I've got the same problem. I'm running the 1.6 version with 2gb of ram. I've also increased my page file sizes to 3 to 4 times my physical ram. It seems that the game just gets too big for the available memory and freezes up. I'm also playing a gigantic map but not online.
I have a Dell Inspiron laptop with a Geforce 7900. The latest beta driver from nvidia wouldn't work for me either. The install program told me the same thing that my hardware wasn't compatible. I went to the site laptoptogo video.com and downloaded the same driver but they have modified it to work on laptops (basically they just add the laptops name to a list in the driver file). I installed the driver and amazingly the game worked. I had the same problem with it working for 10 to 15 minutes and
I thank you for your suggestions. I down loaded the beta driver from laptoptogo video.com and manually installed it. Within 15 minutes the installation was complete and so far I am once again able to play Dark Avatar. I'd suggest anyone using a laptop to do the same until nvidia releases a new update. Their web site also includes a step by step manual on how to do this for xp or vista which makes it very easy to do.
I tried to install the latest beta nvidia driver per AVATARS suggestion but the nvidia install program that came with it would not install it. It gave me an error message saying"setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. setup will now exit". I pretty much am giving up at this point. I've either got to decide to install XP on my system, wait for nvidia to release a new non beta driver or not play this game anymore which is too bad as I really like
HELP: I finally got this game to load but it freezes after several minutes of play. I've already had DELL support try to help on 3 different occasions and am rather tired of that. I hope you can help as the game is fine on my other Inspiron E1705 with Windows XP. Here's the error file. Thank you Debug Message: Version v1.50X2 Dark Avatar last updated on: Tue Mar 6 17:59:51 2007 Debug Message: Checking DX Version. Debug Message: *********DXDia
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