Win 8.1, no mouse in the game panel

[KG26_Alpha]

You should have these packages in your 8.1 installation.

[Flyby]

I'll check for those.
Flyby out

[majorfailure]

Originally Posted by RPS69

Well, I attacked it on the windows part, and I got success at least on my problem.

There is an option on:

SCREEN RESOLUTION
Make text and other items larger or smaller

Originally it just shows you a bar with a zoom level, that appears to be centered. If you select "Let me choose one scaling level for all my displays", you will learn that it is set to 125%

Checking this and setting it to 100% solved my problem, and also allowed mouse use again.

Make this post a sticky please! You just solved a problem that bugged me for hours, I always lost the mouse after updating.
That it is a screen res problem I maybe never would have found out - though it seemed suspicious that the game ran in 75% of the desktop res still filling the screen completely(But mouse initially working okay).

Thanks to you!

[Adwark]

Originally Posted by Flyby

Fired the old dog up for giggles and grins, but can't get my mouse to work so as to select missions, options, etc.

I has similar problem. I was reinstall Win 8.1 and when I run game, mouse freeze and not respond. I was deleting all game shortcuts from start screen and desktop, and make new, directly from program folder - problem solved. I has an nVidia GTX 580 with latest drivers and patches for Win 8.1 x64. Screen resolution 2560x1440.
Game version 4.13 with out mods.

[SturmovikPilot]

goto il2*.exe properties menu, compatibility tab and set (√ ) Disable display scaling on high DPI settings. I struggled with this issue until I somehow discovered this trick in Windows 8.1.