Win7 USERS - 2 steps to resolving timeouts after the Win7 update:
Step 1 click START ^ Control panel ^ Programs ^ Programs an Features Go to Microsoft NET Framework 4 Client Profile.
Double click on it , An repair it , After repair it will ask restart your computer, do it
Step 2 Then go to C PROGRAM FILES X86/ Steamapps/common/il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover/redist/DirectX/
Scroll down til you see DXSETUP Double click on it , and run it!!
Source JTDawg:
http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.co...highlight=dawg