Game freezes constantly

[Waaagh]

Hello, 1C forums.

Following problem: after a short search, I´ve not found this adressed, so I´m not even sure there´s other people who have this problem.

The game freezes after an amount of time, stopping dead in its tracks. It doesn´t respond to any commands, but I can alt-tab normally and kill the launcher via ctrl+alt+del. I have recently installed new drivers for the gfx card and updated COD via steam: neither of those had any effect on the freezes. The more planes, the shorter the amount of time til a freeze, however, this is largely unpredicteable. Sometimes the game freezes shortly after starting a mission, sometimes after 20 minutes, sometimes it doesn´t.

It also freezes no matter what background processes are running.

My rig is the following:

Intel Core2Duo E8400 @ 3ghz per core.
Nvidia 260GTX with latest driver set (DLed Saturday)
4 gigs of DDR2 RAM
3 HDs.
Running WIN XP pro edition.


What other information should I provide so you can adress this problem, 1C

Looking forward to the responses. :>

Cheerio

Waaagh

(And no, I´m not angry anymore, but still very disappointed. Some thing seem to have been fixed now, though, so I´m hopeful that this too will be alleviated soon.)