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Installing Combat Flight Simulator 2 (CFS2) on Windows 10

 I've always been fond of WWII combat vehicles - battleships, bombers and airplanes. However, I never had an opportunity to play a simulator which allows you to control these vehicles. I am especially fascinated by bombers, how they were used to level entire cities, destroy ammunition factories and bomb railway lines. I tried War Thunder, which, though free was a download of a whopping 37 GIGABYTES. I installed it and was really enjoying it, when I noticed that it was really taxing my low-spec laptop. So I decided to go for an older sim. I had one more problem though - I did not have a flight stick. These are pretty expensive in my country, so I had to choose a simulator which allows me to use my mouse as a controller. After 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. Turns out, I was a bit lucky - the game is now considered abandonware, which means it IS FREE TO DOWNLOAD! Combat Fl...