Yep, that is exactly what I was saying. The problem happened with me, basically game would load to the title screen, try to go in game and the game would crash 100% of the time. I traced it to the Glide wrapper I had installed in the system folder a while back. This is the only game I've found that exhibited this behaviour. And yes odd is the word The only explanation I can think of is the Catalyst drivers at the time for my card had a small bug. Now I can't replicate the issue at all - the game defaults to GL as it should. Edit: Just found the error log from that time, dated April 15th 2005: Beginning Glide3 log panic: texel download out of bounds > listed a lot of times