Desert Crashing and Sub Lag

[Oxvon]

Hey, been running into a couple annoying problems.

1) Randomly, when I load into the desert it crashes. Only happens when I go into the desert.

2) In the subterranean(?sp) Every 3 seconds, at 100 or so fps, the game just freezes for about 5 seconds, then goes back to normal for 3 seconds.

So players, are you having this issue? did you fix it? how?
and devs, known issue? any ideas? submit bug report?

About my setup:

Is there any info that would be helpful to you?

Play with DX10, Highest graphics settings(Ultra..?).

Running 32 bit Vista Home Premium
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 2.70 GHz
Memory (RAM): 2.00 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

Thanks for your time!

[Garth_of_Sarlona]

The crashing zoning into the desert is because you have your environment draw distance set too high - try lowering it by one notch and it shouldn't happen again.

The regular hitching in the subterranean is due to having environment stencil shadows enabled. Try disabling it. See here for more details.

Garth