[RRuger]

Hey guys, some of you and even myself have had an issue with the loader screen freezing at the start of the game and I might have found a solution, if you also have STAB. I'm not sure if this is what fixed it because there is no way for me to test it again. So I started the game like normal using Stab and I've noticed that it takes longer on the initial start up than if I have already played the game, I restarted it with Stab in the tray. I had to do something else important on my computer and rather than waiting for the game to boot up I aborted by right clicking on Stab and clicked close. When I got my other stuff done I restarted Stab and started IL2 and in wen straight to the loader screen with no freeze, also loaded much faster. Give it a try and see if this helps but you'll probably have to re-set your resolution on your desktop because for some reason an abort at the first stages re-sets your resolution to the ingame res. Let use know if this works...