I know I am starting this game late, but I just installed it for the first time on my new computer last night and got the 1.34 patch...
When I went to "test" directx mode, I got a blank screen... Direct Draw worked though, so I ran it in that mode... I randomly get crashes to the desktop... However I just reload the latest saved game and off I am again.. it never happens when doing anything special... The game could last an hour without crashing, or last 5 minutes before crashing... Even though the testing didn't work, I just tried directx and the game seems to play fine... haven't played it long enough in directx mode to see if that has any effect on the crashing...
It has been thoroughly frustrating having to save every 5 minutes because of these random crashes.. My system is as follows:
Dell computer- Windows XP home, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro with catalyst 3.9 drivers, 80 gig ata hard drive, dvd drive, cd-r drive, direct x latest version 9.x(whatever number it is now), and 512 megs of dual ddr ram... I play the game in 1024xx768 and have my screen set to 32 bit color(hey, I am also playing Unreal 2!)
Any suggestions would be helpful... After a 5 hour session last night, I had about 3 crashes... about another 5 crashes within 2-3 hours playtime today... I figured that a game released so long ago would have been patched well enough not to crash on me so often!
