I won't say for sure that it isn't the patch but based on the evidence I don't think so. For one the patch you mention is a different version and second, while I have come across numerous bugs in this game that particular one isn't one of them. I can't say for certain as I didn't fully test it, I'll explain why further down.
Also, I completely forgot to mention the non broken game related bugs in my first post. I can start the games just fine but it will freeze seemingly at random and very often, two to three times average on a world war length game and usually at least once during shorter games. I'm usually pretty attentive and know exactly what I was doing at the time and I can honestly say there is no pattern. Sometimes it happens when I rewind a move, sometimes when I'm fiddling around with moving and unloading/loading transports, sometimes just when I'm scrolling across the map and even sometimes when I go afk for a few minutes to get some food or watch TV. I'll return to find the game frozen without me having done anything. The majority of the time I can simply ctrl-alt-del (alt-tab and windows key do not do anything) but several times I've had to actually hit the reset button as nothing was responding.
As if that wasn't bad enough I highly suspect this game of messing up other seemingly unrelated areas of my computer. I started to experience strange things such as frequent freezing on the windows loading screen, problems burning and even playing cd's and several really strange bugs with winamp. The graphics would mess up fairly often and it wouldn't play any music. At first I didn't even remotly suspect Domination. I tried a few things to no avail so I reformatted my pc (had been a while so wasn't a bad idea anyways) and the problems went away. I thought nothing more of it for over a month. At that point I checked for new patches and not having seen any I posted this thread. After reading Mrakobes reply and a few other threads (including the one about starforce) I reinstalled the game without patching it to see if that would resolve the broken games. Immediatly after reinstalling the game I started to experience the exact same problems with windows loading, winamp (only when I ran it at the same time as Domination, an obvious indication that the game was at fault) and my cd-rw. Not only that but I was still running into all the same freezing bugs in Domination which seemed even more frequent without the patch. Honestly I didn't play far enough into the game that time to get to any of the points where the games broke. I played 4 missions into the PL campaign and 2 of the PL career maps before I reformatted again out of frustration. Uninstalling the game alone did not make all the problems stop.
That brings me to where I am today and hopefully you to the end of this lengthy post. Sorry if I was a bit long winded but I don't want this to be just a whine thread. I want to show just how bad things are. In it's current state this game is completely unplayable for me and many others if the new posts popping up are any indication. Unless the people at wargaming stop ignoring us and tell us where they stand on these issues and that they intend to resolve them soon they have lost me as a customer.
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