Actually, that problem could be campaign related.
Are you running stock, or a mod?
I used to see that quite a bit, actually, not in ages now have I seen it. More on my old machine, so it also might be hardware---though my old machien was running winXP Pro sp1, and my new machien runs sp2, that might matter).
If there is traffic that is broken within 20nm, when you pop out of map view (which abstracts movement of shipping), to 3d rendering mode externally (where everythign within 20nm becomes "real"), it can crash. Broken traffic includes stuff set to 2 columns, but there is only 1 ship. In 3d the game tries to make 2 columns with 1 ship, crash (sometimes I got BSODs, too).
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