Moltare

Yep, got the latest drivers for video card and VIA chipset. I'm running it in 800*600 at default adaptor rate anyway, with no other programs running, and turning the various graphical options off has no effect. And my computer can handle games newer than the two I mentioned. It runs both of those perfectly well with sound disabled, which is what led me to believe the sound's a problem. Thanks for your continued support, Moltare

Thanks for the advice, guys, but having installed the latest drivers for both of those it's giving me the same grief. (This with a fresh install of Windows, and a new 80gig hard drive) I've come to the conclusion that it's my sound card doing generic nasty stuff, seeing as Deus Ex runs choppy due to the sound as does Jedi Knight 2...

Apologies: find DxDiagThing.txt attached (didn't like DxDiag.txt). And sadly I've tried reinstalling, and various compatibility modes, and patches, to no avail. [attachment archived by Gobalopper]

I'd be most grateful if anyone had a solution to this to better the official EA line ("Sorry, we don't do tech support for Windows XP")... Emperor installs without a hitch, starts fine, loads a game well enough. But after some period of time (between about five seconds and half a minute or so) it crashes to the desktop, no error message. I've tried everything I can think of to no avail; anyone experienced this and been able to fix it? Thanks, Moltare.