[Mourbrym]

Yup, same with me. I've never finished the P&N game because of it. I figure it's because I'm on a laptop with a 16 meg video card hardwired into it and the maker discontinued that graphic card, so no driver updates. If you find a fix, let me know.

I'd start with making sure you have the latest patch, then update your video drivers.

I've found several workarounds.

1st. if the crash happens in systems your moving through, you can use the cheat ~warpmap systemname~ where system name is the destination star system.

2nd. I save the game in a seperate file before visiting my contact. If I can't workaround the crash, I go back to before I accepted the mission and do a couple of trade or mercenary missions. sometimes it clears up over time.

3rd. there's also a cheat that let's you skip the mission you're on, can't remember it though.

this got me as far as the first few missions into the 3rd campaign.

Good luck