How to Install "First Eagles: The Great War 1918" on Windows 11

How to Install "First Eagles: The Great War 1918" on Windows 11

First Eagles: The Great War 1918 is one of the very first flight simulation games published by Thirdware Productions back in 2006. It stands out from the rest of the games produced by the company by being set on World War I and simulating old planes from that era instead of jets.

I have to say this game is awesome. By flying an old WWI plane, you only rely on a pair of machine guns and your skills to get out alive from any mission. No fancy computer locking other planes for you and no missiles shooting down enemies from miles away.

Here you have to get up close and personal with the enemy, manually aim your guns and decide yourself when to make the shots while other planes get also close and personal with you in an attempt to send you out to meet Saint Peter. Once the battle begins there is no time to rest.

So, what are you waiting for? here's how to install "First Eagles: The Great War 1918" on Windows 11.

Software needed

In order to install First Eagles: The Great War 1918 in your Windows 11 PC you need to have the following list programs:

1. The installation CD/DVD or .ISO image of First Eagles: The Great War 1918.

2. The First Eagles: The Great War 1918 official October 2008 patch. It can be downloaded from MEGA by clicking here.

3. The HDR Mod 1.01A. Available for download at CombatAce, an excellent online community of flight simulation players and modders.

4. 3. dgVoodoo, a legacy DirectX and Glide graphics card API wrapper/implementation program1 that provides support to run Windows and DOS-based old programs using Glide or DirectX. Available for download here.

Installation process 

Before we begin: If you have a Windows 10 PC, this whole process also works for Windows 10 based PCs. Now let's continue with the install.

Once you have all the required software at hand, we can proceed with the installation of First Eagles: The Great War 1918 on your Windows 11 PC. The installation process will be as follows:

1. Insert the First Eagles: The Great War 1918 CD/DVD on mount the .ISO image and open the setup file. This is one of those "click Next and then Next" cases until the installation is completed.

Do NOT open the game yet, it still will be unplayable at this point.

2. Open the First Eagles: The Great War 1918 official October 2008 patch (FE_Update_Oct2008.exe) and complete the installation process, another case of "click Next and then Next". Just remember to install this patch in the same folder the game was installed.

3. Unzip the HD1.01 mod into a new directory then open the enbseries.ini file using a text editor and find and change the following command line from:

[GLOBAL]

UseEffect=1 

to

[GLOBAL]

UseEffect=0

Then save the enbseries.ini file.

4. Copy the modified enbseries.ini and the unzipped d3d9.dll into your game install directory, copy a second copy of the enbseries.ini into your Flight sub-directory of your game install directory (this is very important).

5 Unzip the dgVoodoo file into a different folder and look for a file called DDraw.dll. Then copy this file into the First Eagles: The Great War 1918 install directory.

6. Open, play and enjoy First Eagles: The Great War 1918 on your Windows 11 PC.

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