Ok, good news and bad news.
Bad news first. It crashed again, in the exact same place as the other two times. So that was another 20 minutes of my day doing the same boring mission again, with no fix, and the exact same crash I had described. The file I sent earlier, was it any help at all? I kind of get the feeling no one looked at it.
The fix you sent -- much appreciated. It did seem to markedly improve my performance and probably was addressing an issue that was hurting other aspects of my DCS play, so that is good. But the campaign is still broken as-is for me. It breaks right when the final ILS waypoint flicks on, reliably. Nothing else I play on DCS, campaign, mission, etc., breaks like this. Something is wrong.
Here's the latest crash file, attached. Also Tac AI. I would appreciate someone looking at it, assuming it is worth your time to address so that I can get what I paid for, a working campaign. Until I can play past this mission, my negative review on Steam stands, the one where I say it doesn't work. Maybe a lot of those reviews don't hold a lot of weight because a lot of those people didn't own the DLC, but I own all of the relevant DLC and whole lot more. I buy DLC often, and most of the time it works. This isn't working. I would like this escalated to the next step, and that I not be asked to do another playthrough until someone has looked at the files I made an effort to attach here. Thank you.
@Hammer11 -- I appreciate your help, but you know I'm posting this in the F-15C Aggressors campaign, right? Not sure why you are mentioning an F-18, did I accidentally send a file from another mission? I did do a F-18 mission right after my crash (rather, tried it, Track IR was not working after that). I'm wondering now if you had recently completed the F-18 Aggressors or Red Flag campaign instead and thought I was posting about that. I'm posting specifically about Mission 2, F-15 Aggressors BFM campaign. latest files.zip