Hi all, my first post so be gentle on me, i have a Athlon and a Gforce 3, i also found that the game would work great in win 98se after i got over the first level but in Win xp pro it would crash back to desktop when loading new level. It did not mater what drivers i used for my Gf3 or what patch i installed but i stumbled on a fix that worked for me, so it may work for others also. I downloaded the game patch v1.01 then extracted the patch to a dir, then copied the file from the patch dir called:e2_d3d8_driver_mfc.dll and copied it to my Maxpayne\e2driver dir replacing the origanal. I have not had any crashes since even with all settings maxed out. I am not shure why this worked but at the time i was desperate to get the game going and tried allsorts, funny enough if i installed the whole patch it did not fix it. Hope it may help someone.
Bye,
Ian...
