Sometimes, quite rarely but it does happen, hardware just dies.

Can you now play anything else on it?

No problems playing other modern games ,its not hardware failure related .

I decided to take a ZEN aproach to this game.
1) This sim has a GREAT POTENTIAL
2) You have not another modern WW2 sim (of course you always have the beloved il-2:1946)
3) These are ALPHA and BETA patches, by definition it´s always have bugs, in other way they will be OFFICIAL patches.

If we accept these 3 premises, maybe we will be more calms and we could wait to the official patch. If the official patch will be fully bugged, then we can go and burn the Luthier´s office.

regards

Yeah......mines porked mate,just constant launcher crashes,have resorted to the last official update but now my online play is comprimised...........without that I'm really not interested,so I'm having a break from it all.

Trouble is Ive never been able to get started to 'have a break'...ordered the Collectors Edition and then via Steam (over 100 euro there in total)because couldnt wait to play on release day ...well over a year on and Im still waiting ...Up to now was lucky if I could mess around for 15 minutes with it offline after the alpha patch -now I cant do ANYTHING with it -even worse stutters than original release .Have tried everything .Maybe someone could post a conf for a mid range PC -mine is E8600 at 4.3GHz and GTX295/3GB Ram -I WAS running a 2500K /5970 /8GB and it was no better !This official patch cant come fast enough!

I'll bite.

So you downloaded the game freshly from steam and then applied the beta patch, yes?
Your computer also has the latest drivers, microsoft net framework 4.0 and direct X runtimes?

What settings do you use? SSOA deactivated? Epilespy filter off?

Did you check your Nvidia panel settings for this game? Maybe something is off in there?

For what it's worth, the game has been running on my PC very well for the last couple patches, even before on my old computer as long as I had shadows deactivated. Should not be a hardware problem, but a software conflict could be the cause.

Bingo!

Remove the .ini files and let it recreate. You'll have to configure your settings but that worked for me.

Also, don't forget about the cache folder.

Not completely,

Spit IIa has better speed now, can just about tangle with 109 on even footing at mid-high alts, frame rates are great but;

anytime an enemy (non AI) plane is on my screen and close, or clouds are close?

Massive stutters, 0-2 fps makes it unplayable. Shame, will wait for next patch.

regards,
Sam.

OK Ive got this fixed by rolling back Nvidia driver for GTX295 from Beta June one to official May one .Apologies for whine !