[Burning Beard]

I just went through this. Got bored with the update thingy so I uninstalled IL2 and did a careful reinstall. What I found was after installing 2.01 everything worked fine, it choked on the Mods folder of the Mod activator, what cured it was replacing the buttons file in the MODS folder which I found here

D:\Games\Ubisoft\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\MODS\STD\gui\game

I put in the new buttons file and everything worked fine.

Beard