OK all the children playing this can respond!!! The game is freezing at various times & I have to shut down PC. I'vew got a new Windows XP, 512/120, Direct X9. I am sutting down all running programs as per technical help on game but it is still freezing. Any suggestions or is this going to be a way of life with XP??

make sure your using DirectX9b

and have no other programs such as screensavers antivirus firewalls etc running inthe background.

Inferno

Inferno, do you mean Direct X9b or 9.0. When installing the game it asks to install Direct X9.0 which I said Yes. But when I checked innards of PC I didn't see Direct X9 at all-just Direct X8

How odd! I originally had DirectX 8.1a and Harry Potter upgraded it to DiectX 9.0b

Did you restart your system after your install?

Inferno

No, but I emailed EA games & looked at their problem list & one thing they said was not to set at16-bit, so I changed it to 32-bit & so far no freezes. I don't know if that helped or not but I am just toodling along ok.

Thanks for you help.

strange... I had mine set to 16bit (I'm playing 7th guest as well) and had absolutely no lockups or freezes.

Inferno

Who knows??? Anyway, so far I have had no PC problems, just a few game playing spots. Right now I am trying to get Harry down the slide.

mine Freezes every 15 minutes 16 or 32 bits
any solutions??

I have no idea. All I know is that when I changed mine to 32 but so far it has not frozen. Those with more PC knowledge than I can help.
Why not post again on your own thread & I know you will get some help.

Need more info:
What are your specs for your system.

Inferno

thanks for all the help it was a problem of lack of win XP virtual memory. I add -safe to the game executable and enter a menu of debug mode and run the game, it crashed to windows with the message "not enough virtual memory". I used -safe by chance but it worked hehe.

Great I'll remember that if I have any more problems!!!