Just curious if any of you have any ideas on this.

Ok so far it seems AoC, EvE and Settlers - rise of an empire all load fine.

World in conflict Stronghold 2 kill the pc.
Screen locks up while its trying to load up.
CPU looks to be at 0% or 100% when it happens.
Only Fix is to reboot.

Tried just using 1 bar of ram, removing the Oc ect.
Starting to think its the vista 64.
bad install maybe or driver conflict?

Mass Effect just won't play for me under Vista64. Suggest dual boot via that link I gave you

aye doing that in the week,
Just frustrating as it seems compleatly random as to what games fail to work on vista 64 for different people.

i know some can play both games i cant on vista 64bit lol.

Ive not had any issues with 64bit vista, although nearly every game i play i run through steam which vista seems to love.