The Warcraft III NVIDIA (ACCESS_VIOLATION) problem. Anyone know a fix?

[The Internal]

Hi all,

I have gotten a reoccuring problem with Warcraft III ever since I got my MSI 6600 GT. I'll be playing warcraft and have it crash in the middle of the game with a "access_violation" of some sort. Apparantly this is a fairly common issue, after I googled it. However, it sounds like there could be numerous factors causing it. I am getting some failures when I run Microsoft Memory Diagnostic in extended mode (test 11, ERAND I believe.) It's crucial ballistix RAM, so it's under warranty and all... but considering how many people I've heard with this problem, I wonder if it's a NVIDIA driver thing.

System Specs:

ABIT NF7-S rev 2
Athlon XP 3200 Barton
2x512 MB Crucial Ballistix DDR400
MSI 6600 GT
Maxtor Maxline III 300 GB SATA HD
Western Digital 120 GB Special Edition EIDE
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro
Pioneer 16x DVD-RW
Lite-On 52x CD-RW/16x DVD-ROM
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Klipsch 5.1 ProMedias (rev 3)
HP L2335 23" widescreen LCD
ViewSonic GS790 (19" CRT)
450 watt OCZ Modstream
Windows Media Center 2005

I'm running my LCD at 1920x1200 and the CRT at 1280x1024 normally. For Warcraft III, I run it at 1600x1200 or lower.

 

[Mr Mean]

Warcraft III Rein of Choas, Frozen Throne and World of Warcraft run fine with the latest beta the nzone.com site. No issues so far.

 

[TrueRush]

i'm not getting any crashes in mid games however i do get sudden freezes after leaving the game but eventually goes to the scoreboard. sometimes if it takes too long my system will just reboot automatically after about 10-15secs. also a lot of artifacts show up here and there going back to desktop and back it fixes the artifacts prematurely (rinse and repeat when necessary for me).

in the past i was using a gf3 ti500 and overclocking and aggressive ram timings and noticed that my games would crash regularly wc3/ut/bf1942. so something to keep in mind if you do overclock.

currently i run everything stock. i have run memtest for a several hours without problems as well as prime95 however i do see vertical strips of lines running down my monitor when i do use prime.

i dont believe its my 6800gt tho since i've been having the same problems with my 9800pro. the ati 7500/gf4600 was working fine (no artifacts as well no problems as mentioned above) and while i havent tried the 6800gt on another system yet my 9800pro worked fine on another. so definately think its my psu. i wont be getting my psu pcp&c 510sli until next week. i'll be at ease once i get it sorted out.

btw, playing 1600x everything max with digital vibrance and image sharpening on one notch i see the game in a totally different light as to all my other games and desktop in general. ati as far as i'm concerned doesnt compare. i'm really happy with my purchase.