not im saying that is not the cause of the problem ... but i'm so tired of hearing things bout the AV. so anyway, the only problem i can think of is maybe u got a lot of patches that maybe conflicted each other. i dunno what specifically but if u don't even have patches at all, then i don't know the answer coz i have a xp 1700+, 256 ram, gf2mx400 vc and i don't have any problems with anything - dynasty/sim/etc. (except for the cyberfaces/portrait patches that wont apply in the game and i dont know why

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