I posted this in another section but thought I'd also post it here in the hopes of getting some help.

Well I'm having a hell of a time getting IL-2 to work. I've got most everything set up so I can fly now and went to test the game. It starts but the weird thing is I'm zoomed in on the upper left corner. I go to move the mouse and I see the cursor disappear. I alt tab out and back thinking this will fix the aspect ratio and it doesn't! So I decide to set it for my desktop resolution- 1600x1200. Start it up and same damn thing! Stuck up in the upper left corner and am zoomed in. Nothing I do will give me a full screen view or make the mouse work within it!

I've now done a fresh install and just testing it from the DVD without any patching causes the same problem to happen. I even started a game in Hyperlobby and launched from there and same thing. Looking at the preview from the icon on the task bar when I alt tab out shows me the entire game screen but when I click on the program to go back in I'm zoomed in on the upper left corner again and no mouse... I've already screamed and cried... running out of ideas here... I've tried various compatibility modes, running as admin, etc. and nothing changes this. I could really use some fresh ideas here as I'm supposed to have a campaign mission tonight with the squad... Thanks.

Hmm, my IL-2 1946 4.09m works fine. I had problems getting my joystick to work properly until I upgraded my 2 year old Saitek drivers, but beyond that no problem.

S! MadDog. Yeah, I know. Many of my mates have no problems and I'm thinking it is related to my video card/drivers at this point with the Win 7 mix thrown in. I'll be trying different drivers when I get down with work later but boy is this frustrating!

Yeah, IL-2 even worked on the beta and RC1 versions for me. Has to be something not related to Windows 7.

-Skater

Yeah, a couple of months I copied my IL-2 folder onto a different computer with the RC on it and it worked fine. Worked fine in Vista Ultimate. Just doesn't want to work for me now no matter what I've tried and I've run out of ideas. Seriously considering giving up on Win7 pro right now...

I just figured it out!!!!!! Under compatibility I had to select the "disable display scaling on high DPI settings" and it fixed it fine!!! Didn't have to do this on the RC, though that computer has a 9800GTX+ in it with different drivers so that may be it or something that changed from the RC to the Gold version. Either way I'm now a happy man again. :lol: Ah, life is good again.

I can't seem to install IL2 on my Windows 7 system. I try and run the settup and Windows install wizard starts then goes away and nothing else happens. Any ideas?

Did you try running the setup in compatibility mode? Easiest is to just copy over an existing install.

I'm having the same problem over here. Shifted it into Win XP SP2 and SP3 both compatability mode, and I'm getting a message from Win7 saying the file isn't compatible. Brand new DVD, picked up a couple of weeks ago.

If you guys weren't from the US I'd ship one of you my IL-2 1946 CD which does work on Win7.

Can there really be such a difference in releases? I have the small jewel case complete edition which is branded as 1946 but also has the Pe-2, Pacific Fighters, Aces Expansions and pretty much everything else ever released, and installs default 4.07m.

This one worked without any special things in Win7 64bit.

Your best option really seems to be an XP machine, installing it on there, copy it to DVD and drag/drop it into your games directory on Win7.