I'm having some computer trouble, dang game keeps crashing on me
Time for a general system cleanup, I guess. May take a day or so before I post any turns.
The way that I was able to stop my PC from crashing while running SP:WaW was to use the 'Ctrl"+'Alt'+'Del' function to shut down all other programs running in the background of the Windows environment except Explorer and Systray. and SP:WaW of course. (Assuming you haven't tried this already.)
That's not it. Not all of it, anyways. Win95 slowly eats up HD space and with only 4 gig to go around, I just have to clean out the system every so often. Quickest (read: easiest) way to do this is a full format and reinstall. It's sorted now, should be alright for the next couple of months.