4.006 Crash: missing assets in Steam version swf folder?

[-332FG-Apoxy]

I'm experiencing a consistent crash whenever I attempt to load a map using the Steam version of the game.  I tried a clean reinstall:

 

1. Ran steam uninstall

2. Deleted all local game files

3. Ran steam install

 

No mods, skins, or startup.cfg changes.  Game was working well prior to the update.  I normally run in VR but for these tests I've only loaded into VR once, the rest have been using my monitors only in non-VR mode with SteamVR not started.

 

Game loads normally to the menu screen.  Choose quick mission, choose a spawn, click start, game crashes within seconds.  

 

IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\data\_gui.log.err file is created with the following entry alone:

 

Error: Unknown file format at URL "swf\il2/fonts/fonts.gfx"

I've included a crash dump from my latest attempt.

 

I'm on Win 10, Nvidia 1070, latest video drivers. 

 

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Il-2.exe.19832.dmp.zip

[-332FG-Apoxy]

This looks like it is resolved.  It appears that a simple reboot fixed the issue, so it's likely it was specific to my machine.

 

A little color in case it's helpful to someone in the future: Steam's local file validation tool was detecting 1 failed file every time I ran it, which led me to believe it might be antivirus interference.  When I went to check my AV settings via the Win10 system tray, I noticed there were a lot of items missing from the tray.  I had experienced a windows explorer crash-restart cycle earlier in the day and had not rebooted since, which I strongly suspect had something to do with the generally bad state my system was in.  I had also played around in Process Manager, killing some processes like Microsoft Photos and Skype that windows nefariously keeps alive with lots of resources, and I may have inadvertently killed something important to the system that caused the game to be unstable.

 

After a reboot (which admittedly, foolishly came AFTER I clean-reinstalled the game) the crash issue no longer persists and I'm able to get in to a mission as normal.