Random crashes, no apparent cause but I have an event viewer log

[Tami Kovacs]

Dungeon Keeper II is randomly crashing, anytime between 5 and 60 minutes into a game. I used the instructions on this Neoseeker thread to get the game working initially, and I'm about to try out the Unsafedisc application to see if that stabilizes the program.
The error always manifests the same way - everything but the cursor and sound freezes for a few seconds, then about 3/4 of my screen goes black, then I get the 'DKII.exe has crashed' dialogue, and I have to exit the program.
I am running 64-bit Windows 7, with an ATI Radeon HD 6850 video card (fully-updated) and a quad-core CPU. The version of Dungeon Keeper II that I have is an ISO obtained from Demonoid.me of the Silver Edition, and the version is shown as 1.7 at the initial menu.

For a while, I couldn't find anything related to the crash...but look at what I found in the event viewer....

Fault bucket 343794871, type 1
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: DKII.exe
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 31313931
P4: DKII.exe
P5: 0.0.0.0
P6: 31313931
P7: c0000005
P8: 00190ecb
P9:
P10:

Attached files:
C:\Users\[username deleted]\AppData\Local\Temp\WER5ACD.tmp.appcompat.txt
C:\Users\[username deleted]\AppData\Local\Temp\WER5BD7.tmp.WERInternalMetadat a.xml
C:\Users\[username deleted]\AppData\Local\Temp\WER5BE8.tmp.hdmp
C:\Users\[username deleted]\AppData\Local\Temp\WER630A.tmp.mdmp

These files may be available here:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive \AppCrash_DKII.exe_7225e8d080f0aa955d80242f789d0cb e074db3e_01d9eef0

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 7cdf50b7-a327-11e0-bd64-005056c00008
Report Status: 0

Fault bucket 343794871, type 1
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: DKII.exe
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 31313931
P4: DKII.exe
P5: 0.0.0.0
P6: 31313931
P7: c0000005
P8: 00190ecb
P9:
P10:

Attached files:

These files may be available here:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive \AppCrash_DKII.exe_7225e8d080f0aa955d80242f789d0cb e074db3e_01d9e3d9

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 3e66c1f2-a328-11e0-a9c7-005056c00008
Report Status: 0

Fault bucket 304239433, type 1
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: DKII.exe
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 31313931
P4: DKII.exe
P5: 0.0.0.0
P6: 31313931
P7: c0000005
P8: 00194a9a
P9:
P10:

Attached files:
C:\Users\[username deleted]\AppData\Local\Temp\WERE85B.tmp.appcompat.txt
C:\Users\[username deleted]\AppData\Local\Temp\WERE87B.tmp.WERInternalMetadat a.xml
C:\Users\[username deleted]\AppData\Local\Temp\WERE88C.tmp.hdmp
C:\Users\[username deleted]\AppData\Local\Temp\WERED4D.tmp.mdmp

These files may be available here:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive \AppCrash_DKII.exe_25b64596162ac3511decc1742c57fe1 9beadd2_01d9d893

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 668f1bab-a328-11e0-a9c7-005056c00008

I don't know how to read event viewer logs, but if someone here does, do you know what it means?

[Keeper Nocturnus]

There's no problem with your system.The only problem is that DK2 is unstable on every system starting from Windows XP to Windows 7.

[Tami Kovacs]

I managed to get it working a bit better with instructions from this forum, but now all of a sudden I can't load a game or start a new game. It's annoying me because I'm at Creep in Stonekeep and that's got to be one of the most tedious levels that there is.