The first Issue you described i had too, robtek. Have you OCed your Card? Might be driver related, i remember the infamous " <insert ati driver name here> has stopped working " issue with oced Radeons.

I'm in the same boat as you ...If the wife would let me...haha S!

i dont have CTD's, but i think its simpyl becouse i dont fly this sim for more htan 40 mins without giving up.

Can all those who dont get CTD's or lock ups please post your system spec's, this would help Luthier Im sure.

I recommend everyone posts their system specs in their sigs, it always helps with technical issues. IIRC I think the devs said that they have solved the CTD issue with the new build though.
Maybe you could put yours in your sig Tree.

Well at least we can see that those who dont have lock ups or CTD's are the minority as we thought.

Once in awhile, just had one after zooming + in FMB...was running in XP and the error mess. pointed to a memory problem.:)

I never had a CTD, and it looks like many of the CTD, stutters, and frame rate issues will be addressed in the next patch. Hopefully they will include some fixes to the AI, and Commands, then we will have far more people flying and making offline and online campaigns, and missions with the FMB. We should see a steady improvement in all facets of the sim over time, thru free patches, paid addons, and SDK community made content.

I've never had a piece of software that didn't have a crash at some point.

We can say that for the moment the poll shows those that always get lockups and CTD's are the actual minority.

Always but disconnect rejoin regularly.