Game Freezing.

[Elvicat]

sounds good, i to have crackling sound tho sometimes the crackling has stoped but when this happens i know it's not long untill the game freezes
oh and here's my specs
win xp sp2
P4 HT 3.2Ghz
geforce 3 ti 500 old but still going tho i'm after a newer card but this will do for now
1Gb dualchannel ram
300 Gb sata hd

[Gothi[c]]

Is this being called when sound is disabled too?

[Bereror]

Is this being called when sound is disabled too?

Unfortunately yes. It is a generic function used to schedule operations that need some time to finish, like animations in the game.

[Mordaan]

Good, glad this was addressed.  Its the same for me.  Always thought it was every hour but 50 mins sounds about right.  Never fails.     I will be glad when this bug is gone! 
And for the record I have a Radeon 9200.

[LARAGORN]

Same prob here but it felt less then 50 min. I also have a radeon card P4 2.8Ghz, Hyperthreading, 1 gig ram and around 200gig of free space.

Is there any kind of a time frame on when we can expect the update ??

[Tarel]

Same prob here but it felt less then 50 min. I also have a radeon card P4 2.8Ghz, Hyperthreading, 1 gig ram and around 200gig of free space.

Is there any kind of a time frame on when we can expect the update ??

No one can tell you when you can expect an update.
The developers will run an update when they are ready for it.
Sometimes it can take weeks, but also it can take months sometimes.

When an update is done, you will notifed about it, when you start Planeshift.
That is the only way to know that an update is running.