Any way to stop it crashing so much?

I've had UT for less than 5 days, and already it has crashed on me over 30 times.

What's unusual is that it rarely crashes during the game, mostly when I am using the menus.

The crashes are fairly gentle, at least - a nice little dialogue box telling me there's a GPF, but they are annoying.

I've been putting up with it so far, but now I've found that I can't load the CTF-Command map in any way without it crashing on me. Which means I can't complete the tournament, since it's the last CTF map to finish.

Running in ultra-safe mode (software driver, windowed 640x480, no sound, no acceleration, all defaults) still crashes UT just after 'loading' the map.

Any help?

The error that comes up is:

General protection fault!

History: UModel:LineCheck <- CheckWithLevel <- ULevel:MultiLineCheck <- ULevel:Trace <- AActor:findBase <- BeginPlay <- UGameEngine:LoadMap <- LocalMapURL <- UGameEnginerowse <- UGameEngine:Init <- InitEngine

Hope that means something to someone.

Machine spec:

Running UT 425 and 428 (both versions crash),

Celeron 400, 128 Mb Ram, over 4Gb HD space for swap, Win95b,

Diamond uTNT2 with nVidia 3.68, 3.69, 5.22 and 6.18 drivers (no difference between any of them),

Creative Ensoniq PCI soundcard + latest driver.

-- Bob

Thanks for the suggestion but it didn't work. In fact, it's even worse now

I did the copy to HD and then reinstall, but UT then didn't even run. So I uninstalled everything, and reinstalled. I can now play CTF-Command as a practice game, but it crashes immediately if I try to start a tournament.

I can't believe they could make such a good game, but then screw it up with all these bugs. I think I'll take UT back if the shop will let me, this is too annoying to deal with.

-- Bob