If you ram would have errors it would show clearly on screen. But i thought you maybe had an older vga card , then it would be normal that newer drivers wouldn't work to well. But an 9800pro shouldn't have any problems with the latest drivers.

Give these a go:

XP/2000:
http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=F...eme&dwn_id=258

Ok, I uninstalled the driver, and loaded on the ones it came with, and it was having all kinds of problmes, random shutdowns, while just windows was running.

I got a old GeForce MX 440 64MB video card from a friend and installed that, I have been played the game for about 3 hours total without a single problem, tho it is a little laggy at times, it plays just fine.

Any guesses as to why that happened? And what could fix it?

Have you tried the Omega drivers i posted above? But im beginning to think the radeon is faulty , can you test the card in an other pc?

When the problems started I switched to the omega drivers, and the problems kept happeneing.

I think my roomate will let me try it out on his computer, I will try doing that tomarrow, or take it to my college's lab and test it out.

What card would you recomend for a replacement if the card turns out to be faulty? I think next time I am going to try an Geforce, I would spend up to $150 tops for a card, and i only have an agp slot.

Nvidia , AGP , $150 max.. that would be an 6600gt i think:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...rice=&maxPrice=

But if the 9800 pro is indeed defective , then an replacement 9800pro might be a better choice.

Swap out your power supply and see what happens. Might be just that.