Crashing while loading map

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I'm geting the blue screen of death whenever I try to load a map, be it campaign,new game. Haven't gotten it to work once.

System specs:
-amd 2700 2.17ghz
-512 ram
-Radeon 9200 w/ DirectX 9.0c

help?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
What is the error and the address info listed on the BSOD? Write it all down when it crashes, and post it here. BSODs are generally caused by bad drivers or overheating/failing hardware.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Tech information:

*** stop: 0x0000008e (0xc0000005, 0xbfa7e060, 0xb1641af8, 0x00000000)

*** ati3d2ag.dll -address BFA7E060 base at BFA1b000,datestamp 3eadddf6

video card then?
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
It could be your video card overheating/going bad, or system memory doing the same. When you first start your computer back up after the BSOD, you should get a message that 'windows has recovered from a serious error' and a request to send info on the crash to microsoft. Do so, and you should be forwarded to a page on the MS kowledgebase where you'll get any information about this particular crash if it's a known issue (driver problem or something in windows itself). If there's nothing there, then it probably is your hardware at fault.

If you know how to burn a CD from an ISO, you can test your system memory for problems with MemTest86. Just pop over to http://www.memtest86.com and grab the zipped ISO of version 3.2, burn it, and boot from it. It should be farily straightforward and if it finds any problems, you'll know it.