Ever since the new patch I have been crashing randomly a lot.
My load times have also risen from a sweet 3 minutes to 15 minutes.
I also don't know what half of these things do - trilinear, bloom, etc.
So if anyone can help me out with any info on any of these things it would be appreciated; pretty much I am looking for stability and reduced load time if possible.

Here is a screen of my settings;


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http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ings052711.jpg

Thank in advance

EDIT: my computer stats are:
Intel Core 2 Quad processor (3Ghz i think)
4GB ram
ATI Radeon HD2600Pro graphics card