when playing world of warcraft the game randomly but frequently crashes back to the desktop with no error message or (more often) reboots my whole comp. when that happens i get a microsoft error that there was a problem with my video card driver which resulted in a stop error. (ATI Radeon 9550)i have found no solution on WoW forums or tech support, and ATI still hasn't responded to me. i have the latest drivers from ati's website, i updated my bios/chipset drivers, i've tried everything recommended anywhere i've seen. this problem has been occuring for maonths but with each new patch or update from blizzard the problem gets worse. now i cant stay logged in for more than 5 minutes. oh, and nothing is overheating, either. posting here is proof of blizzard's inability/incompetence to solve this problem. someone please help if you have any ideas as every day i can't play i'm still dishing out money to blizzard. thakyou, and if you need more info i will provide.

Does it do this on your other games??, How do you know that you card isnt overheating?

AMD Athlon 64 4000+ Skt.939
1gb Ram
2x 250gb Maxtor HDD
XFX Geforce 7300Le PCi-e
Asus A8V-VM SE
Win TV

I've been having the same problem for weeks with WoW on mine (same model T3256). I did a full clean wipe and reinstall of windows XP and the problem came back right away.

These problems didn't happen prior to the WoW expansion, and i believe it's completely the fault of the blizzard software.

This problem doesn't occur in any other program or game.

I have this problem lately as well after the expansion, my pc spec is:
P4 2.66GHz
1GB ram
ATI 9550
etc...

I have played the other games with no problem whatsoever for hours so I can assume it's not about overheating. At the moment when I play WOW and usually when I am walking around in the map for about 5min then I crash out to the windows with error message saying "not enough memory to run the following program" (i don't remember exact word for it but the same meaning). I have never had this problem before (except when I am flying on the bird in the game). Now it gets so bad that I can't even go anywhere because it'll crash in the middle. I am sure that it's nothing to do with memory or cpu... I close all other applications to run this game and turned down all the graphics settings. My drivers are updated btw.

If there's anybody out there who could help me I would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Hi I have found this solution from the web, and I have tried it and it actually works! I have also put "-nosound" at the end command in the wow shortcut (make sure there is space before the - so it looks like xxx\Launcher.exe" -nosound. You can try just using the below solution without doing this. Or you can try both. I have copied the solution here:

Delete the info in your config. file (in the folder) and paste this in instead. I have 2 computers with ATI cards, and I imported the info from the one that was working, to the one that wasnt and now its running perfect, no problems. Its worth a shot, and if it doesnt work, just delete the config. file and it will go back to defaults.

SET hwDetect "0"
SET gxResolution "1024x768"
SET gxRefresh "60"
SET gxMultisampleQuality "0.000000"
SET gxFixLag "0"
SET fullAlpha "1"
SET lodDist "100.000000"
SET SmallCull "0.070000"
SET DistCull "500.000000"
SET farclip "417"
SET particleDensity "1.000000"
SET unitDrawDist "300.000000"
SET movie "0"
SET readTOS "1"
SET readEULA "1"
SET readScanning "-1"
SET readContest "-1"
SET realmName "Staghelm"
SET mouseSpeed "1"
SET MusicVolume "0.40000000596046"
SET SoundVolume "1"
SET MasterVolume "1"
SET cameraPitchMoveSpeed "90"
SET cameraYawMoveSpeed "180"
SET cameraPitchSmoothSpeed "45"
SET cameraYawSmoothSpeed "180"
SET cameraDistanceMaxFactor "1"
SET gameTip "30"
SET AmbienceVolume "0.60000002384186"
SET Gamma "1.000000"
SET uiScale "0.8299999833107"
SET minimapZoom "0"
SET guildMemberNotify "1"
SET profanityFilter "0"
SET realmList "us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com"
SET PreferedLocale "enUS"
SET scriptMemory "79872"
SET EnableMusic "0"
SET cameraView "4"
SET MasterSoundEffects "0"
SET minimapInsideZoom "0"
SET ffxGlow "0"
SET UnitNamePlayerPVPTitle "0"
SET SoundZoneMusicNoDelay "1"
SET locale "enUS"
SET statusBarText "1"
SET soundMaxHardwareChannels "12"
SET CombatLogRangeParty "200"
SET CombatLogRangePartyPet "200"
SET CombatLogRangeFriendlyPlayers "200"
SET CombatLogRangeFriendlyPlayersPets "200"
SET CombatLogRangeHostilePlayers "200"
SET CombatLogRangeHostilePlayersPets "200"
SET CombatLogRangeCreature "200"
SET gxTripleBuffer "1"
SET weatherDensity "0"
SET ffxDeath "0"
SET useUiScale "1"
SET gxColorBits "24"
SET gxDepthBits "24"
SET specular "1"
SET anisotropic "16"
SET shadowLevel "0"
SET pixelShaders "1"
SET baseMip "1"
SET spellEffectLevel "0"
SET useWeatherShaders "0"
SET autoSelfCast "1"
SET lastCharacterIndex "1"
SET timingMethod "1"