Installing RU edition of DCS

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[BabaLooey]

Short instruction on how to install Russian edition of DCS...

On DVD autostart you are presented with a screen where you press first available button to start the installation procedure:


In first dialogue you choose the installation path. Button to the right is "Browse". Under the path box you have info on space needed (4.4 GB in my example) and space available. On first pic there is only 3.3 GB available, and "Next" button is disabled:


There is more space on another drive (29.5 GB) and now you can choose "Next" (lower left button with arrow):


Then you are presented with some options, like desktop and Start menu shortcuts. The fourth one is not checked by default, and I did not learn it's meaning so far. I do not think that it is related to movies (Producers notes), as they are not copied from DVD. Therefore, you can do without it:


Near the end of lengthy installation you are presented with more readable DirectX installation:


End of installation. Press the only available button:


Afterwards you can see two icons on the desktop. Orange one is for singleplayer, general options, mission editor, and campaignd, and the blue one is for Multiplayer:


Rename them as you wish:


On first start you will be presented with StarForce screen. Press middle button:


PS - ZaltysZ offered some good advices, which I am now moving here

[ZaltysZ]

I can't write Croatian, but you may translate.

Installation of Russian Black Shark must be done with Language for non-unicode programs set to Russian. If you don't do that, you will get garbage in shortcut names and screwed file names in Mission folder. After installation, you may switch language to previous one.

Further, you will get one more problem. DCS can't read UTF-8 filenames, so if you have language set to Croatian and there are files with Russian names in Mission folder, game will freeze if you press "Mission" or "Replay tracks" ingame. To fix that, put files, which I attached, into mission folder and execute cyr2lat.bat and all Russian names will be transliterated. If ED fixes this bug in future, you will be able to execute lat2cyr.bat to get them back into Cyrillic.

[Este2000]

Thanx for info

[=VARP=ReNNo_BiH]

I can't write Croatian, but you may translate.

Installation of Russian Black Shark must be done with Language for non-unicode programs set to Russian. If you don't do that, you will get garbage in shortcut names and screwed file names in Mission folder. After installation, you may switch language to previous one.

Further, you will get one more problem. DCS can't read UTF-8 filenames, so if you have language set to Croatian and there are files with Russian names in Mission folder, game will freeze if you press "Mission" or "Replay tracks" ingame. To fix that, put files, which I attached, into mission folder and execute cyr2lat.bat and all Russian names will be transliterated. If ED fixes this bug in future, you will be able to execute lat2cyr.bat to get them back into Cyrillic.

Strange, I tried it, but script says : "The system cannot find the file specified."
And, yes, I extracted cyr2lat.bat in Missions folder.
Any ideas?

[ZaltysZ]

You need to install the game with Russian set as default language for non-unicode programs. This setting can be found at Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Advanced tab > Language for non-Unicode Applications. If you fail to do that, mission file names will be something like ";№:?::%;№.miz" and my script will not find them (it expects cyrillic names).

[=VARP=ReNNo_BiH]

Name those files are for example : Äĺńŕíň.miz, Ęŕëäŕőâŕđŕ.miz, Ńĺâĺđíĺĺ Ăŕăđű.miz ...etc...
Is it OK?

However, I won't set russian as default language because of that.

It's fine...my game doesn't crash, but will be better to see mission names in latin alphabet.

[BabaLooey]

Thanks for tips ZaltysZ!
This is something I've discussed earlier here, as Russian edition of FC refuses to start at all without that change of non-unicode (NU) setting. However, DCS works fine, missions load regardless of NU setting, but it is much easier to read like this 
Even when we can see cyrillic properly, not many of the wetbacks here now how to read it

Yes, installing it while RU-NU setting are on is crucial for correct copying of the files from DVD to HDD, but also correct codepage. On my PC I get erros as DOS prompst with CP1251, instead of 1250, at sometimes you could have errors.

Do you have any proggie that could transliterate TXT files en masse?

PS - I will post above instructions in ENG section soon, too little tiem at the moment, got up early today to finish off some crap

For those of you that feel they are too unskilled to do this on their own, here is a download link for file with transliterated titles only:

Za vas koji se smatrate nedovoljno vještim da sami izvedete ovaj postupak, ovdje možete preuzeti datoteke s transkribiranim nazivima datoteka:

http://rapidshare.com/files/163595132/Missions_transliterated.rar