[Radoye]

I know how anoying this sort of thing can be... pity I can't help bar suggest perhaps mearly acquiring the tool itself might be enough...? Maybe it could be re-conifgured to look for IL2, without the worry of having to find a ToW?

You see the trick is that for some reason Oleg approved ToW modding and he allowed these tools to be released as a part of the latest ToW patch, together with a ToW SFS extractor - but he's still against modding Il-2. So this TGA viewer will work only with a legal copy of ToW - hard-coded within the EXE itself is a check to see if the copy protection bundled with ToW is present.

It won't work without ToW. I tested it.

It won't work with a copy of ToW downloaded from torrents. I tested it.

It only works with a legit bought copy of ToW.

It sucks, i know, but until something else comes along it's the best thing we have.