New patch hosed my otherwise perfect game!

[Melvish]

With or without mods it always crash after a naval engagement (if i auto-calc it is all ok). This is from brand new game as i've delete all the old savegame files.The patch(+hotfix) have improved the performance greatly, i can now run at the setting the autodetect propose (high) and get decent performance. Clicking on a shipyard can sometime still cause minor lag but this clear up way faster that before). I also now hear the rain on the intro movie. I suspect something is still very wrong with the miles.dll (sound related) and those not experiencing CTD have better sound card that don't use that dll.

I know it not the pc the problem as it is in mints condition (drivers, genuine prog, professional security, etc). It is a laptop although and the sound card is its weak point (Dell pr M4400). i never had prob with any other games (Farcry2, MTW2, EUIII/Rome/VV, Fallout3) since i've got it 6 month ago.

Hopefully CA will respond with a quickfix as fast as when the previous patch was released and it messed up the games for our German speaking friends.