Where Does IL-2 Great Battles Store Settings and Missions?
IL-2 Great Battles keeps settings, key bindings, missions and tracks inside its own install folder on Windows.
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IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles stores its local state inside the game folder, not in AppData or Documents. Graphics settings live in data\startup.cfg, every key binding in data\input, custom missions in data\Missions, and recorded tracks in data\Tracks. Pilot career progress itself is tied to your online account.
That makes migration blunt but reliable. Copy the whole install folder and settings travel with it. The one file to treat gently is startup.cfg: edit it with the game closed, since the game rewrites it on exit and discards outside edits made while running.
Where IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles stores this, by platform
<Steam>\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\data
startup.cfg (graphics), input (bindings), Missions (custom missions), Tracks (recordings) all under data\. Career progress is account-side. Copy the folder whole to migrate; edit configs with the game closed.
Frequently asked questions
How do I move my IL-2 controls to a new PC?
Copy the data\input folder for bindings and data\startup.cfg for graphics. Both live in the install folder, so they transfer to any machine with the same modules installed.
Where do I put downloaded custom missions?
Drop the .mission files into data\Missions. The forum's mod guide confirms that folder as the read location, and JSGME-based mods expect the same structure.
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