My apologies for bringing yet another crash-related thread into existence. I did my research and scearched this forum top to bottom, electron by electron, byte by byte. But none of the solutions to similar problems helped me.
Here is the problem: Entrenchment is crashing approx 1 hour into a game to everyone's favorite Blue Screen, followed by a restart of the computer. Vista than indicates that there was problem with my graphics driver and offers to check for solutions online. At this point I doubt that is the entire story. It is interesting to note Vanilla Sins runs fine, its just the Entrenchment expansion that does not.
Here are the solutions I have found on the forums, and tried to no luck so far.
1) Updating Graphics Driver - No luck
2) Rolling Back Graphics Driver - No luck
3) Use Particular Driver editions - Found two different NVidia Drivers claimed to work with Sins/Entrenchment here on the forums, neither solved the problem
4) Downloaded Microsoft Patch from http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940105 - Already had it installed apparently
5) Disable Bloom Effects - Never had them turned on (play vanilla sins with it turned off; did double check it was off however)
6) Lowered Other Graphic Settings - tried it, still no luck
7) Attempted various combinations of above - nope
8) Tried all above solutions a second time - still no, but yay for the scientific method.
My Machine is as follows: Dell XPS 410, Intel Dual Core-6600 @ 2.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM, NVidia 7900 GS (currently with driver 7.15.11.6371 installed), and Windows Vista 32-bit. (Windows Experience Base score is 5.3, processor being the limiting factor)
I have a hunch that a new graphics card might be the solution (mine does only have 256mb of memory), but would like some second opinions or perhaps a fresh idea.