Randomly freezes, black screen

I'm having trouble running the game without it freezing at some point. After it freezes, it goes into a black screen and my monitor light starts blinking as if it's going through a monitor power saving feature or sleep mode. This never happens with any of my other games.

I'm running:

AMD Athlon64 3000+
1 GB RAM
80 GB hard drive
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

I have the latest drivers for my card, and DirectX 9.0c.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

this also happens to me since live 2005 with my radeon 9600 video card.. upto now, i dont know how to fix it.

is your card overclocked?

damn some radeon cards are buggy

how can i check if it is overclocked?

if you dont know than it probably isn't

same here. i can only get up to second quarter before it freezes.

amd xp 3200
1 gig ram
radeon 9800 pro with the latest drivers. and now if fresh installed windows xp and still same problem.

does anyone had any luck fixing what could be wrong??

i think the video card is overheating. try placing an electricfan by the cpu(so that the video card will not easily overheat) while playing the game..
this works for me. the game almost never hangs.

I don't think the problem is overheating, as I have a Radeon 9800 PRO 128mb and the monitor turns black and I get the message "entering power saving mode" or something close to that. The weird thing is it ONLY happens when I play either Individual Practice or 1 on 1 game modes. It has NEVER happened in Dynasty or Quick Game mode. I really don't know why...

Mod your 9800 pro's to a 9800 xt. It's simple. To find out how search the forums on guru3d.com.

how will that solve anything?

Try to update yo video driver. I had the same problem and Catalyst 5.5 for Radeon fixed this bug.

AMD XP3000+, 512MB RAM and Radeon 9550 here. I'm having the same problem that cyanide described in the first post. The graphics card doesn't feel like it is overheating at all. I tried upgrading to the latest Omega drivers (2.6.87) but I still have this problem...

Sometimes when I try to start the game, it says "please insert CD ROM" when it is already in. I wonder if there is any link.

it seems that alot of the lower Radeon's have trouble running this game... finding a working driver is the only thing that can help, unless you spend money on a new card