It's rather intriguing that this post morphed into a warm discussion regarding the hardships of ESL, considering how it started
That said, I totally understand and respect you Jezabel. I've known english for more than half of my life, but it wasn't my native language either.

And I respect you more for French. God I gave that language up in one semester of high school.

I don't know whether I should be relieved  in finding that I'm not the only one with graphic driver crash issues, or annoyed that this is not just my device being incompetent. The Sims 3 never gave me any trouble (In this direction, anyways. Still problematic overall). This just renews my vow never to spend a dime on EAxis ever again.