Spring RTS Engine

My computer completely locks up after playing spring for about 10-15 minutes. It's been like this since the first time I ever played it, about version 0.5, and still crashes with the latest version.
Computer spec:
2.4ghz Pentium IV.
512MB RAM
256MB Nvidia Geforce 6600 (with latest drivers)

Even if put the res down to 800*600 and turn all the fancy graphics off, it still crashes. Spring uses practically 100% of the CPU and stays that way until it overheats and freezes up, forcing me to do a hard reset.

Here is a picture of ten Pee-Wees running about. It's running the commanders script, so it can't even be the AI messing up.


Can anyone help?
Please?

Exactly the same happens to me
I realy want to know a solution for it

Orochimaru wrote:Exactly the same happens to me
I realy want to know a solution for it

Most game will always leave your CPU usage at 100%. I whould speculate that the problem isn't that the CPU usage is 100%. If you think that 100% CPU usage is the problem try running a simpeler program that uses 100% of the CPU. Just about any free game that isn't turn based should work.
I whould guess that your graphics card is faulty and ever since .5 spring has overtaxed your graphics card. I had a faulty graphics card that whould work fine until I ran almost anything that required the 3D features. Then it would Bule Screen.

Orochimaru wrote:Exactly the same happens to me
I realy want to know a solution for it

Most game will always leave your CPU usage at 100%. I whould speculate that the problem isn't that the CPU usage is 100%. If you think that 100% CPU usage is the problem try running a simpler program that uses 100% of the CPU. Just about any free game that isn't turn based should work.
I whould guess that your graphics card is faulty and ever since .5 spring has overtaxed your graphics card. I had a faulty graphics card that whould work fine until I ran almost anything that required the 3D features. Then it would Bule Screen.

Found a solution: I had windows xp media edition and when I installed the normal windows xp pro, the game worked normal