Agreed.

Yep. I cant even play 1946 anymore.

Well said Sir, well said.

deeply agree on all accounts.

And yet there are many of us that have not had a crash for weeks. I fly every day for about 3 hours and my settings are pretty much maxed out. No crash or freeze for weeks.

System specs and settings may be an issue for some.

That doesn't mean it's not a major issue.

I have an i7. I have a 580 GTX. I have 12gb of RAM. I still get a game crash once every two nights of playing. Usually when I forget to restart the game between sorties.

I think my system is pretty good. This is a bigger issue than someone not having a decent enough computer.

Oh, I've even reduced my graphics settings in some areas to see if it helps. Nope.

That's great that you are having good luck, I assume you mean online flying.

There are enough users having this issue across many different hardware configurations that it is not simply a matter of lowering graphics settings.

http://www.google.com/search?ix=heb&...iw=853&bih=400

Unfortunately if the problem was consistent accross all systems then it would be easier to isolate and fix. Intermittent or non consistent errors are exponentially harder to find and correct.

For ages I had issues with the original IL-2, ROF, Call of Duty and a-10 crashing to desktop and it ended up being a CODEC setting for FFDShow. Putting my games on an exclusion list and it solved the problem.

Touch wood, I'm haven't had the CTD issue in CoD

Wiat what? What? you did what and never got a CTD... :mad:

Tell us more you mad fool~! :-P

I'm a member on a forum with 160,000+ members, and there is an ongoing CLOD thread. The typical discussions are... (in order of most coverage).

1. "What's wrong with the people on the banana forums?"
2. "Did you see what they asked for? Who would even care about that in a flight sim?"
3. What are the Dev's thinking? Do they think the 1C forums represent the majority of fans?
4. When are they going to add some content, make CO-OP creation easier, etc?
5. WHAT!?! Battle of Moscow? Are they ever going to finish Cliffs of Dover (the game content, not the engine).

Every time someone new posts in that thread asking, "Hey, should I pick up CLOD?" They invariable end up getting DSC-A10, or Rise of Flight, or one of the other flight sims out there. I think that Cliffs of Dover is great for the flight sim Genre because so many people either get fed up with it, or are told not to buy it that they end up getting a different game instead.

And it's not like that thread is full of arcade players. There are actual real pilots, people who do vatsim in FSX, and people who can start up the Blackshark or A-10 without having to once refer to any manual. They all agree, CLOD is not fun as is, and it has nothing to do with crashes or FPS.

Then again they're not the kind of people to "scream like a little girl" when they see the window framss in the new buildings.

Good post Speculum and I agree, the banana is a separate entity all together from the rest of the sim community. Like an isolated island where animals have developed "differently" from species found on major continents.:) Oh! also regarding my post you mentioned at the end there, it's the second time I've had to explain I was being sarcastic, I guess sarcasm doesn't translate so well onto internet forums eh?:)

My sqd mates agree, we have all brought CLOD but dont play it, we all WANT to play but the non existent BOB content and problems are just too much trouble and were not really interested in DFS's, we want online wars and COOP's.

Were all waiting for CLOD to become a BOB simulation, at the moment its just not, its a online small number, low level engagement over the sea, with BOB planes.