games hang in winxp

[darwin]

greetings!

i am obviously new to winxp and here. searching through
the support site didnd't yield any answer to my problem.
thus, i'm hoping that one you here might now a thing or
two how i might solve my problem or where i might get some
help, articles and such, to help me solve my problem.

to get to the point, i'm a gamer and i'm having problems
with a game i'm playing. i'm playing Divine Divinity and
the problem is that the game keeps on crashing or
freezing. my drivers are all updated, so's the game. what
picks my curiosity is that when i was using winME as OS,
Divine Divinity was stable-no hangs or freezes. but
because norton system works messed up my winME i had to
remove it and installed winXP. and that's when the game
became unstable.

i have a via chipset and i'm guessing it might be the
cause of my problem. i saw this page in the windows
support-261606 video hangs when running 3d accelerated
programs. the page is concerned with windows 2000. i have
been searching for a page that would talks of winxp with
the same problem. but my searches yielded no result.

do help me, please.

thanks.