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Now, you all know I don't fly IL2, however, there've been a lot of guys from your neck of the woods back in CFS because the 4.02 patch is causing some lock-up/hesitation grief on some machines.
It seems to be affecting mainly Intel P4 machines.
I found this fix on another site which may help. As I say, I don't fly it so I'm not vouching for it, but the others seem to like it.

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If you have a Pentium 4 based system you may encounter pauses in 4.02. I had them last night. Every 10 seconds or so the game stops for a split second...most times when you are about to shoot...lol.

In the readme of V402 you find the fix which worked for me. I still get pauses, but far more rare now.

From the readme:

If you have a computer with a Pentium 4 processor, you may occasionally encounter game lock-ups or crashes to desktop. In order to solve that, copy your il2_core.dll into the il2_corep4.dll (for example, with the following command: "copy il2_core.dll il2_corep4.dll"; or, in Windows Explorer, navigate to your sim installation directory, delete the existing il2_corep4.dll, make a copy of the il2_core.dll, and rename the copy to il2_corep4.dll)"

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(thx to "Free-Birds.org")

And here's me thinking it's just my pc thats useless.

Thanks for that Shades

lol yw.
(don't think it fixes the P47 / LA7 / carrier landing probs though)

~S~

Tryed it, and it worked good...BUT on some maps, i got a drastic drop in FPS. Before the "fix" = 35 after = 5 put the orginal file back and im upp to 35 again...strange...lol

(don't think it fixes the P47 / LA7 / carrier landing probs though)

's best not to talk about my carrier landing skills

I just remembered something, I don't have a pentium 4 anymore (celeron of somekind) and i still get pauses .. maybe my pc is useless

glad im AMD

Running a dual core P4 here and get no pauses or hesitation in the game at all.