight sim forum where a poster said that Combat Flight Simulator 2 allowed using the mouse as a controller. I had one more problem though - I did not have a flight stick. I installed it and was really enjoying it, when I noticed that it was really taxing my low-spec laptop. I tried War Thunder, which, though free was a download of a whopping 37 GIGABYTES.

I am especially fascinated by bombers, how they were used to level entire cities, destroy ammunition factories and bomb railway lines. However, I never had an opportunity to play a simulator which allows you to control these vehicles. I've always been fond of WWII combat vehicles - battleships, bombers and airplanes.

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