FlynnArrowstarr: Hmm... NWN 2 should be putting as much stress, if not more, as the IE games. I'm still leaning toward the PSU being the culprit though. For giggles, try IWD 1 & 2 and see if they exhibit any similar behavior. Thanks =)
Flynn
KitchenK: IWD 2 vanilla no patch no EE version got through to the portion of the character creator where you are designing the appearance of the character and your 3D model pops up it freezes and crashes :(
it seems we've narrowed it down to some kind of 3d Infinity Engine graphical issue, I'm 65% sure on that
I think you may be right, and I could definitely have been wrong about it being the power supply. Do you get any sort of Windows error when it crashes?
Also, you mentioned playing Xcom through DOSBox. What filter are you using (DDraw, OpenGL, etc.) and what happens if you change any of the filters?
Flynn