I'm right at the beginning of the game and as soon as I leave the Hanger in the Hovercraft to replace the engine's, the game closes right there without any error message. I'm not sure if it's an issue with my PC, an AMD XP 1300/1.15Ghz 256 MBs RAM and a Geforce 2 MX. As far as I know the Geforce 2 MX is the only thing that doesn't fall into the preffered hardware catagory. Windows XP, Directx 9b, Very Recent NVidia drivers (52.something).

Sounds to me like your geForce is the problem. If you insist on running the game, make sure...

- turn off antialiasing in nvidia control panel
- turn off anisotropic filtering in control panel

these will cause screen corruption.

Also, you might want to make backups of your savegames, and then try applying the 1.1 patch, it has some general optimisations and speedups that might help.

It'll also be an idea for you to try running the game with BARE minimum visual effects, so in the BG&E settings application, turn everything down and try again. Also try running the game at 640x480. If it runs fine, then you can always try increasing one setting at a time until you start crashing... then you know what's the problem.

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Patch worked. Game is running nicely now, haven't had a single crash during about 6 hours worth of play. Thanks.

What was that did you just say 52.something for your drivers and that they are the very latest...I think not you click here right now for an upgrade.

I'm using these with my Geforce 3 Ti200 and they work great.

[This message was edited by Seyiji on Fri April 16 2004 at 04:14 AM.]