Constant Crashes

[Flashbak910]

Ok, just started up the game. It was about 5 minutes into the game that I froze up. Everything before the freeze was A-OK. I was able to Alt-Tab out onto my task bar on the bottom of my screen from the desktop. A few minutes later I could minimize the game to see the background of my desktop while blocks of the images stuck to my Steam account module window. I had to do a hard restart because my computer completely froze up.

These are my specs:

I have a Nvidia Geforce 7600 GT (512mb I believe) graphics card, AMD Athlon 62 X2 Duel Core 4200+ 2.21 GHz processor, and 2 GB of RAM. I'm running Windows XP SP3 and I have just recently updated my video card drivers from Nvidia's website.

[Nike-it]

Really strange, please post the exact number of the your version. And also please send DirectX report (dxdiag) to our support (support@1cpublishing.eu).

[Flashbak910]

Update for videocard: 260.89 WHQL, that's weird, this was just released two or three days ago, I just installed the version before that.
I'm not sure if that's the number you need.
Sending DxDiag report now.

[Sneaksie]

Complete froze-up means hardware or core software (drivers) problems, no game is able to freeze a PC completely on its own. You should check your card cooling ASAP or it may be damaged because of overheating.

[Flashbak910]

I was able to do much more in one of my most recent matches ingame. I lasted for about 7 minutes this time after I had upgraded my video card to the latest version, then it randomly froze up and I had to do another hard restart.
Hopefully my DxDiag report and your teams can help me fix my problem for good.

[Flashbak910]

My video card does generate a low buzzing noise though, there's no overheating problems that I know of, I felt the plastic casing on the fan and touched the metal on the back of it, didn't feel hot at all.

[Sneaksie]

There is a number of things in a modern PC that may overheat - video card, CPU, some chips on mainboard.

[Korsakov829]

My XP always makes noise. I mean really loud noise. I've looked inside it and everythings rusty and dusty. FSB may come and arrest me anyday now for keeping a Biohazard in my house.

[Flashbak910]

Actually more recently, I've noticed my monitor flashing black and then going back to normal, just happened twice in the last 2 minutes of typing this.