:-/ Hi All. I recently purchased Emperor: Battle for Dune. However, I experience strange lockups, in the middle of gameplay. It will just totally freeze, and all I can do is restart the computer. Now I have heard that there are some problems with the VIA Chipset, Soundblaster Live! and AMD CPU's. This is my config: ABIT KT7 MB with 800 Mhz Duron, not overclocked. Runs on latest available BIOS. Soundblaster Live!, runs on latest drivers from Creative Windows 2000, Service Pack 2, Latest Windows Update Files. Hercules 3DProphet II MX (Geforce 2 MX) with the latest NVidia drivers (v21.81) VIA v1.33 drivers (latest stable) Emperor: Battle for Dune has got the latest patch that is available. The thing is, I have not stability problems at all with this system. Games like Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament, Quake 3, Settlers 3, Settlers 4, and Half-Life run without any problem at all. Windows 2000 runs very stable, and runs days without rebooting. In fact, Emperor: Battle for Dune is the very first lockup problem I experience since I installed my system in November 2000, so it MUST be a combination of Emperor, and maybe some of my hardware/software. I just can't figure out what! I spend a full night updating virtually every hardware component to the latest drivers, upgraded the BIOS, and lowered all graphical detail to low, and 640x480. I also disabled the hardware options in the advanced graphics options. The spooky thing is that everything works picture-perfect, exept Emperor. Can anyone here shed some light on this? I'm getting desperate.....
