Is it the Maps causing crashes?

[HDN]

I've crashed on Ivasion of India, and Burning Moscow. Those two maps have been the worst.

I've also killed much of the voice over sound, and made it through the invasion of midway with no crashes. But on a reload of Moscow, it crashed within a few minutes.

List the maps you've crashed on the most. It seems like it's only certain maps to me. Some play fine, some suck and crash.

[Aller]

Hmm, sounds like you could be right.

But a lot of my crashes has also been when the title game appears, and it writes "Loading Data" below. Surely there's no maps involved there.

[HDN]

I've never had a crash on the opening sequence or launch. Only in game and only on certain maps. I played the Invasion of Hawaii last night for hours, no problems. Loaded Burning Moscow, crash in 2 minutes.

[KingJT1955]

Hi - I like the Game, but hate the crashes as well. Since I have Windows Xp, I went to the support site (http://www.atari.com/us/support), and found a method to eliminate, if not minimize the crashes for the game. To summarize, the article it says to:

1) Get your Latest Video and Audio Drivers.
and
2) Temporarily close your user process services via the Task Manager. This involves using CTRL-ALT-DEL and while using the processes TAB to sort by your user name, then deleting all your processes EXCEPT explorer.exe and taskmgr.exe
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I created a BATCH file to do this in mass, if you are familiar with creating a BATCH file and using it in the command prompt window, or creating a shortcut to it on your desktop, then this will save you time.
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You can see a listing of your current task processes, by typing the command 'TASKLIST /fi "USERNAME eq [Your User name]" ' at the command prompt, this will also give you the PID #, but this number changes per user session. To get your user name at the prompt type in NET USER, you shouls see your logon name there.
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The BATCH file code I used is as follows:
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@Echo Off
taskkill /f /fi "USERNAME ne LOCAL SERVICE" /fi "USERNAME ne NETWORK SERVICE" /fi "USERNAME ne SYSTEM" /fi "IMAGENAME ne explorer.exe" /fi "IMAGENAME ne taskmgr.exe"
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This kills the task in one action.
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additional information about my computer.
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Intel PIV 3000mgz (stock)
ATI 9600 Radeon (stock)
1 x WD 200G
Asus P4P800 SE
Princeton 21" Flatscreen Monitor