I rececntly just started having this problem after a season and half of another the game started crashing got to the point of restoring the pc.
Ireinstalled windowsxp home edition then video drivers and sound drivers form their websites installed madden 2006 along with directx 9.0b that came on the game disc it plays perfectly no problems. I then created a restore point installed service pack 2 and directx 9.0c tried to play the game it crashes to the desktop the game will start and look to be doing fine but once you try to go and play in actual game on the field it crashes after the loading screen it boots to the desktop. I have been dealing with EAsports tried reinstalling video cards after removing them of course no effect all drivers are up to date according to driver detective.com no background stuff running as its a fresh install of windows nothing else on the pc clean temp folder in windows and local setting temp folder. This game did work at one time with 9.0c i had all this installed when i played the game and it worked for 30 some games then all the sudden it won't play the game.directx finds no problems and there are no error messages other games play fine like world of warcraft mvp baseball 2005 and nba live 2005 so whats the deal with madden all the sudden.
