[rottenbanana]

I only need to leave the game running for 5-30 minutes, and it freezes with either a fully beige or a fully grey screen. The game music keeps playing but no movement/combat sounds, and nothing works. Ctrl-alt-del, alt-F4, nothing but a hard reset gets me back to Windows.

I've traced the problem to be TQ or TQIT, i have both and the problem occurs on both. Not a single other game on my gaming rig causes anything even nearly similar. TQ has the latest official patch, and TQIT has the latest fan-made patch.

Specs: Vista32 home premium / Intel Q9450@2.66 / Asus P5Q / GeForce 9800 GTX / 4GB DDR2@1066. Each and every component has the latest drivers as to this date, and no component is overclocked. The only problem i'd suspect regarding hardware is the onboard Realtek audio, since they often cause problems. But why only with TQ? I have also monitored my GPU temps with RivaTuner, and it never ever exceeds 78 C while playing. 62 C on idle.

The game is awesome, i'd like to keep playing it, but every time i have to do a hard reset my character loses his most recent equipment and map exploration details, everything is shrouded again. Annoying!

Ideas?