Crashing during space battles.

[pokket]

So, luckily for me the game runs on vista. However, if I'm playing a space battle game it'll lock up for no reason. Gonna try out disabling sound and see if that helps, but it seems to me that this is a different kind of lock up for most people being that, from what I've read, most people can't load a map at all. I haven't played multiplayer yet, just playing through the story to refresh my memory of the game and so far it runs just fine except when it locks up during space, like I said earlier.

Any solutions to this? From what I've read multi-core processing tends to be one of the problems if this is related to the sound disabling solution. I have Intel Core Quad CPU. I've had problems with this processor before but only on World of Warcraft where it for some reason likes to write patch files as corrupt.

Any help is awesome and I'll give you a hug for it. Thanks ;)

[pokket]

well, son of a gun. I installed my audio driver update, also was realtek but I did it from the Dell website cause I wanted to make sure I got the right one, and it worked. At first I wasn't getting any sound, but I once I gave it another restart and set the default playback output to what it was supposed to be (analog speakers in my case) worked like a charm. It's weird that it messed with space combat like that, but whatever. It works it works :D