I purchased the sprocketIDEA GOLD EDITION of armed assault and patched the game to the latest version.

However when trying to run the game I can play some missions... others result in the game crashing to desktop momentarily before the system completely restarts.

It also restarts if I exit the game.

I am completely at a loss as to what is causing the problem... it is the first game I have had any kind of issue with on this system.

Temps are all very low and even very demanding games like crysis run smoothly with no hiccups or crashes. It has been running stably for months.

The system is NOT overclocked

Here are my system specs.

Intel 8400 core 2
Asus P45 Deluxe motherboard
4GB corsair ram (2X matching sticks in dual channel)
ATI radeon 4870 512mb (using cats 8.11)
Creative X-fi gamer
500w power supply
Windows XP home 32 bit

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated... thanks

I've just been searching and it seems other people have experienced issues like this as well.

It seems to be an ATI issue... perhaps drivers or the firmware on the card itself?