Game crash to desktop

[Speckled_Jim]

I just installed CoD and have encountered the same problem. Some googling led me to this answer, from a dev. post:

"7. Q: I am running Windows Vista / 7, and my game constantly crashes.

A: You have most likely manually reset your render to use DX9. Cliffs of Dover only supports DX9 on Windows XP. Please use DX10 on DX10-capable operating systems, as switching to DX9 actually reduces performance, in addition to leading to unexpected crashes. "

I had done nothing to my system to specify wither DX9 or DX10. But I did a bit more googling to find out how to be sure that CoD is using DX10, and found this answer:

"Check whether the conf.ini in your 'My Documents\ 1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover' folder contains this line in the [Window] section:

Render=D3D10

If there's a =D3D9 -ish value, try and change it into =D3D10."

I looked in my conf.ini and found no such line. But I went ahead and added "Render=D3D10" to the [window] section. Sure enough, I can now fly without the game crashing. But the game looks worse and runs worse!!

It actually looks decent and runs 50-60 FPS over land without that line in the conf.ini, but I can only fly for a minute or two at most before the game freezes.

With "Render=D3D10" in the conf.ini, I can see grid lines on the landscape, shores and streams look extremely blocky if they are more than 1km away, and I get at least a 10 fps hit.

I would love to be able to run it without that conf.ini. tweak. Anyone have an idea what the problem is?

Thanks

PS-
Win7 64-bit
ASUS P7P55D-E pro mobo
i5-760 @ 3.4ghz
Patit GTX 560ti 2gb
8gb 1600mhz RAM
500gb SATAIII HDD