I think you said it all! :idea:Hey, Change your resolution in the options and try again? For me it crashes on third resolution since my monitor does not support it . Do you use voobly to play multiplayer with the ws resolution patch or without?
here is the dxtool which feage was talking about
http://www.file-upload.net/download-756 ... L.EXE.html
Try to disable DirectDraw and Direct3D acceleration,i read that it worked for a user in voobly
good luck