Thanks for the tips, my video card and driver are recent and are not causing any problems with any other game. Changed the map loading. Problem didnt occur after 30 minuts of playing, however in diplomatic phase (september 1914 2 playing large campaign) it crashed while AI was processing..... Tried ...

Downloaded and installed patch 1.0.4. Game seems to be more stable, but somehow it introduced a new problem for me. Sometime menus (main menu, reinforcements menu etc.) ingame don't open correctly. It seems to load only parts of it. Its a gamebreaker since I have to restart the game. - some parts of...