Crashing

[Steelrat]

Hello, ever since i started playing Company of Heroes: Gold Edition i have been suffering from inconsistent lock ups/crashes. My game will (randomly) freeze and the last played sound will loop until i alt+tab and end the process through task manager. I can not replicate or reproduce a crash, there are no similarities in events when the crash occurs. I would say i crash every 1/3 games, perhaps more frequently.

I have tried Multiple graphics drivers, (Most recent and older) to fix this problem, but the crashes still occur.
I have changed my Sound hardware acceleration from full to standard to basic and still crash.
I have reinstalled the game (Multiple times).
I have tried turning sound off in game (But you cant actually disable sound so i just turned it all the way to 0, not sure if this would've even done anything).
I have tried running the game on lowest settings.
I have tried running the game with almost no other processes running in the back ground (ESET NOD32 Antivirus, i thought this may have been conflicting).

Any assistance would be appreciated.

[GeoffS]

The first thing to try is to install SP3 for Windows XP. You should be able to get it from the Microsoft Download Centre.

[Steelrat]

I don't think upgrading to SP3 will fix this problem and id rather that be a last resort, any other suggestions? I can play any other game for hours with absolutely no problem... more Graphic/CPU/Memory intensive games with not a single problem.

[GeoffS]

Installing Windows Service Packs should always be the first resort when troubleshooting problems. Microsoft release the updates because they solve most problems.

Also:

I have tried Multiple graphics drivers, (Most recent and older) to fix this problem, but the crashes still occur.
I have changed my Sound hardware acceleration from full to standard to basic and still crash.
I have reinstalled the game (Multiple times).
I have tried turning sound off in game (But you cant actually disable sound so i just turned it all the way to 0, not sure if this would've even done anything).
I have tried running the game on lowest settings.
I have tried running the game with almost no other processes running in the back ground (ESET NOD32 Antivirus, i thought this may have been conflicting).

If you have tried all these things without updating Windows, it looks like you are at your last resort.