Ok, I am a complete newb at this type of thing, but here goes:

motherboard
Intel Celeron 2.4Ghz
768 MB DDR RAM
Unsure, just the stock one 64MB if I remember right
Also unsure
Windows XP Home Edition 5.1.2600
Ascendancy

at first the game wouldn't run at all, so I installed the patch from the publishers website, I believe that I did it correctly. Now I'm running it without compatibilty mode on, but in 256 colors, 640X480 res, with disabled visual themes. It has all memory it needs under the memory bar in properties, and is on fullscreen under screen. close on exit is not checked on the program bar.

I get a crash when the game starts to load, the dos prompt comes up and runs until the actual game screen should appear, but it is only black, then you hear the screen kick off to change res values, the hard drive after some time kicks off and a blue screen with the crash message and physical memory dump comes up, windows was automatically shut down. When it is rebooted i send an error report and a message saying that whoever at microsoft has no solution for the problem.
I have no idea what to do now, any help at all is appreciated.