it seems some pretty random stuff is going on here. now the white map is gone, but im still getting the freezing, and other oddities which seem to get weirder every time i turn my PC on. i can only predict that there is a pointer somewhere that is pointing to unallocated/wrong memory addresses, or something similar, and this is producing the random behaviour. it's very frustrating. the latest thing is all of the module titles being rendered wrongly. i mean the rectangles like that at the title of the in game menu that says "Options", look like the buttons(red with rounded corners), and are rendered about 20pix off center to the left. now it isn't doing that any more. and i haven't done a thing. i grabbed a screenshot, so i have proof of this.