SW Battlefront 2 HELP!

[dashmay]

Hi, wondering if anybody can help me out.

battelfront 2 doesnt wanna work on my laptop anymore and i have absolutely no clue why. used to work but now it crashes whenever i try to start any new game. the menu screen loads and i can fiddle change almost all options no probs but as soon as i hit training or conquest or whatever to actually play my whole system overloads. the other strange thing is the only option i cant change is the sound mixer config or FX without it completely freezing. i tried doing that as a suggestion from somebody to stopping overload but the damn thing wont even let me do that.

ok, ive got a fairly low end system but my specs are
pentium M 1.6 GHz
ATI radeon 9700 64mb
1g ram
XP sp3
Realtek ac97 audio device

ive tried all the patches and tried updating all my drivers but still no avail. i also read the PC games FAQ but not sure if any of that applies cause the game doesnt work whether i run it as a virtual image or from the disk.

anyway, as i said it used to work but now its gone to buggery. any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

cheers