Might as well tell my experiences. In 2.1 this was commonplace, but in 2.15 it happens maybe once in a week (if I would play every night).

My system: AMD3000+/32bit single-core, GF7600, 2GB, WinXPHome. Framerates are adequate when I leave some details off, only sudden 180 degree turns in the middle of Mareth Line might cause stuttering. I quit all other programs except firewall/antivirus, desktop manager and such before playing.

The game crashes to desktop usually when I'm driving a tank. In Aberdeen, in a British tank coming towards the central village, as soon as the village should appear from the fog. In Sidi Rezegh, in a British tank coming towards German lines, as soon as the HQ building or hangars should appear from the fog. In El Alamein, in a British tank coming towards the central ridge, just as the base on top of it should appear from the fog.

However, this happens usually after my comp has been running a while, and there might be old processes still cluttering up the memory and causing conflicts even if I have quit those programs. Rebooting and starting "clean" helps - as a matter of fact, I cannot remember when this would have happened to me if I started to play just after rebooting.

Lately, hslan has been cycling this size instead of the 64p one, presumably to "balance" the odds. The result is just a reverse of the 64p imbalance: I've seen one narrow Allied victory, all the others have been all-out Axis triumphs with scores like 350-0. It's a bloodbath already, and adding Axis MGs (even the Italian LMG) to the mix would make it even more lopsided.

One thing that's funny - I don't say necessarily wrong - is that once the first two flags are taken by Germans, the Bofors at Gabala starts firing blindly into the fog, right into German spawn area. (There's the low ridge between Deir and the two forward flags, which prevents that doing the same thing.) Of course, the northern Bofors now in German hands can retaliate in kind. It takes a bit of guessing and a few clips of ammo, but once you get the first kill message, you just leave the sights where they are and keep blasting, since the odds are that more enemies spawn there in the fog (works equally well for both sides).