Sounds like an OS thing. Some games just won't work in 2K/XP, no matter how hard you try. It really sucks. You might also take into consideration the motherboards, and, like, tells us what they are along with all of the other things asked for here. (Specifically, "The following are things that should be in your help request:," heh)
And register! It'll be fun.

Okay, I'm done.

Yes, you should definitely register. Then you too can load up an old, well loved adventure game from your glory days on your ibm ps/1, take a screenshot, load the shot in paint, painstakingly cut the character you want out of the scene pixel by pixel, copy and paste into the gimp onto a transparent background, save as a png, try to upload it, find out the board only support's jpeg + gifs, load the png into irfanview, convert to gif then finally upload it.

I bet you're jealous. If someone else had simon the sorceror as their avatar and I didn't, I'd be jealous:)

Also, apply now and you get this nifty vegetable slicer'n'dicer absolutely free!*

* Statement's followed by an asterisk may be untrue

When you say "it crashes", what crashes exactly? The game? The operating system? Under Win98 did you experience the exact same crash as under your XP? Have you installed VDMSound on your mom's XP to check if the game works with VDMSound there as well? Do you recall making any other hardware modifications (e.g. add a RAID controller) around the same time that you switched the Yamaha fro the SB-Live in your computer?

V.

I'd just like to point out that this old topic is still relevant. I dug out Boppin' yesterday and tried it. Works fine under XP normally (except music problems, obviously scratchy digital audio and slightly wonky MIDI) but crashes in VDM Sound (well, just pauses) when a piece of Sound Blaster digital audio is supposed to play. Which is very sad 🙁

Hopefully someone can help, and doesn't mind me reviving this ancient thread. Thanks guys/gals.

- Spike