A possible way to play and finish huge marathon games without crashing

I have both Windows XP and Windows XP 64 installed on my AMD 64, 1GB RAM machine. I have many crashes on my Windows XP and it takes about 5 minutes to load a save game. On my XP64 install, I was able to finish the game and everything runs order of magnitude faster. Guess it has something to do with memory management.

Sorry this solution is not for everyone.

Cheers!

I have Windows XP and with the new patch no crashes at all... and I had lots before...