Well, I’m very happy to report that the Stalker crashes were fixed under Vista x64 - completely - by marking the executable as LargeAddressAware. Yay!
For me, the Stalker experience has been one of two different games - the first a taut, fearful experience, when saving might actually cause the loss of progress, thus providing a powerful incentive to [...]

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Since earlier this evening, I was able to play STALKER for an hour without it crashing when I tried to save !!!!!?!!!!!
I have no idea why this works, and I shudder to think what’s likely happening under the covers when this works - it’s the oddest workaround ever:
I marked the Stalker executable as Large Address [...]

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (from here on in, just Stalker, okay?) is a game I’d love to hate more.
What crack am I smoking this week? Well, it’s like this:
Imagine, if you will, that Word crashed every fourth time you saved a document. That would be annoying. Saving is a key part of creating a document - you save at important [...]

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