8800 GT freezes, only during Windows gaming

Hi all!
Got my Mac Pro last week, added 8gb of OWC ram and 3x 750 F1s and yesterday a NEC 2470WNX. Could not be happier performance wise in OS X..
I have one problem though. I got the 8800 partially for some gaming performance asides from work, and have installed Medieval 2 Total War and Half-life 2 (on a windows physical disk, NTFS). In both games I get crictical freezes, solved only by reboot (hard or the machine actually restarts by itself sometimes, after a minute or two.)
Details:
- The mouse stops, but then gets moving again with everything else freezes. After a while, the mouse also stops
- The sound shifts from headphones to onboard speaker, for no apparent reason
- I had one pixelmayhem-crash, but besides from that the screen just freezes with no graphical errors.
- I tried to lower several gfx details, just not the rez (I WANT to play native 1920*1200)
I installed the NVIDIA drivers, with no change. The system is 10.5.2 with gfx update.
Thanks for any help!

Hello.
I'm sorry you're having Windows/MacPro problems. I installed my XP Home on a different hard drive than my OS X drive with Bootcamp Assistant, and on the install of XP, I let it totally format the drive with NTFS. It took a while, being a 120gb hard drive. I then installed XP, inserted the OS X Leopard disk and installed all the XP drivers (32-bit), validated windows via internet, and upgraded XP fully with all the critical stuff.
I installed:
• Avast! Anti-virus (Free), let it update itself fully
• CCLeaner (cleans, repairs & fixes registry, etc.)
• Spybot Search & Destroy (Free), let it updated itself fully
• PerfectDisk 8
• City of Heros (let it update itself fully)
After all this was done, I ran PerfectDisk and optimized the hard drive, scanned for Viruses, Spyware, cleaned/fixed registry.
Back on the Mac Side of things, I used the WinClone application to make a backup of that Windows XP drive to an HFS+ drive (image) in case anything goes wrong..I'll be able to restore it fully.
So far, so good. No crashes, hangs or weirdness. It lets me play my game(s), and when I'm done, its back into OS X. If something gets wonky, I'll format the drive and restore it with the Winclone.
I <3 my Mac Pro running OS X and Windows XP (32-bit)! No other computer I've ever owned can even begin to come close to this near-perfect machine!
-Mark
PS - If you don't want to use WinClone, and have another NTFS drive on your system, I'd highly recommend Acronis True Image Home for making a perfect image of your Windows Drive. If something goes wrong, you simply boot the machine off the True Image CD, and tell it where the saved image is, and it will format & restore your XP/Programs as good as new.

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