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Okay so I have a bit of a problem with the game, Freespace 2 which I just purchased off of GOG.com. It seems to be a hardware problem but I'll describe it in detail.
The game crashes in the mission where you are flying through a nebula for the first time. The screen turns yellow and though the sound still plays, the screen stays frozen and won't change. I can get past this level. So far I've run it in compatibility mode and played around with detail settings to no avail.
I'm using a Gforce 6800 GTS 540mb with a dual core processor and 2gigs of ram. It's Windows XP professional sp3.
Any advice would be great.
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lesserbeing: Okay so I have a bit of a problem with the game, Freespace 2 which I just purchased off of GOG.com. It seems to be a hardware problem but I'll describe it in detail.
The game crashes in the mission where you are flying through a nebula for the first time. The screen turns yellow and though the sound still plays, the screen stays frozen and won't change. I can get past this level. So far I've run it in compatibility mode and played around with detail settings to no avail.
I'm using a Gforce 6800 GTS 540mb with a dual core processor and 2gigs of ram. It's Windows XP professional sp3.
Any advice would be great.

I am having this exact same problem. the only thing I can add is that I have the following error in event viewer.
Hanging application FS2.exe, version 1.0.0.1, hang module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hang address 0x00000000.
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lesserbeing: Okay so I have a bit of a problem with the game, Freespace 2 which I just purchased off of GOG.com. It seems to be a hardware problem but I'll describe it in detail.
The game crashes in the mission where you are flying through a nebula for the first time. The screen turns yellow and though the sound still plays, the screen stays frozen and won't change. I can get past this level. So far I've run it in compatibility mode and played around with detail settings to no avail.
I'm using a Gforce 6800 GTS 540mb with a dual core processor and 2gigs of ram. It's Windows XP professional sp3.
Any advice would be great.

Ok, I found the fix in this forum. Check these two threads and do what they say. I did and not only did it fix the crash bug, but it looks a hell of a lot better to boot.
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/Freespace_Series/fix_for_choppy_graphics_fs1_amp_fs2_on_nvidia_cards/1
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/Freespace_Series/gog_freespace_2_freespaceopen/9