Rejoice brothers and sisters for dare I say it, I have found the recently-occuring crash to desktop causes. The 3 perpetrating files have been caught red handed and will be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law. Additional stuff: Almost all particles have been optimized, the game now runs exceptionally smooth with minimal loss of graphical quality, this was done in an attempt to find the CTD since I initially thought the game was strained too much, this didn't turn out to be the case but it's a nice side effect anyway. The Nebulon B now has targetable hardpoints again, 2 lasers, 1 turbolaser and an engine hardpoint. The AAF now also has an engine hardpoint. Both ships now have fires to display damage. ISD deathclone now has fires. Victorys deathclone has been tweaked for the thousandth time and now works*tm*. Engine glows for fighters have been fixed, the Empires ones removed since I like TIEs better without them. New ion cannon particles, they look quite fancy but don't have start and death particles yet. Frigates and capital ships now spawn less fighters overall. And more smaller less noticable stuff.