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Try disabling all sound hardware acceleration and EAX.

OFP was crashing all the time: either resetting my system; crashing to desktop; or freezing with and without sounds repeating. I upgraded all drivers etc to the latest and it didnt make any difference...OFP was still crashing at least once an hour and sometimes every 10 minutes. I then changed a BIOS setting "AGP Capability" from 4x to 2x (even though my MB and Graphics card can handle 4x) and OFP has been fine ever since. I have now played for a total of more than 10 hours without one problem. I read this fix somewhere on the web and it appears to have worked for me.

Oops...Forgot to add my sound card. New System: MB: A7V266-E BIOS: 1004B CPU: Athlon 1900+ HDD: 40GB (35GB Free) RAM: 512 MB DDR2100 Video Card: AGP Hercules Geforce3 Ti200 Sound Card: PCI CMI8738/C3DX MS Windows: Win98SE MS Explorer: 6 MS DirectX: 8.1

Try disabling your sound card and then play OFP and see if it crashes. You can disable the card by opening Sytem Properties then the Device Manger Tab, then open "Sound Video and game controllers". Now select your sound card and press the "Properties" button. Then check "Disable in this hardware profile" and the hit the "OK" button. Your sound card icon should now have a little red X through it. If the Game is now OK you know the sound card/driver/directX is most likely the problem. Playing OFP without sound is almost impossible but at least it might help solve the problem. A lot of people appear to be having sound problems recently and not just with OFP. I have tried Avon's solutions but they have not helped. New System: MB: A7V266-E BIOS: 1004B CPU: Athlon 1900+ HDD: 40GB (35GB Free) RAM: 512 MB DDR2100 Video Card: Hercules Geforce3 Ti200 MS Windows: Win98SE MS Explorer: 6 MS DirectX: 8.1

Try disabling your sound card and then play OFP and see if it crashes. You can disable the card by opening Sytem Properties then the Device Manger Tab, then open "Sound Video and game controllers". Now select your sound card and press the "Properties" button. Then check "Disable in this hardware profile" and the hit the "OK" button. Your sound card icon should now have a little red X through it. If the Game is now OK you know the sound card/driver/directX is most likely the problem. Playing OFP without sound is almost impossible but at least it might help solve the problem. A lot of people appear to be having sound problems recently and not just with OFP.