After playing for say 10 minutes game freezes
 

After playing il2 storm of war for say 10 or 15 minute the game freezes

could this be down to insufficient memory or do I just need to bite the bullet and upgrade to a new pc ( if it`s just a matter of adding some memory to keep me going for now it will give me more time to save for an upgrade )

I copied and pasted my pc specs from belaric as follows --- gaphics card is the nvidia 275 ( bit confusing below )

Operating System System Model
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (build 2600) Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
3.00 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
4096 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-N680SLI-DQ6
Bus Clock: 333 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. FA 05/03/2007
Drives Memory Modules c,d
650.13 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
316.13 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182D [CD-ROM drive]

SATA WDC WD15 SCSI Disk Device (150.04 GB) -- drive 0
SATA WDC WD50 SCSI Disk Device (500.11 GB) -- drive 1
USB Flash Memory USB Device [Hard drive] (1.03 GB) -- drive 2 3072 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A1' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A2' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A3' has 1024 MB
Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 0) 150.04 GB 4.24 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 1) 500.10 GB 311.89 GB free

Network Drives

Controllers Display
NVIDIA nForce 590/570/550 Serial ATA Controller (3x)
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
[B]NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 [Display adapter][/B]
ACR Acer X243W [Monitor] (24.0"vis, s/n LAG040084300, September 2007)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
GIGABYTE GBB36X Controller (2x)
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller ASUSTeK Virtual Capture Device
Creative SB X-Fi
Communications Other Devices

1394 Net Adapter
Marvell Yukon 88E8052 PCI-E ASF Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Physical Address: 00:1A:4D:46:B9:46
Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
primary Auto IP Address: 192.168.1.66 / 24
Gateway: 192.168.1.254
Dhcp Server: 192.168.1.254
Physical Address: 00:1A:4D:46:B9:44
NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
Physical Address: 00:1A:4D:46:B9:40
NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller #2
Dhcp Server: 192.168.1.254
Physical Address: 00:1A:4D:46:B9:42

Networking Dns Server: 192.168.1.254
Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Asus Video3D Device
HID-compliant consumer control device (2x)
HID-compliant device (3x)
USB Human Interface Device (2x)
HP Officejet 7300 series
GoFlight Virtual HID Keyboard
HID Keyboard Device (2x)
HID-compliant mouse (2x)
NVIDIA Network Bus Enumerator (2x)
Root Enumerator
Saitek Magic Hotkey Device
Saitek Magic Keyboard
Saitek Magic Mouse
Officejet 7300 series (DOT4USB)
USB Composite Device (2x)
USB Mass Storage Device (2x)
USB Printing Support
USB Root Hub (2x)

kind regards

paul woods

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/forumdisplay.php?f=189

Is the forum you want for IL*2 Cliffs of Dover. This is the forum for IL*2 1946 (and earlier).

XP seems to be a problem, and you can't add more than 4GB (which you already have) without changing to a 64 bit O/S.

With that behaviour I'd suspect a too weak Power Supply Unit or a heating issue.
Try flying with case all open to see if you get a longer duration.

Not good at all... Windoze has a habit of losing it, if the system drive doesn't have enough free space. I'd leave a minimum of 20Gigs (100Gs is good) on C:

Besides the Virtual disk space, windoze opens a load of temporary files that it doesn't always delete..