[TinyTim]

I had a very similar problem (loading till 95%), and it turned out that it was because I applied some mod mistakenly during the IL2 was running in the background (I just Alt-Tab ed out of it and forgot to quit it). I quit, reapplied the mod, restarted the sim and it worked perfectly.

Hope that helps.

Ah, and BTW, it's just a splash screen that's in russian, everything else works just fine.