Footpunker, go back through and read my posts.... There is information you have left out that will help us severly. Anyways, it just sounds like you have lagging at the start, and not crashing... If you still hear the music playing, or it still SHOWS the screen, then you aren\'t crashed... If it crashes then it is going to bring up a Load Error for Win 95/98 and for Win ME/XP it will bring up the Send Error Message. Thats when you know the program has actually TRULY crashed. Past that, you just aren\'t being patient enough to let the world load... I have a good computer and it takes me anywhere from 1-5 minutes to load the world totally...