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[Tulac]

I have the ripped civ2 gold version, that I downloaded from the web (most probably here when it wasn't ESA'd), and it works perfectly fine... Until it crashes. This always happens after around 10 minutes of playing, here's what I tried: every compatibility mode, running with VDMsound, turning off MSN, firewall, everything else running in the background.
The computer restarts by itself without any error report, so I've made windows show a BSOD so I can see what the problems are, mostly gives IRQL_LESS_NOT_EQUAL, or PAGE_FILE... something. Of course none of the solutions on the internet have helped me. I've also tried to play it in safe mode, where it also crashes after around 10 minutes but without the BSOD, but still I have to manually reset my PC.
My Specs:
Windows XP (SP2, but it didn't work without SP2 either)
AMD XP2000+
256 MB RAM
QDI motherboard (VIAKT400 chipset)
40GB hard disk
GF4mx440
Interesting that I also had exactly the same problem with running Baldur's Gate, so if anyone might know a solution to my problems I'd give them a thousand thanks.