[Renegade 13]

aiken said:
I talked with guys in russian x2 forums and they told me it could be a patch issue. You only should update to 1.4 (latest) from 1.2 Version of the game. Does it crash without latest patch installed?

Another thing they told me is that game, in spite its uncountable merits, is very buggy. They experienced a lot of ctds too.

I remember one issue then game always crushed in particular location at 10:41:51 (local game time). Very odd.

The Version that came on the CD was the UK Version 1.3 (or it might have been 1.2...I can't remember). I installed it, ran it, and that was the first time I got the CTD. I then downloaded the patch, installed it, and got the exact same issue at about the exact same point in loading.

I'm beginning to expect that there may be an incompatibility issue with the game and some of the hard/software on the computer.

Thermodyne, I've already determined that there is a 99% chance that my computer is not OC'd, so I don't think it matters anymore. But thanks a lot for the instructions!

I've downloaded Sandra, run a system report, and found a strange thing...when it was "analysing processes" it hung up and would not continue. Froze, it seems. I disabled the analysis of the processes and it ran just fine and generated a report of my system. Most of which I don't understand! However, the fact that it hung up when analysing the processes tells me that there may be something running in the background that is screwing things up. This seems odd though, as one of the solutions I tried to get the game to work was to disable as many of the background processes as I safely could, and it made no effect. But its still an odd thing...

Thanks once again Aiken and Thermodyne for the assistance.