Same thing here,
Use the patch update and now the game crashes with the following: (online)
White screen... then the windows pop=up that Aces High II had a problem:
(offline) CTD with out any trace at all..
here is the backtrace from on line:
Faulting application aceshigh.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module d3d9.dll, version 5.3.2600.2180, fault address 0x00039501.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 63 65 ure ace
0018: 73 68 69 67 68 2e 65 78 shigh.ex
0020: 65 20 30 2e 30 2e 30 2e e 0.0.0.
0028: 30 20 69 6e 20 64 33 64 0 in d3d
0030: 39 2e 64 6c 6c 20 35 2e 9.dll 5.
0038: 33 2e 32 36 30 30 2e 32 3.2600.2
0040: 31 38 30 20 61 74 20 6f 180 at o
0048: 66 66 73 65 74 20 30 30 ffset 00
0050: 30 33 39 35 30 31 0d 0a 039501..