I run SHIII on a piddly 1.2Ghz PIII for crying out loud. No issues, hell I can even host 8 player online games with no probs!
How - Because I dont use onboard bloody vid cards or sound cards and have 4GB of Ram!
IIRC the TU1200 Nvida Gateway xv930 has both, onboard Vid an sound. With only 512Mb of ram your just begging for trouble (I maybe wrong, but I think it does, unless I have my M/B numbers mixed up). What little ram you have is being chewed up for your Vid and your triple cycling your CPU to play the game. I'm not surprised your having drama's.
Solution, grab 1 more stick of ram a vid card and a sound card. Your PC will thank you.
(If I do have the M/B's mixed up, more ram is still a bloody good idea. If fact since your running XP, you really should have more than 512MB of ram anyway. They say a MINIMUM for XP is 512MB, if thats just for the OS what do you think an added drain like a high end game is gonna do to your PC! I always suggest for XP a MINIMUM of 1 GB of ram, its call a CYA Policy [Cover Ya Arse].)
Edit - Hehe, I corrected my lil typo, I said 4MB instead of 4GB - I'd luv ta see XP run on 4MB let alone SHIII :rotfl:
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