[nearmiss]

Frustration eh?

Back at square one.

You need a competent IL2 installaton first and foremost.

go control panel and uninstall IL2

Then go to folder location where the folers for IL2 are.

Delete all those files and folders.

Delete contents of virtualstore folder

C:/Users/Myuser/AppData/Local/VirtualStore/

myuser is your user account name

If you don't delete the contents of VirtualStore and you install Il2 in the a folder named

c:/program files or c:/program files(x86) your IL2 will store missions and other data in the VirtualStore folder.

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Do a clean install of IL2 into directory C:\IL2

Run the IL2 application. Go into quick mission builder and run a mission. You can run on Autopilot is fine. Just make sure you have a working IL2 application.

Update your Il2 with 4.08 Patch

Run the IL2 application after intalling the 4.08 patch. Run another quick misison to make sure is is working.

If you get through this procedure you know you have a "good working copy of IL2".

This is adequate installation to enjoy IL2 online and offline.

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If you have the 4.08 IL2 working you can patch further using 4.09.

The patch 4.09 is not finished, but it is working.

You can apply the patch 4.09 as it is floating around.

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If you get this far and everything is working well then you can think about applying mods.

I would not apply the 4.09 patch unless you plan to add mods.

Then I would suggest you use the Unified Installer, because it has a MOD friendly version of 4.09 with switcher program. This way you can do online servers where only 4.08 allowed. You can use either IL2 patched versions 4.09 or 4.08 with or without mods. 4 choices available.



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