gave it 40 minutes and still nothing. everything works fine but when i press the little green button to generate the campaign it just freezes completely to the point where i cant even Alt+F4 out of the game but i can still hear the menu music playing on the background. ive never used Dgen or DCG so i may have installed it wrong but i want to make sure i try everything i can before going trough the lengthy process of re-installing everything
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Check that you have installed the campaign correctly:
Decompress the Normandy.rar into your DCG home directory.
Make a backup of the DGEN directory in you IL-2 game directory
Copy Dgen & Paintschemes folders from your Normandy folder and paste them in your IL-2 game directory. Overwrite if prompted
Start DCG, select Optional Third Party Data Folder.
Navigate to the Normandy folder and select allcampaigns.dcg
Select "Replace Career Generator (DGen)" in the DCG main screen.
Select Off Line Career (Full Auto-Generation Mode) in the DCG main screen.
Launch Il-2 and select one of the above-mentioned careers.
If you have, check (using Windows task manager) that you don't have another DCG or DGEN running before you launch the game. If you do, kill it before you launch the game.
If still no luck, try another DCG campaign.
If another DCG campaign does not work, reinstall DCG.
If the problem still persist, post log and dcgerror.txt here.