UT '99 (GOTY) crashes on AS-HiSpeed

I just purchased the Unreal Anthology, and have installed Unreal Tournament (GOTY) on my Asus EEE PC 901. The game runs brilliantly on this machine, but last night after trying to play assault map AS-HiSpeed for the first time, the game randomly froze on me and I was forced to restart my laptop. I tried again with the same result, though after a much shorter period of time playing. The audio continued (perhaps stuck in an infinite loop?) after the screen froze both times.

Does anybody know what might cause this and/or a fix for the problem. It only seems to be this map causing the crash...

Yes, sorry, I'm running it under Windows XP, Direct3D renderer, with no updates of any kind made to the game post-install.

There isn't an error message given, the screen freezes and it's impossible to even get back to the desktop. Ctrl-Alt-Delete just makes a cursor appear over the top of the frozen image (only in certain places, though). I had to physically reset the system both times.

I'll post the contents of the log file when I get home (not on this PC).

I Googled the hell out of it but only found the mention of this map crashing on a Mac as you mentioned. I'll certainly try using the software renderer, although I'll be a bit annoyed if that's the only solution. I can't understand why it's only this map that causes a problem if it's a renderer issue...

OK, bit of an update. I've tried various things, switching to software rendering, using the alternate D3D driver you linked to IronMonkey, both of which produced exactly the same result.

The game starts to stutter a bit just before it completely crashes, but it seems to happen at random. I've managed to complete one round of the map before it goes, other times it'll happen really quickly.

I'm stumped...

Edit (again): After some experimentation it appears this only happens when I am using the Instagib mutator. Weird.

Thanks for your help anyway. I think this just boils down to some weird incompatibility with the hardware of the EEE PC 901; tested it on my regular Dell desktop and everything ran fine. Oh well, I can always play my instagib assault matches on that machine. Is that weird? I use instagib on everything! Probably a hangover from too many "License to Kill" Goldeneye matches back in the day...