Help with Radeon/Soundblaster/AMD based system

[player196]

I've been getting crashes in High Heat Baseball 2002 constantly when playing in Season, Exibition, Batting Practice and Pitching Practice modes in 3D mode. But, the strange thing is I can play Home Run Derby without any problems, which is very strange to me. When I talk about crashes, I am saying, freeze-up's in game, crashes to the desktop (most common), and blue screens of death.
An example of a message I get on a blue screen is:

A fatal exception OE has occured at 0028:CO2A3531 in VxD VWIN32(05) + 00002059.

Lately, this has started to happen in other games too (Alpha Centari, Madden 2001, etc.), the most common problem being freezing up. I just got through updating my drivers for my 3D card, sound card, and motherboard chipset. These problems have happened before and after updating these drivers. Here's a look at my system:

Operating System Windows 98 v4.10.2222
DirectX Version DirectX 8.0
CPU Model/Name AMD Duron(tm) Pr with MMX(TM) Technology
CPU Speed 833MHz
# of Processors 1
Total Physical Memory 574MB
% Memory Used 25%
Resolution 800 x 600
Color Depth 32-Bit
Free Disk Space C:\ 5.70GB
Max Swap File Size 1.44GB
Available Swap File 1.31GB
CD-ROM Access Mode 32-Bit Disk Access
TCP/IP Protocol Installed
3DO Title Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball 2001
3DO Title High Heat Major League Baseball 2002
Video Adapter RADEON
Driver Date 3-13-2001
Driver Version 4.13.7093
Multimedia Components Closed Caption Decoder
Multimedia Components Creative SB Live!
Multimedia Components ATI WDM Rage Theater Video
Multimedia Components Sevel Speakerphone Modem Serial Wave Device
Driver Date 5- 3-1999


The farthest I have gotten in season mode was to the 4th inning with the Cubs. I have tried other teams, but that fixed nothing. I would really appreciate any help you could supply to me.

Thanks,
Steve

[MacGyver]

I would have to say bad RAM, especially if it is affecting more than one program.

You say you have over 500MB of "physical" RAM. You could take out a stick of RAM and see if that helps, then keep switching until the problem goes away. Then you know which stick is bad and needs to be replaced.

[player196]

Cool....I'm going to try that right now. Hopefully it's not one of my 256 MB sticks of RAM.

[player196]

That worked!!!! Thank you very much. I really appreiciate it.

THANKS AGAIN!!!!