decided to test the official arrow/catapult/spells fix with a game on my top win7 64bit system with one of my custom sov's(hacked the xml for super strength & mana), set up a tiny map 5 AI, went wrlike tech patterns( weapons to advanced ranged, then into magicuntil was getting the advanced magic upgrades,then stared researching the civil tree, all while capturing any towns of ai's that attack any of my towns.

played to turn 264 when  an OOM happened, added the saves & dxdiags to the zip

when I have time I will test with my usual test map (LARGE size) to compare the stability improvements

harpo