Computer Crashing

[Rockstar2410]

I play Call of Duty Black Ops, Starcraft 2, and WoW with full graphics....no problems. But when I play this emulator for about 2mins of running around, and my PC crashes to reboot... What do I do?

AMD Athlon(tm) 64X2 Dual Core Processor 5400+ 2.81 GHz
2GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
Everything is updated.

Why does this game crash my computer?

[trevius]

Maybe you have a multi-core CPU issue that can be resolved by reading the FAQ in my sig. I haven't seen reports of it causing a full crash of the PC though. What Windows are you running?

Most of the time, a crash like that is due to a hardware issue like RAM going bad or CPU/GPU overheating. Though, I have also had issues with some programs like specifically iTunes. Some version of iTunes would actually cause random crashes of my PC and I know other people that had the same exact issue with it, so that is something to consider. If that is your problem, you might be able to uninstall it and see if it corrects your problem. Then, just wait a month or so before adding it back on your PC so hopefully the patch is updated to not crash Windows anymore.

[Rockstar2410]

Sorry I forgot to mention that, I am running Windows XP at the moment. I went and bought Windows 7 to install. I haven't installed it yet because I wanted to find out if this problem might occur with Windows 7 as well. I'm gonna give the CPU fix a shot first also to see if that fixes it before I install Windows 7. Unless you suggest that I run 7 over XP.

Thank you for taking the time to help me out! I appreciate it a lot!!