Computer freezes in battle

[LtGreeneyes]

Hello!

I am having a slight issue.   The game works fine in all aspects, except that twice now, when I am in a battle, and not even every battle, just like, randomly, the game will freeze, going to a black screen that I cannot get out of without hard booting my computer.

I am running Windows Vista (64 I think)
intel core 2 quad cpu q9000 @ 2.00ghz
4 gb ram
nvidia gefore 9800M GTX
solid state hard drive (not sure if that makes any difference)

Any other information that I need to include, please let me know!

 

[arcadiazone]

also have this problem from time to time has to do with: Newton.dll

Faulting application name: mount&blade.exe, version: 0.7.3.0, time stamp: 0x4912fcff
Faulting module name: Newton.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x44753364
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00025388
Faulting process id: 0xe14
Faulting application start time: 0x01ca405129baf780
Faulting application path: E:\Games (x86)\Mount&Blade\mount&blade.exe
Faulting module path: E:\Games (x86)\Mount&Blade\Newton.dll
Report Id: 8dd01fe0-ac6f-11de-8845-001a92568ffd

If you press Ctrl+alt+del brings up log on screen and select task manager you close end process for M&B

 

[LtGreeneyes]

I tried that, but it freezes the computer entirely.  alt+f4 does not work any better than alt+ctrl+del.