I had this problem:
http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=163667I still have it. Only, now it only seems to happen in AH. Never anything else. It seems to have gotten worse since 2.05 came out. At first I thought it was just a new optimization issue, but I've got BOTH of them off. Now today I froze up 4 times exactly 30 minutes apart. I was trying to fly frame 3 malta and got 2 hours of NOTHING but climbing to alt and then a PC freeze-up *every* 30 minutes. That's 4 times in 2 hours, for a total of 2 hours wasted, no fun had, no enemy even seen.
I have turned everything off in AH. I have got 256 textures going. I've got everything in my vid card properties turned OFF or to PERFORMANCE, and this still happens regularly. It's not a matter of "if" anymore, but of "when" it happens.
I run HL2 demo at full settings with little slow down (and yes, on a DX8 card, no less!). And AH can't run for 30 minutes without locking up not just AH but my entire PC.
I'm freakin' annoyed as heck here.
DXDiag shows no problems. Windows shows no problems. It's not overheating (have had the side off my case with a fan blowing in, just in case, but no parts are warm to the touch except vid card, and with the fan on it that never gets too hot, especially since it really can't do much anyways.
Have listed before, will list again.
P4 2.66GHz 533MHz FSB.
ASUS p5p800
1x512MB ram
SB Audigy PCI.
AGP GeForce 4400Ti 128MB (no FSAA no Aniso, set to Performance, vsync set to application controlled) running Det 61.77.
AH running:
1280x9xx resolution.
Textures 256
All effects turned off (had these on before 2.05, never had thsi problem then).
Hardware Vertexes set to on, it's been this way since this checkbox has existed, I don't think that's the problem.
skins download enabled. Skins on other planes enabled (but I never freeze when planes enter the area, so it's not a skin display issue)
sliders set about 2/3 from left to right (closer to the "near" end of the specturm)
EDIT: Optimization for terrain and objects set to OFF. At first I thought these were the problem, but it was just random luck that for a while I didn't lock up as often. Since 2.06 I have only logged off willingly a handful of times, and all other times I've frozen up. The times I logged off was after only ~20 minutes of flight.
This cannot continue. This needs to be remedied.