Tonight the fight at A5 (ground fight) was going great until the external sounds started to cause freeze ups. After several minutes of fighting I began to experience freeze ups, then it would clear, then it would freeze up again. I decided to try and make it back to land my TIGER. This was made very difficult by constant freeze ups, frame stutters from hell, and then the inevitable CTD (actually it was a crash to sky, because I didn't get as far as the desktop).
Your external gunfire routine owes me a Tiger.