I have been having a similar problem - first orange ball of flame explosion I see - the game locks up and I boot, I have now been entering the game, up a Flack panzer, jump to gun - zoom on a hanger - fire a shot - see explosion-lock up, relog and everything is fine, figure it is a graphics loading problem , i only have a 64mg Nvidea card , so it works for me, and so far that seems to get me back into the game faster
NwBie