Possibly the final straw...

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by JG14_Jagr

I can't tell you how many times I've made a conf.ini setting change and my game would not load because the setting isn't yet supported.. If I had made several I'd have been re installing.. at least when you do one at a time you can go back easily.. (usually)

You can just remove your conf.ini from Documents forlder adn the game will create new default one. No need to reinstall. You can even remove (back up) the whole IL-2 CoD folder from the documents folder to set everything to default.