Am at work right now so I cant give the particulars of my system...but....its a Toshiba Laptop also..just thought I would throw that in there..also last night experienced the excat same problem with "Operational Art of War" After Several hour.
Will submit System Specs later tonight.

<t>Thanks for the replies I had also posted this in the generic SPWAW forum and got a few replies that no one was really having problems with XP.<br/>
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More details..hmmmm...<br/>
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I was running 5.3 and encountering this problem....upgraded to 7.1 with all appropriate patches and got it to ...

<t>Thanks for the replies....seems that its not XP as many of you are running fine with it.<br/>
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I posted the plea for help last night while I was downloading all the upgrades to get from 5.3 to 7.1. To my amazement this afternoon I was able to get the game to run for over 3 hours....then ...

<t>Hey Guys,<br/>
Anybody having problems with WinXP? Game will only run a max of 5-10 mins before it completely shuts the computer down, not just to the desktop..but powers it off.<br/>
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I have been recalled back to Active Duty and until I get to put steel on target, or the wife tells me ...

<t>Hey Guys,<br/>
Anybody having problems with WinXP? Game will only run a max of 5-10 mins before it completely shuts the computer down, not just to the desktop..but powers it off.<br/>
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I have been recalled back to Active Duty and until I get to put steel on target, or the wife tells me ...

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