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[blackshark]

Hi all,

Since October I am retired and now I have time to enjoy my hobbies, and IL2 is top on list.
I have a few questions; sorry but I am not native English so I hope to explain well my questions and doubt, at the end now I am an "old" man, maybe a little "obsolete" :-) on those "technicals", so please help me :-)

I just bought a new rig (ryzen 7800x3d and 4070 ti super).

I remember that windows 11 should be no problem, now my question is about monitors resolution, for two topics:
- I still have to buy a new monitor and have to decide if 1440 or 4k, but I want to be sure that buying a 4k i will have not problems in what I see on the screen (does il2-1946 manage the 4k rdefinition in conf.ini ?)
- and decide if 16:9 or 21:9; i mean to understand if I could have as a result planes/cockpits "stretched" or anything strange in the visual sizes

I know I have to change the resolution in conf.ini; so I ask you if it should work also with 4k ?

So what happens in 1440 and/or 4k to the HUD, Order/Command pad, radio chatter subtitles etc ? will the characters become smaller or their size will be the same as in 1920x1080 ?
If I buy a 4k, should IL2-1946 work fine with a 1440 resolution defined in conf.ini ? or in this case I should the "native" resolution of the monitor ?

And if instead I will buy a 21:9 should it work fine with IL2-1946 ?
Here again what will happen to the HUD etc ? Will they be "in the corner" like in 1920 x 1080 or not ? will they be move "inside" nearer to the bottom center of the screen ?
And if I buy the 21:9 but have problems with what I see, is there a way to show IL2-1946 like in a 16:19, with two vertical black bars on right and left ?

I hope I explained my doubts and hope you can help me

Thank you o this great community and long life to IL2-1946

[TheOligopolist]

I don't know about ultrawide, but 4k is no problem.
Nvidia and AMD both let you run an emulated higher resolution as a form of anti-aliasing, the Nvidia version is called DSR and will let you run games at 4K on a 1080p screen etc.
The interface does scale, but I suggest you try it out for yourself to make sure things aren't going to get too tiny.

[WhiteSnake1976]

On Ultrawide most games get cropped on the top and bottom, so your missing a bit of immage you would have had if you had a 4K screen.

I run IL-2 on a 4K screen and it works fine, use these setting in the Conf.ini:

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[window]
width=3840
height=2160
ColourBits=32
DepthBits=24
StencilBits=8
ChangeScreenRes=1
FullScreen=1
DrawIfNotFocused=0
EnableResize=0
EnableClose=1
SaveAspect=0
Use3Renders=0
WideScreenFoV=1
UIColor=0
UIDetail=5
UIBackground=rnd
Use3RendersUI=0

P.S. you might need to Right Click on the il2fb.exe and open Properties > Compatibility > Change high DPI settings > Adjust High DPI scaling, and change that to Aplication (mine is in Dutch so i am not sure what it says in English)
Otherwise your game might not be fully rendered on screen.