Edit: Okay, it seems we've found a solution. It means your video card's having a bit of trouble coping, and this problem can be easily stopped by simply turning down shadows (turning off environment shadows helps a lot and doesn't make the game look much worse), and maybe some other settings if the need arises. Simple as that!
When I start the game, everything works fine - no error messages, no random crashes, everything's cool. But when the game actually starts, (eg gets to the 3D map after restoring a game), there's that Windows "ding" sound, and this error message pops up on the desktop:
The game keeps working for a little while, if I ignore the message and keep going, but then crashes and the computer locks up, leaves me with a big black screen, and I have to press the power button and start it up again to make it work. CTRL + ALT + DEL does nothing when it freezes up. Not even the capslock light lights up!
My graphics card is a Radeon X1600 PRO (latest drivers, updated them an hour or so ago), and I think the problem is in the drivers clashing with one of the game's files, somehow, but I'm no computer tech so I don't really know.
If it makes any difference, the rest of my specs are (to the best of my knowledge): 2.6 Ghz processor, 1.5 gigs of RAM, and that's all I know, really. Sorry.
Oh, and it doesn't give me a chance to send the error report to Microshaft. I mean... Microsoft.
When I start the game, everything works fine - no error messages, no random crashes, everything's cool. But when the game actually starts, (eg gets to the 3D map after restoring a game), there's that Windows "ding" sound, and this error message pops up on the desktop:
The game keeps working for a little while, if I ignore the message and keep going, but then crashes and the computer locks up, leaves me with a big black screen, and I have to press the power button and start it up again to make it work. CTRL + ALT + DEL does nothing when it freezes up. Not even the capslock light lights up!
My graphics card is a Radeon X1600 PRO (latest drivers, updated them an hour or so ago), and I think the problem is in the drivers clashing with one of the game's files, somehow, but I'm no computer tech so I don't really know.
If it makes any difference, the rest of my specs are (to the best of my knowledge): 2.6 Ghz processor, 1.5 gigs of RAM, and that's all I know, really. Sorry.
Oh, and it doesn't give me a chance to send the error report to Microshaft. I mean... Microsoft.