[Dustydog]

Wrong place for this, but enter your conf ini settings and save them, you may have to turn off UAC (User Account Control). I believe you can turn it down in windows 7.

Here's what I have in mine, just change the res for yours:

[window]
width=1680
height=1050
ColourBits=32
DepthBits=24
StencilBits=8
ChangeScreenRes=1
FullScreen=1
DrawIfNotFocused=0
EnableResize=0
EnableClose=0
SaveAspect=0
Use3Renders=0

The black bars on either side will remain whilst it's loading, and in the menu screen, but when you play the game it will switch to full screen.

If you run the set up for IL2, or go into the game video modes it will overwrite your settings. Hope that helps....