Frequent post-patch crashes/reboots from game

[Gromic]

Hi Chaps,

I'm also having stability issues since the last patch. Actually two issues.

Aftter a certain time, the game minimizes to desktop and will not resume fullscreen when clicking on the taskbar button unless I push ESC, at which point, it goes back to fullscreen in the game menu. If I then push fly or attempt to start a new mission, the game will again minimize to desktop. I can only quit the game and restart it again. This will give me another hour of airtime after which - rinse and repeat.

OR

After having flown a number of missions, the game will cause a complete reboot of the PC. There is no warning, or any kind of texture tearing, flickering, stuttering etc. that will indicate a reboot about to occur. One minute your flying and the next minute the screen goes black into POST. It also doesn't matter if I'm engaged in combat or picking a virtual nose in cockpit.

I can't point the finger to any overheating issues with my GPU. On a second screen, I have afterburner showing the running GPU stats. Temps never go over 56° on full load and that's with playing over an hour. The used graphics memory does tend to stay at around 95-100% for the duration of flight.

One thing that did catch my eye, was the memory managment of "launcher.exe". While running sysinternals process explorer tool simultaneously with the game, I noticed that "launcher.exe" will never flush used memory after quitting a mission. It just keeps adding another ~400MB per flown mission until it gets to around 2,5GB total allocated RAM. That's when the game either minimizes to desktop or causes a complete reboot.

32bit memory leak issues?


Cheers