Beyond Good & Evil, and others, crash to desktop

I installed Beyond Good & Evil yesterday and played it for a good 6 hours straight (ouch!) with no problems what-so-ever. Today, however, I loaded it up and it crashes to the desktop every 5 minutes or so into playing. In Event Viewer, I get this error:

Faulting application bge.exe, version 1.0.1.0, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.1106, fault address 0x00001ed3.

bge.exe is, obviously, the game executable, 1.0.1 being the newest patch (I've only played it with this patch.)

I've reinstalled my nVidia drivers as well as DirectX. I've even reverted back from a windows update fix that updated ntdll.dll to 5.1.2600.1217 (KB826939), just to see if it would help, but to no avail.

Any ideas?

Hi Ndove,

Beyond Good & Evil might be responding to a software conflict.
If the problem persists after you've tried these, please post back
and we'll try some more solutions. Good luck! :-)

1. To see if it's a software conflict: Temporarily disable Startup
programs one at a time, starting with Firewall, Antivirus, and ad
blockers using: http://new.jtsoft2001.com/windows/startup.php

You can lookup what a program does before you disable it here:
http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php

2. Run a virus scan at: http://housecall.antivirus.com Afterwards
Download & Run Spybot from: http://security.kolla.de to find any
Trojans, Adware, or Spyware which could clog up your system.

3. Click My Computer / Rightclick the Drive & Choose Properties
/ Run the "Disk Cleanup..." / Next Click the "Tools" Tab and run
the "Error-Checking" and "Defragmentation" utilities.

4. Go to the Windows Update site for everything under Critical and
Recommended: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com Some games
require a patch: http://www.avault.com/pcrl/patches_list.asp?letter=a

5. Update DirectX and your Chipset, Sound, &Video Drivers:
For all Video / DirectX / Game and Hardware Issues, I have a
Checklist of Solutions at: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits/Video.html

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Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

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"ndove" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:087CE0C1-8214-443F-AD92-3D71C08A94B1@microsoft.com...
| I installed Beyond Good & Evil yesterday and played it for a good 6 hours straight (ouch!) with no problems what-so-ever. Today,
however, I loaded it up and it crashes to the desktop every 5 minutes or so into playing. In Event Viewer, I get this error:
|
| Faulting application bge.exe, version 1.0.1.0, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.1106, fault address 0x00001ed3.
|
| bge.exe is, obviously, the game executable, 1.0.1 being the newest patch (I've only played it with this patch.)
|
| I've reinstalled my nVidia drivers as well as DirectX. I've even reverted back from a windows update fix that updated ntdll.dll to
5.1.2600.1217 (KB826939), just to see if it would help, but to no avail.
|
| Any ideas?