12hrs Trying To Play SH5 Sheesh Almighty

[Defiance]

Hiya,
The game crashes

Sometimes the screen will freeze then unfreeze, more often it freezes, goes black, and i get a sound freeze like "click click click" forcing me to hit the pc reset button

As i say at best i can manage the intro/choosing game options/start new career/get woken up/go speak to captain/sink ship just off the bow

I am still trying cat 10.1 with xfire disabled, AA and AF set to x4 in cat panel and i also choose CAT AI to advanced - MIPMAP on high quality - Vertical refresh Always ON - AA on Quality and Triple buffering on

In game option i choose high graphics and leave all else

In sound i uncheck the music

Think that's a bout it

Ohh just had the sound loop lockup again, but did again manage to sink the ship right on the bow

So summary, at best i get to sink the ship with a few random freezes, at worst i get a freeze that then starts a sound loop sounding like click then a pause then click over n over

Will now try cat 10.2 again with no xfire running, then i only have the 3 variants of cat 10.3 to try

Long winded but hopefully someone can help me get this working

Cheers

Def

PS: Gonna try in xp compat-mode before i try cat 10.2