Not exactly like this:
I was playing Fallout 3 about 2 months ago and I was having massive stuttering problems on their cutscenes; but I had to re-encode all the Bink and Smacker videos from 1024 x 768 down to 640x480 and everything worked. I’ve had some issues installing old games but if I can get them to install they usually work perfectly. FL was the first one to really cause this problem; every 3-6 months I’ve had a hard crash but that was typical windows crap that I’ve dealt with ever since I got a Win 95 machine 10-15 years ago

I’ve never run into this constant Hard Crash issue before, even on older games like Baldur’s Gate 1/2/ToB or Icewind Dale 1/2. Though being able to fly around in space no problem and only having the freezing occur when I was docked and not in the more intense 3D environment was a little odd to me. I would’ve figured if things were going to go nutty it would’ve been in the 3D environment, not in the minor cutscenes and FMV sequences on bases and battleships, hell it even froze in the middle of me buying oxygen to trade at one point. So I figured it might be something like the old gold box games where you can run them in windows but they will crash out almost instantly because your processor runs them too fast and they error out (I’m sure the cause is much more complex than that I’m just not 100% on why they crash like that).