Your system is better than mine, yet I rarely get launcher.exe CTD's or screen freeze-ups even though I fly online almost daily for 1 - 2 hours. One thing I do prior to a session is a little chore: i go into C:\My Documents\Librairies\1C Softclub\IL2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover and delete the Cache folder. Completely. (This also deletes the Shaders subfolder within). Have no fear - a new Cache folder is created the instant you fire up CoD to play. Since I started doing this: no crashes. A couple of times I deliberately neglected to delete this Cache folder and within several sessions I began to get the dreaded launcher.exe crashes again. Dunno why this hasvworked for me and others online, but it does. This is not my original idea; I got this by suggestion off another forum.
Other performance tips:
Go into C:\Programs (x86)\Steam\Steam Apps\Common\Il2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover. Locate the launcher.exe file, right mouse click on it, then select Properties. Click in the little box (to make a checkmark) beside "Disable Desktop Composition". Click Apply/OK
If you are ofthe many that have downloaded earlier beta patches.....heed this well: Go to your PC's Windows Control Panel to Install/Uninstall and use this to completely uninstall Cliffs of Dover from your PC! Then check your C drive to ensure it's totally gone - delete any CoD file remaining.....including the 1C Softclub folder. Then open Steam and have it reinstall a fresh (and uncorrupted) copy of the latest retail version of Cliffs of Dover. I was a little skeptical until I tried it. HUGE improvement in smoothness, stability, and even in framerates. (You may wish to first save and rename your confuser.ini file temporarily to plug back into your fresh copy of CoD to retain your joystick settings -- such a pain otherwise to remap all those controls back to your joystick!!!!)
Good luck!
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