Hey BandofBrothers, saw a post about random crashes etc & you recommended memtest86. Ran it last night, one bad byte in a 512mb stick. You'd think that one measly byte out of 500 million is pretty good odds, but nooooo

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Anyways, replaced that stick and the damn game runs like a champion. Woot! (btw runs really
really well with 1.5gb ram !)
Thanks for the tip man!