and of course at the most ipportune times, so my women say, what are you doing bill? And no, that was not meant to be a singular, which kind of ###### her off, why bring her into it? Omg, what do I do? Argh, hard to troubleshoot, I was doing so well, dam this game, you have to be a brain surgeon to figure it out, hmmm....I fly until I get a ctd or just a normal crash that goes back to the big boys. She looks at me like I'm nuts...., omgLittle does she know that if it was just me I could prolly land the dam thing, argh.my thoughts,billg

I would try removing 1/2 of your RAM (512MB) and see if you still have the problem. If reinstall the RAM.After checking the RAM, I would search for updated drivers for the MOBO controller chips, probably in your case Intel - www.intel.com.Make sure you are using directx9.0b.W. Sieffert