Freezing 5 Minutes In

[Sabtos]

Originally, the game crashed before starting due to the need for a driver update. At the very least I can appreciate that a window popped up telling me it crashed, and where to go for advice. So I updated the driver.

Then it finally started, I got all the way into game, and was able to control Daniel. I would walk around, pick a few things up, walk some more and the screen just goes into what looks like power saver mode (off) and the sound starts skipping. This occurred 4 different times. This froze my computer in this state and I had to manually turn it off and back on. On the 4th crash, it, oddly, reset itself.

These are my specs:

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT
Windows XP Home
Intel Pentium 4
DirectX Diag says 1022 MB RAM, System Properties says 1GB RAM
DirectX 9.0c

I didn't find any advice specific to my complaint, so I apologize if there is something like this already that I missed. I'm finding the various solutions very disconcerting though. To have to manipulate one's computer to such a degree in order to play a game we purchased that doesn't even have extreme reqs is very unfortunate. It is the devs' jobs to ensure the consumer can download and play with ease.

Please, fix this.