[DRG]

What version of DirectX are you running?

Are you running the most up-to-date driver for your video card?

If you don't know the answers to that ( or don't know where to look to find the answers ) I would suggest you go to the nearset computer shop and ask them to check. What you describe happening is not in any way normal behaviour for the game and in fact you are the first person who has described anything quite like that and also.....before anyone suggests the problem may be he's running WinME.... I run WinME as well and my game is rock solid. ( however.... there *may* be laptop issues with ME I don't know about...) IF you have a good computer shop in your town they may be able to help you sort this out and get you the drivers you need ( if in fact that's the issue here )

Re Running DXDiag----- if you click on each of the tabs and read the info at the bottom and you see one that DOES NOT say " No problems found " then you may have found the problem.

Did you run "Test Direct draw " or "Test Direct 3D" ?

Don