Hi Loremaster,
thanks for the suggestion. Since Windows was "managing my virtual memory" on my IDE (and fragmenting it!) the game was crashing so I reverted to usual setup - drive f: is the SCSI-2 where IE dumps it's temp files, windows has the temp dir and the OS is allowed to "Manage Virtual Memeory". Thus, the setting seemed to have no effect. However, I found the problem!
In the Matrox control panal if you remove the check mark from "Draw Colored curser with Hardware" and "Device Bitmap Caching" the crashes seem to cease. I don't know why, but it works!
Thanks,
Sam, smyling again
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