I have an antique Dell 733 purchased in 2000 with a recent upgrade to a 512 memory and an ATI 9600 vid card and have never had a serious problem with this game or any other recent title even at the 1600x1200 setting (although a bit staggard framerate in the visuals)...EVER. You sir are either a total novice at the computer or are operating a true shitbox or both. I am amazed at the incessent complaining about operational probs with this game. I maintain my puter on a rergular basis... defrag, viris scan, etc and believe most posted problems are operator incured due to bad puter management and not necessarly software related at least as regards this interesting title.