In that game I remember being absolutely BLOWN AWAY the first time I bailed out and the battle kept going around me in my parachute.
I have a feeling that for many 40 something pilots "Their finest hour" put them on the road they are still on now
Furbs, I am in the same boat for the beta patch. Initially 5-10 mins CTD
I reverified the retail patch through Steam, defragmented , cleared cache, reapplied beta patch: Instead of rapid CTD, big freezes every couple of minutes (~0.5sec) but then it recovered. CTD at around 30 minutes flying into a big furball.
Tried Depthbits=64 and turned off grass. No freezes, smooth operation. Flew to France, killed a 109 but still got CTD over France before Spit petrol ran out.
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