Hi everyone - I had this problem and registered to post my fix:
In my case, it was the latest update to AMD's GPU drivers. Turning off fullscreen did nothing, turning off vsync made it work for a while, but the game still crashed randomly.
Myself and a friend both have AMD Radeon GPUs (different models, a year or so apart). I have Catalyst 11.12, and it works out-of-the-box on my system. My friend is running a similar Radeon card (different cpu,board,etc) with fully updated 12.3 drivers, and his copy of Flight crashed as described. He downgraded and now everything's peachy.
Use Catalyst Control Centre > Information > Software to find out what version you have.
So therefore:
- Uninstall Catalyst 12.3 from Add/Remove Programs or Programs and Features.
- Download an earlier version (11.12 works here, and its from 2012/12/13, so not that old)
- Install earlier version
Earlier versions are linked on AMD's site at the bottom of each driver download page, or right here:
Win 7 64bit: http://support.amd.c...iw_vista64.aspx
Win 7 32bit: http://support.amd.c...iw_vista32.aspx
Win XP: http://support.amd.c...deonaiw_xp.aspx
If the older drivers break compatability with newer games or cards, you can always update them again. I checked the driver changelogs and nothing too catastrophic has changed (they just added nasty speckles to Skyrim it seems).
Good luck till someone from AMD or Microsoft fixes it!