"CTD" but game still running - no crash.

[Strike]

Weird...

Sometimes when flying CoD and viewing certain high-detailed scenarios such as a bomber formation or many planes in the air at the same time. My GPU will be under normal operating conditions, the FPS smooth and screen freezes for 1 second, goes black and brings me to windows. The game keeps running in the background (I can still fire my guns and control it, swap views but I cannot get the game to load up the graphics again).

All I see is my windows desktop.

If I hit ESC it brings me back to the game menu instantly, but if I click "FLY" again, it goes back to desktop. Really strange.

Only way to get back ingame is to restart the game.

[lbuchele]

Originally Posted by Strike

Weird...

Sometimes when flying CoD and viewing certain high-detailed scenarios such as a bomber formation or many planes in the air at the same time. My GPU will be under normal operating conditions, the FPS smooth and screen freezes for 1 second, goes black and brings me to windows. The game keeps running in the background (I can still fire my guns and control it, swap views but I cannot get the game to load up the graphics again).

All I see is my windows desktop.

If I hit ESC it brings me back to the game menu instantly, but if I click "FLY" again, it goes back to desktop. Really strange.

Only way to get back ingame is to restart the game.

That's EXACTLY what happens to me sometimes.
No idea what to do ,probably a driver issue,I'm using the latest nvidia beta driver(270)

[Strike]

Now I'm getting this error more often, without bombers in sight.

Suddenly screen goes black, shows desktop.. If I hit esc, it takes me to the ingame pause-menu. I have to quit the game and start it up again to play again. No graphics drivers crash during this event.

Drivers 270.51

Good FPS some settings low and others high. Happens both when in low settings and high settings, especially when viewing multi-crewed bombers..

[jdbecks]

Same problem for me also, but only since the last patch, pre patch it run without a single CTD.

my system specs:

Q9650 @ 3.6
4gb ram
Nforce 780i
GTX 470 2gb
Vista 32

I tried the latest beta drives and the latest offical drivers, I have seen somewhere it might be an issue with Microsoft Framework .4?

[Strike]

Yeah now I finally saw an error message saying that the Nvidia display driver detected a crash of the Nvidia OPENGL driver, telling me I need to exit the 3D application for it to be restored.

Weird, also crashed less pre-patch...

Tried both latest stable and beta drivers to no success!

[jojovtx]

I still have this issue. Matter of fact just happened yesterday. My Trackir 5 crashed as well stating some sort of opengl error.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by Strike

Weird...

Sometimes when flying CoD and viewing certain high-detailed scenarios such as a bomber formation or many planes in the air at the same time. My GPU will be under normal operating conditions, the FPS smooth and screen freezes for 1 second, goes black and brings me to windows. The game keeps running in the background (I can still fire my guns and control it, swap views but I cannot get the game to load up the graphics again).

All I see is my windows desktop.

If I hit ESC it brings me back to the game menu instantly, but if I click "FLY" again, it goes back to desktop. Really strange.

Only way to get back ingame is to restart the game.

If you leave it for a while, do you get a message similar to "Display Driver nvlddmkm stopped responding, has successfully recovered"?

If so it could be a conflict with a video player codec like Klite. To fix this you'ld need to run ffshow and put the game on the list of applications NOT to use the codec.

Cheers