I've never had the game crash (unless when alt+tabbing out) until I started doing the VIP quests. The first time it happened it was in the quests at the Necropolis. After that we moved up to Gianthold and that's when I started crashing often. I constantly had to shut down the application and relog before getting killed by the mob I had aggroed. This makes it very difficult to complete any of the quests I paid for with my VIP subscription.
My graphics card isn't great, but even my boyfriend's computer, which is a lot older, has no problem running the game without crashing.
I am running Windows Vista x64 Home Premium, with a Pentium Dual core processor e5200 2.50ghzx2 with 6 gigs of ram -- NVidia integrated GeForce 9200. I am running the game at 1920x1080 HD resolution if that matters.
I cannot update my graphics driver because all newer versions other than the original one don't work well with 64 bit Vista, HDMI audio out stops working and I really need to be able to watch shows on my TV. So upgrading to the latest graphics driver is out of the question. I tried tweaking the graphics settings, which didn't work. I also tried lowering the frame rate and slowing down the game engine -- neither of which worked. Here is a list of programs that were running in the background.
KeyScrambler, Symmantec EndPoint protection, Spybot SD, Daemon Tools lite. Though I doubt it has anything to do with them since I had no problems doing all of the free quests.
Is there anything that can be done (I read about others having this problem and re-installing the game didn't work for them)?
Thanks for any help you can give me.