Hi, i have a similar problem, the game crashes somewhere between loading the universe and crashing later in the load sequence (no sound pack or no patch) the first just sends me back to desktop but the latter crashes my whole pc. I have a 2.66 pentium 4, 512 mb ram, and a radeon 9800xt- all my drivers are up to date. Im using the 1.1 patch, here is the crash log: Tue Sep 14 20:16:52 2004 Loaded Archive: 'Homeworld2.big' Loaded Archive: 'english.big' Loaded Archive: 'WARLORDSV0.30.Big' Uing ..profiles\ for profiles folder Cannot overwrite function PickRandomMusicTrackRule GAME -- Using player profile TCR Changing from a 32 bit colour depth in winNT (5.1 build 2600), Service Pack 2 Using ATI Technologies Inc.'s 1.5.4582 WinXP Release RADEON 9800 x86/SSE2 renderer (Suspected driver is atioglxx.dll 6.14.10.4582) Loaded Archive: 'englishSpeech.big' Loaded Archive: 'Music.big' SOUND -- created destination [ fdaudio ], handle [ 4 ] with [ 48 ] channels created SOUND -- created destination [ fda streamer ], handle [ 5 ] with [ 8 ] channels created Build name: The Dust Wars - AutoBuild3569 - Ordered by smmatte Built by : mrbuild Data path : C:\Program Files\Sierra\Homeworld2\data Resetting fp control word. CmdLine: -mod WARLORDSV0.30.Big -luatrace -overrideBigFile Cannot overwrite function PickRandomMusicTrackRule Starting Level: data:LevelData\Multiplayer\Deathmatch\CORUSCANT_ORBIT.LEVEL any help would be much appreciated