Anyways I'm still playing as Austria and my computer is very high performing, and I can even switch my computer to a special boost mode, so in addition to playing my computer in gaming mode, running GameBooster additionally as well, and using a 32 gig stick as extra RAM, I'm still getting crashes. At first my campaign plays perfect and then as Austria expands, I start getting the crashes that lead to the loading screen after about 1/2 hour - an hour. I know I can only get about 5-6 of those which occur at the most random times until the game will freeze and I'll have to start task manager and reload the game, but by that time I'm usually too frustrated. I don't think it's the fact I update from 5.1 to 5.1.3 though... Like I said before I didn't even know 5.1.2 came out because the announcements aren't that loud. Anyways thanks for the help, and I don't know why but this forum for the past month has experienced the most lag and server errors I've seen ever.