Unfortunately a hard crash like that isn't SH3's fault, its either bad drivers or bad hardware.
Can you open the windows event log, and paste in the details of the serious error? There is a code in there that will give you some clues as to what went bang.
Most likely either video card drivers, bad ram, or overheating... in that order of likelyhood.
Try some new drivers (maybe a version or two older, more likely to be slower but more stable).
If that doesn't work, clean dust from your heatsink and fan (cpu and video card) with a brush and vacumn cleaner. If it still crashes, I reccommend you test your RAM.
There is a RAM tester available from microsoft as a bootable CD ISO, thats the best way to test your ram as it runs without any OS on top. There is also a free windows test app out there which isn't too bad, and much more convenient, but close as many apps as possible before running it. If it finds errors then you DEFINITELY have bad ram, but if it finds nothing there is no guarantee that it didn't miss something. Only way to be sure is with an app that comes as a bootable CD or floppy.
Sorry, can't remember the name of that windows tester app. A while back I started getting random bluescreens and corrupted files and it turns out it was bad ram.
I returned the ram, week later same thing. I eventually got some high-quality ram and my pc has been rock-solid stable since. I swore I'd never go for cheap ram again.
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