I got this error on my other machine after it had been infected by a virus. I also had several trojans. The name of the virus I had was Win32.Sality.aa. All the infected .exe files on my machine gave me exactly the same error you are getting.

Well, I've had to redownload this game since then, but it's been manageable. The odd thing was that I'm pretty good at finding, if not removing, viruses, but I couldn't find a hint of a virus. My HJT log hasn't even changed since I got this computer. But anyway, thanks for the response; I'll assume it's a virus if it starts getting worse.

It isn't the video card that is a problem, it's the video card driver.  As far as I can see from a quick look around the forum, no one is reporting problems with a video card that uses ATI video card drivers.

You should have an awesome gaming experience with that Radeon HD 4870! 

Is there anyone who can offer any insight into this?  I'd love a game at the weekend

Haha, thanks for the reply.  I am on 1.12.  Nothing's overheating or anything.

I've been on other forums and people are still having problems it seems, mainly on Vista x64.

I might dedicate some time to finding the fault tonight.

Could it just be an nVidia issue then perhaps? Maybe it has something to do with SLI.  I'll do some testing later.

Well, I played it for 6 hours straight with no crash because I turned SLI off -.-

Sorry to bother you guys!

Hi all, was kinda wondering if my problem is the same as above. I can start the game and play for 5min up to say 30min then i get tiny squares all over the screen and the computer freezes. Sometimes it goes to bluescreen but not always. But I must restart by using the powerswitch. So it sounds like a graphic problem, so I turn settings down. Nothing changes, so i put the fan on constant speed to keep it cool all the time, in case its over heating. Nothing..... Im using latest graphic drivers and latest patch for the game.

I used to run the game without problems untill i changed to Vista and uppdated my hardware.

Vista Buissnes 64X
Intelcore 2CPU 6400 2.13 GHz
6 Gig RAM

ATI Radeon Sapphire HD4870 512Mb GDDR5 PCI-E

So whats that about turning SLI off

Wow, thats weirdly worded, could you restate that in a way that makes sense.

I have had vista for 1 year and 2 months now and had almost no problems so far, yes vista does suck for the fact it takes more power than xp. The only problem I had ever was a microsoft windows update, it ended up crashing the computer, The only other time my computer went stupid was because I overclocked a little to much.

Here is one fact about windows and computer games , they almost never work together quite right, for example I am playing SoaSE and it randomly crashes, I know this can't be over memory useage because I have 4gb of memory in there, and I know its not a minidump because does not display the message nor I can find the file. This means that under all that coding and processes in windows vista and the computer game, that something didn't mesh to well.

This is a fact of life you cannot avoid in microsof os' and for the most part you get use to it and move on by playing the game again.

edit: One other thing sli is only when you have dual graphic cards that have sli available on them.

Oh I just googled your ati graphics card no wonder why, you have one of the best out there, just like the other guys problem his sli dual graphics cards got in the way

These are my specs:

• Vista 32bit
• AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual COre 5200+ 2.9Ghz (overclocked originaly 2.66)
• Nividia GeForce 8600 GT
• 4gb of ram (I have six but I need to upgrade to 64bit to utilize them)

I wonder if the problem is due to it being a 64bit, cause I play sins, GalCiv 2, Eve, and Civ 4 (only with friends, that ai are to repetitive) on this and never had a lot of crashes after the v1.12 sync bug issues.

-TheDarth

Now then, can we get a solution for Windiws 7 crashes?

Unless it's just me. It crashes right when the cursor shows up.

EDIT: Apparantly 7 does not like 1.05. So much for 7 Deadly Sins.

It's not just you. Windows 7 doesn't like sins.

are you on an nvidia card?

 i'm running w7 64bit w 4gb ram q6600 ati4850 no probs at all

harpo