Thanks for the reply. It was exactly what i feared so i upgraded my graphics card over the weekend and the game now runs fine. Thanks again for the reply and help (of sorts).

Well, it is, what it says above and as you can imagine its a bit of a pain! Basically any time i try to do a 3D race in any part of the game other than on the track the game crashes. The 3D race starts to load and then crashes every time. The loading bar always says "stream read" when it d...