I'm beating myself over this one. I can't figure it out. I suppose I could be less of a perfectionist and just live with it, but hey this is a simulator. Where in real life would you see oblongated squatty dials? Unless you were under the influence and then of course you shouldn't be flying.

My problem: 24" screen with a 1920 x 1080 native resolution. I modified the conf ini file, trying several suggestions that I gleaned from other posts. Mainly width=1920, height=1080, Save aspect--tried both 0 and 1, EnableResize--tried both 0 and 1. I also tried adjusting the Nvidia settings, preserving/adjusting aspect ratios, etc... and I still get the same screen, squatty dials and aircraft.

Any suggestions? I searched many forum postings to no avail. I appreciate the collective brainpower of this forum's members.

Me too. My solution is to play IL-2 in its native aspect ratio. The choices I found were:

• circular dials, but with black areas at left and right of the screen
• circular dials, graphics extending to left and right, but guillotined at top and bottom
• graphics stretched to fit top/bottom and left/right, but distorted graphics

I would rather have circular dials and black bars at the sides, than lose graphics or fill up my LCD screen with distorted graphics.

Thanks 4Shades.

This is not information that I wanted to hear but at least I can stop searching. I appreciate your help.
sincerely Helmut1

I'm not sure if I understand your problem but this game wasn't made with widescreen monitors in mind, being too old for that. Many widescreen users, myself included (I run it at 1680x1050), chose "graphics extending to left and right, but guillotined at top and bottom". The game is still being developed and patched by Team Daidalos, so perhaps they will introduce a real widescreen support one day, provided the game's engine allows it.

Logarto, what you are describing is exactly what I would like to accomplish, provided that the end result is everything being proportional. I'd appreciate your settings, both conf ini settings and the in-game video controls (i.e. open GL vs DirectX, 1024x 768 x32 etc...) I'd sincerely love to getting this working properly on this machine.

I was running 1920*1080 fullscreen, with the top and bottom cutoff. After a minute or two, couldn't notice that anything was missing, particularly with TIR.
Unfortunately I can't remember exactly how I edited the conf.ini, but the answer was in the ubi IL-2 forums, something like this, had to do some hunting-

This

This

And this

Even though my monitor is 1920 *1080, I believe that I had to set the conf resolution to 1920*1200.

I do recall that conf.ini had to be made read-only after making the changes, otherwise the game put it back.

Thanks tagTaken2. I gleaned all of the suggestions tried several and still a no go. My next step is to start afresh and re-install game. Good suggestion on 1920 x 1200.

I gotta get this going since Il-2COD is a flop


Sincerely

Can you post the window section of your conf ini

It should look like this

[window]
width=1920
height=1080
ColourBits=32
DepthBits=24
StencilBits=8
ChangeScreenRes=1
FullScreen=1
DrawIfNotFocused=0
EnableResize=0
EnableClose=1
SaveAspect=0
Use3Renders=0

My 26" monitor is a native 1920 x 1200 and it runs without distortion, for what it's worth, apologies.
But you can't find those monitors anymore, 1920 x 1080 is a b@stard child.

As mentioned elsewhere, "go 1920x1080 for 22" or lower, but 1920x1200 for 24" or bigger." Just for reference.

I have a 32" LED TV and a Dell 24"Monitor. The TV @ 1920x1080 and the Dell @ 1920x1200 I get no distortion on either providing my conf.ini is set correctly