Ok, so I've reinstalled my VIA 4in1 drivers, updated the ATI Radeon and Phillips soundcard drivers, checked my MSI/American BIOS and it is up to date.
The game is still crashing. It seems that the game crashes occasionally when I click to "logoff" of the battlecruiser computer menus.
When the crash occurs, there is no error message. Just a blue screen with the last half second of audio stuttering ad infinum in the background, leaving me the only choice to manually reset the computer.
I've checked the Event View logs, and the two suspected entries created by the crash are a save dump followed by a redbook error.
Examining the memory dump, the exception error appears to be related to ntoskrnl
Again, this problem is isolated to UC, and has not occured during any other game or program. I would appreciate any help you could give me, or if you could even direct me somewhere I could find the information to correct this problem. Thanks again