Well thanks for getting back to me, but i am still getting that though a little less then before. First off i did try lower settings, but i am not going to play in software or 640x480, i didnt put this system together to go back in time. As for smoothness that i have been keeping off and it dose seem to help some and i have tried D3D,and DirectDraw and i can play for a few hours and then poof to desk top just like before or a few times it happened right after i started up from a saved game. And yes i have the CD in and no its not a hacked saved game, and i have also skip the test as it is i cant run the test when i am playing in D3D.

As it stands right now the only thing thats running in the background is my motherboard monitor and i cant see that being a problem, and i didnt have any anti-virus programs running at the time i was playing.

When it comes to 16 bit i have been running all my games in 16 bit, i do a lot of work with map editors for other games and some of them will only run in 32 bit and i also have a few then will only run in 16 bit so i do go back and forth between both a lot, but so far i have not forgot to change over YET.

As for FAQ
5) Problem: Random crashes

I have all the latest drivers and SP1 is in for XP and i keep up to date with all crits. BTW i didnt load any games on here untill i had all of the drivers, also being that this is only 2 weeks old, it dont have alot of trash on it like my other PC did when i first got the game lastyear.

Also before i installed this i defraged D:Drive (thats where this is) as i do whenever i load a new game not really sure if that ever helped any, but i got in the habit of doing that years ago and still do it today. I did a scandisk lastnight before i started playing again and there is nothing wrong there.

As for the last 2 in there, i have over 70gigs of free HD space on D:Drive where DD is. I have full read/write access to the folder where DD is.

Turn down the windows hardware acceleration of the sound driver down by one notch, i had this done already and keep it low.

As for error.txt i have not seen one as of yet but will post if i do see one and whats in it.

One thing i will say is that 60% of the time it crashes or more seems to take place when i am in my inventory screen, either buying, or selling, or just looking at stuff that the Merchant have to sell. A few times when i was running, or walking it would crash. And so far that i can reacall only 2 times in battle which btw is why i am back here now, i had 10 scorpin traps running around the orc camp and was getting some great EXP and POOF back to desk top yet again now i was laying back so i didnt really see much other then the EXP comming up on the screen when they killed something and at that time i was only going for gold that was dropped not picking up weapons or armor unless it was really good.

What i dont get is that i am not doing anything thats really taxing my system to cause a crash when playing, and with playing some of my other games, over the past 2 weeks i have not had any problems with them and some of them demand a lot more resorces then this game, at lest thats the way i see it.

Other games i have on here right now.

Rise of Nations
Warzone 2100
Postal 2
UT 2003
GTA Vice City
Neverwinter Nights

One thing i may do is load Throne of Darkness and see if i have any problems with that being that both are running the same type of game engine for the most part.

Thanks 4nE