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I'm thinking too that Lugaru is not the problem, except for one thing: I have never had this problem with any other game, and I play lots of them. I'm talking hundreds. I would think the problem would arise at least once somewhere else, it's really puzzling me. This is becoming more of a determinati...

Hmmm, useful tip, that...

Interestingly enough, rather than an error message (or a restart), I'm now presented with a blue screen. Not the useful sort either - just solid blue.

I'll be attempting the partition repair tomorrow when I find my XP CD.

rudel_ic wrote:Hehe, what if both partitions are crappy?

That's a reality that would be so upsetting I'd rather just substitute my own. Here's hoping...

Was more asking "does the fact that it still didn't work mean the towel method would be pointless"... I'm not too afraid of trying it out. And as you say, it certainly couldn't hurt to make sure my partitions are in good health anyway. I'll let you know how it comes out, thanks again for a...

Wow, that is some detailed advice, thanks! I'm about to embark and I do have my towel. First, however, I'll try reinstalling Lugaru on my other physical drive... perhaps that would help things... Fingers crossed, off we go! UPDATE: Well, my ingenious "other hard drive" trick didn't work, s...

Just finished the test - everything came up just fine, no errors at all. I even ran the standard Windows memory test, just for posterity.

And no, I haven't overclocked or tweaked my CPU or video card at all... so I'm afraid I'm out of ideas. And dying to play!!

Ugh, me too... downloading now, I'll let you know how it turns out.

I've searched the entire forum and none of the solutions provided has worked as yet (and it seems that nobody has described quite the same problem): The game runs just fine for a while each time (about 30 minutes at once was the longest I've gotten, it's usually about 5), then at a random point, jus...