Re CTD's - just info we've picked up on over the past few months:
1) Seems to happen mostly online (Peaveywolf's experience notwithstanding)
2) Happens mainly in high intensity situations ie dogfights (extremely aggravating)
3) multi-engine formations over prolonged periods of flight. ie. bombers ingressing/egressing from mission targets (extremely aggravating)
4) happens in high-graphical load situations such as low level flight over terrain
5) happens on moonless nights when Jupiter in conjunction with Venus
What to do?
1) wait for the patch. Devs acutely aware of this memory leak problem and should have it resolved.
2) erase 1C Softclub Cache folder (including Shaders folder within) prior to eac session
3) after each sortie exit then re enter CoD
4) don't fly bombers in intense dogfights low over terrain, particularly in formation
No guarantees to any of the above reducing or eliminating CTD's. No one seems immune. I usually fly online daily ~2 hrs and, following step (2) only, have suffered only one CTD (screen freeze, actually) this year. Just as I was lining up on a 110 flying low over the Dover coastline. No, really....I was. Very aggravating.
Some use Memory boost utilities with reported success; can't hurt, I suppose. No one seems immune, powerful machines/low end machines all seem to get hit. Can't hurt to have lots of RAM with Win 7 64 bits to use it; but I'd wait for the patch before spending money on this reason alone, IMHO.
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