Tried this last night, after making sure my AA was the same in game as in my ATI Control centre, set my video sttings according to this thread and I went from CTD every 10-15 minutes (since patch) on ATAG to almost two hours on ATAG last night without a crash:grin: plus the games looks lush with these settings..bizarre:!:

Thank you, although I was not misunderstanding about what people mean by a CTD. My game never crashes to the desktop. It stops and the screen freezes. I need to use Ctrl-Alt-Del to get back to a desktop, where I can see the launcher has crashed.

I have been assuming this was the typical experience of a Launcher crash but please advise if not and it might point me towards something I can tinker with.

Cheers,

Septic.

So which these settings are?

There is a screen shot of settimgs on page 1:)

My game rarely Crashes to desktop as such, it usually Freezes and I have to Ctrl Alt Del to Desktop. Sometimes, I get the LE stopped warning box, sometimes I get a logfile with something in it. I use CTD in my posts to describe a 'sudden non useful functioning state'........there you go, SNUFS in future?......:grin:

I would still like to know if anyone else, who normally gets SNUFS, can go on Kampverband13 No1 server, shoot a whole bunch of AI for a couple of hours - and no SSAO + Shadows enabled or required.

Yeah I imagine most people don't actually distinguish between a "crash" and a "crash to desktop". In fact I'm sure from the technical standpoint it's all pretty much the same thing. In the common vernacular a CTD is a crash where there's no error reported/displayed, and you just get the desktop unexpectedly whereas a crash displays an error.

But it's one of those acronyms that someone started using and everyone else seems to have picked up.

Concur, although previously I got the true CTD, but with this patch, it's the freeze/task manager lockup.

I am one of the people who get the freeze/launcher stopped working crash while I play online with the ATAG Server alpha patch, and while playing single player. I have sent many crash logs.

BUT NO MORE IT's FIXED!:-D

I was on the ATAG Server late last night and had no lock-up or freeze screen problems for around an hour and a half of flying then I logged off, after I carefully read all the posts here and gave it one more try.

What I did after appling the 1.6 alpha patch:
AA off
SSAO ON
VSYNC ON
GRASS ON
SHADOWS ON
ROADS ON
FOREST OFF (Yes Forest off not a typo)
BUILDINGS AMOUNT LOW
TEXTURE QUALITY MEDIUM (This one is important if you fly the 109 because if its set to low then I can't see the gunsight cross and circle).

The rest of my settings are set to lowest possible except the special effects feature that shows the Mine shells explode and burning vehicles etc. This is important of course so you can see hits and if the target is destroyed.

Before when I had the crashes all this stuff was off. Now my problem is low frame rates 20-32 because I have an OLDER Geforce GTX 260 1 G Ram, but this FPS is actually an improvment over the 1.5 patch which gave me 10-20 FPS when I had grass turned on and graphic setting high etc.

Hope this helps people how are still having trouble I fixed mine by following these guys suggestions here and it worked. Now I need to upgrade my Video card and I'll be in business

My Rig:
Intel i7 CPU 870 4 cores
Win 7 64-bit
4 GB Ram
Geforce GTX 260 1 G RAM
Driver version 8.17.12.9610
CH Products Fighter Stick, Rudder Pedals, Throttle
Sound Creative X-Fi Audio Processor

OK, on Monday night I had a launcher crash at 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and another one at 30 minutes on ATAG. I had SSAO off, AA off, forest off,grass off, and roads off.
Tonight, I have changed my settings to:
AA off
SSAO ON
VSYNC ON
GRASS ON
SHADOWS ON
ROADS ON
FOREST OFF
And have just flown one hour 40 minutes with NO launcher crashes!

For me, turning on SSOA and shadows have almost eliminated CTD's.

I only play online, and i would get CTD ALL THE TIME with the alpha patch.
I don't think i've played longer than 15 minutes on the alpha patch without a CTD.

After turning on SSOA and shadows, i've now played for two hours before my first crash.