[Doolittle81]

You need to resize the image so that it is square. Squish it to 1024x1024 and it will work for you. The game will then stretch it back to normal when it displays. :wink: :wink: :wink:

Doh!!! How stupid of me! I knew that Step from four or five years ago when I first made new background screens (*.tga files) for most of the various campaign/career, etc, menus. Returning to IL2 after 18+ months absence, I hadn't seen anything in these threads on changing the title screen regarding the resizing (and aspect ratio change). Of course it makes absolutely logical sense that the same resizing step would be required! Again, I should have immediately known that.
Thanks for helping me/us out.

By the way, I use PaintShopPro to modify any desired image (jpg) in its normal aspect ratio, and then use IrfanView to convert the *.jpg file to the resized 1024X1024 *.tga file. For some reason, the output TGA formatted file differs between the two Applications....the one from IrfanView works.

FYI, my SplashScreen now looks like this: