The problem though is, I have a rare case in which my Vid card has no real support for this game (Geforce 8500). I've done my research and it's a very weird problem. It has to do with Vista's nasty support for OpenGL. I can run the game, but it is guaranteed it will crash at a random moment, only the game crashes though. Its only older games or backwater games like this one (I mean no offense). And I don't know about you, but I can't stand building something huge, then losing it because this nasty situation went into effect.
Before any elitist buttheaded type try to talk stuff about maybe my computer sucks.. no... It does not and no other games cause this problem on my computer. Like I said, I did my research and from what I've read, I could have a computer 4 times the power of this one, and the same problem will occur. The only hope is if somebody makes drivers for Geforce considering older and backwater games, but that is NEVER going to happen. The newer games run fine, and never had any problems and never will. The simplest solution would be to install XP and run it to play this game, however at the moment that is not an option.
So, I may still play the game, but don't expect to see me on all the time, because it will eventually piss me off if I keep losing the game, seeing as the crashes are completely random and unpredictable. I could go a day without crashing at all, or have 5 crashes in 1 hour. My main solution around this is to run a dedi then join it and the server will never go down, just me crashing then I can come right back, but that is a huge pain especially if the server filled up and I can't come back.
Anyway, someday when I have lots of time on my hands, I will try to solve this problem. Otherwise, I'll try to show up every now and then if time permits it. This is just to show why I have given up on this game in the past. It's a very annoying problem.
Also, do not try to post me "solutions" because you think you know the answer. There is No answer and anyone trying to tell me there is, just is showing me that they cannot read my post. Don't worry I don't hate everyone, otherwise I wouldn't be trying to come back now would I? I only hate some people, and they know who they are.
