Launcher Crash

[JZG_Winter]

My computer isn't great, but easily meets the minimum requirements. My plan was to buy CLoD, then see what improvements I need to make from there.

I downloaded from Steam, and when I tried to play, got that horrible Nvida driver crashed and restarted message. I could load the game, there was a blank screen for the Pilot and planes, and when I tried to play, got to 100% loading, but the graphics never moved from the splash screen. I could hear comms and aircraft sound, but the game didn't move off the splash screen.

I read the forums, and manually edited the config to direct x 9 - I can now see the pilots and planes in the menu, but when I go to play, it gets to less than 5% loading, and I get the launcher crash.

I have tried all the fixes mentioned so far, short of uninstalling the game and steam, and trying to download it again, and nothing works.

This seems to be affecting a lot of people, yet nothing official on how to fix it.