[Morbit]

I think you are limited to your monitors native resolution.
Your 19 in. Acer widescreen LCD's maximum res is probably 1440x900
If you go beyond that you will have trouble.

You can force IL2 to run in widescreen by modifing your config file which you will find In your IL2
main folder. Just make the changes, close, and say yes to save

this is mine, I'm running a 1920x1200

[window]
width=1920 < chanee this to your maximum width
height=1200 < change this to your maximum highth
ColourBits=32
DepthBits=24
StencilBits=8
ChangeScreenRes=1
FullScreen=1
DrawIfNotFocused=0
EnableResize=0
EnableClose=1
SaveAspect=0 < make sure this is 0 not 1
Use3Renders=0

make sure the rest of the values are the same as above

If this works out for you, I would recommend trying this mod

(The link is inoperative)

works great for me ____ good luck