[nyali]

i'm familiar with this problem - wait for the game to completely load so you have the ingame menu onscreen. Then click on the il-2 icon on the task bar [which will then vanish] you are then left with il-2 on your screen but no moving mouse pointer . Ctrl-Alt-Delete , let the il-2 window minimise and the windows task manager pop up. Close the task manager, click on the il-2 icon in the task bar and your sorted.

No idea where the problem stems from , I suffered it a while back then it stopped after the last reformat. Its almost as though windows gets confused over what window has priority on the screen.

Hope this helps