Yeah, i suppose i was one of the "lucky" ones who only crashed at the mid/late game before (in 1.00 and 1.01 + hotfix), or if the game really started to chug after one or two hours.

Now however, with 1.05 i crash every 5-10 turns or so, no joke. I'm even still at the early game with only 2 villages and a flat empty snow landscape, hardly taxing on the computer. And I'm even playing on just Medium maps, its running worse / crashing more than Large maps did before.
EDIT: actually it was fine last night, when i just had downloaded 1.05, i think its the latest mini-hotfix that borked it..

I also noticed how it started to chug suddenly for no reason, then go back to being smooth. And 50% of the times i enter tactical battles, they also chug like nuts, as if i've been playing for 3 hours when i've only been playing for a few minutes. Sometimes it seems to take actions ON ITS OWN, without me even clicking my mouse, such as having my character move or attack when its my turn..
Neither of these issues happened pre-1.05, and if they did it was after hours of intensive play.

Core 2 Duo E6600, Gainward 250GTS (258.96 drivers), 3gb ddr2 ram, Asus Xonar D2 soundcard, some asus motherboard
Win Vista 32bit.

http://www.filefront.com/17234018/debug.err

http://www.filefront.com/17234031/Elemental1_05-2010-08-25T16-12-30-114.zip

http://www.filefront.com/17234033/Elemental1_05-2010-08-25T16-29-59-366.zip