On the fourth tutorial mission, as soon as it pans away from the enemy troops and begins to focus on my own, it pauses for a moment before locking up the entire machine. The screen goes black, and bursts of static can be heard in the headphones. Have you guys seen anything like this? I'd really like to start playing MA for real.

could you please send ma.log and DxDiag.txt files to me(vadim@wargaming.net)?

I went ahead and used the official support form, as well - I just wanted to know if it was something you'd heard of.

sure, we are seen problems like this. Usually such problems caused by
1) Old drivers (it is not your case)
2) Overcklocked GPU or CPU
3) Bad hardware (using AGP 8x video card with old motherboards)

How often Massive Assault locks you PC? or this happens only in one tranning scenario?

After the issue in the tutorial, honestly I was afraid to start putting real time into a World War or something

I think I've got it working right now, no worries! Uninstalled and re-installed the drivers, and I think we're good as new. Strange that an issue didn't manifest itself in some other game, but it seems to be worked out now.

Let us know if you meet any new problem.