Age Of Mythology: Titans

G'day ,

There was one of two places I could place this, and I decided that this would be a better option.

Anywho, my Age Of Mythology: Titans game (I got the gold edition and installed them both at the same time) causes my computer to give me a black screen like my graphics card is cutting out - forcing me to restart and/or it restarts by itself. I've tried reinstalling the game countless times as well as using Driver Clean to uninstall ATi drivers along with CCC before doing a complete reinstall. No dice. I've touched my graphics card (Radeon 9250 - Yes, old card, but more than enough to power a game such as this) and the heatsink appears to be hotter than it used to get when I first got it - which seems to imply a lack of thermal grease present.

While all this seems to result in me answering my own question, all the information above is entirely contradictory of what I have read elsewhere.

1. The 9250 isn't meant to get hot enough to cut itself off to save itself from damage, even without a heatsink (Sounds a little far-fetched to me)
2. Reading up on the Microsoft KB's before deciding to come here suggested turning off the automatic restart option - which my computer doesn't even have enabled.
3. No mini dumps are present.

I am running an AMD 1800+ with WinXP SP3 with 512MB of RAM, which is, like stated before, more than enough to run a pansy little game such as AOM. Could somebody point me in a direction of something I hope I have overlooked.

-Twizted