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I play one map perfectly fine but the next game I load up the next map looks like its doing alright when in the loading screen but while loading the load bar freezes and Pr crashes ops:

Im on Vista running graphics all on med.

Any advice?

Moved to support. Please provide your system specs, especially RAM

OS: Windows Vista Home premeuim

Processer: Intel Core quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4CPUs) ~2.4GHz

RAM: 3070 MB

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Please help its so annoying

Do you have all three PR parts installed correctly plus the 0.97 mappack?
Also make sure you're not running the mappack beta.

Try to shutdown unnecessary background processes to free up RAM and CPU cycles.
You can download gamebooster3 software to do this. Game Booster - Download.com

You can try to increase the size of your pagefile.
Change the size of virtual memory (Page file size) in Vista | Windows Reference
I guess you could go all the way up to custom set pagefile size to minimum and maximum of 3072 Mb .

You are up against the physical limits with your 3GB of RAM, it's essential to shutdown anything like skype, AIM, windowscamera programs, cell phone sync programs, etc in the background to try to free up RAM.

Gamebooster will do most of this automatically, you can do it manually, and here is how:
Here is a guide to the windows services running by default in Vista SP2, SP1, etc.
PLEASE READ THOROUGHLY before you start disabling services:
Windows Vista | Black Viper | www.blackviper.com

Also run in windowed mode, see if you get an error message.