I went back as you advised and tried both versions several times.
I can remove them and the game will start, but in both cases, the game is crashing on start. Am I missing any settings that need to be activated?
Additionally I find this generated in a .txt after each crash. If I repeat the start attempt, it simply generates these same lines over and over.
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*** il2ge.dll process attach ***
IL2GE was loaded by IL-2 Selector.
LoadLibrary: C:\Users\Fresco\Desktop\Rising_Sun_412.2\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\bin\hpi.dll
LoadLibrary: C:\Users\Fresco\Desktop\Rising_Sun_412.2\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\bin\verify.dll
LoadLibrary: C:\Users\Fresco\Desktop\Rising_Sun_412.2\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\bin\java.dll
LoadLibrary: C:\Users\Fresco\Desktop\Rising_Sun_412.2\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\bin\zip.dll
LoadLibrary: wrapper.dll
LoadLibrary: C:\Users\Fresco\Desktop\Rising_Sun_412.2\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\il2fb.exe
LoadLibrary: C:\Users\Fresco\Desktop\Rising_Sun_412.2\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\DT.dll
LoadLibrary: C:\Users\Fresco\Desktop\Rising_Sun_412.2\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\pathfind.dll
LoadLibrary: C:\Users\Fresco\Desktop\Rising_Sun_412.2\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\il2_corep4.dll
LoadLibrary: C:\Users\Fresco\Desktop\Rising_Sun_412.2\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\il2_usgs2.dll
LoadLibrary: C:\Users\Fresco\Desktop\Rising_Sun_412.2\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\mg_snd_sse.dll
LoadLibrary: C:\Users\Fresco\Desktop\Rising_Sun_412.2\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\jgl.dll
LoadLibrary: dinput8.dll
LoadLibrary: C:\Users\Fresco\Desktop\Rising_Sun_412.2\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\bin\net.dll
LoadLibrary: ws2_32.dll
LoadLibrary: C:\Users\Fresco\Desktop\Rising_Sun_412.2\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\bin\zip.dll
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Assertion failed: 0
File: /builds/vrresto/il2ge/core_wrapper/main.cpp:86
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Aborted.
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Could not load il2ge/lib/mingw_crash_handler.dll - backtrace disabled.
To get a useful backtrace please download https://github.com/jrfonseca/drmingw/releases/download/0.8.2/drmingw-0.8.2-win32.7z and copy the file bin/mgwhelp.dll to your IL-2 directory.
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Thanks for the patience, you guys are doing awesome work!
Micah