Noob here, but I thought I'd share, having just bought the game this weekend after playing the Demo for a week or two.
I had the same problem--game locks up after 2-4 minutes, music keeps playing, but the computer doesn't respond otherwise and I have no option but a hard power down. Very frustrating.
So I downloaded the DirectX 9.0c drivers, as recommended, but that didn't fix it. Deinstalled King's Bounty, reinstalled (from GamersGate again), tried playing without the patch, still got the problem.
So I decided to roll back to the previous Nvidia driver--I went back to 178.24, after having recently installed the 181.20 drivers for 32-bit Vista.
And, voila! The game played fine. It gave me a CTD after about two hours of playing (I'm hoping that patching it might have fixed that), but it no longer gave the results identical to what we both experienced--and I definitely reproduced mine 5-8 times before I finally solved it.
I've seen a few similar complaints to this one over the last two pages, and all of them seem to be recent--suggesting maybe something about the game doesn't sit real well w/the very latest Nvidia drivers for 32-bit windows Vista? (I'm running an 8800 GTS 320MB GPU)
I'm happy to supply more specs if it's of interest, but I'd suggest checking your Nvidia driver and see what you're running? It might have just been coincidence with me, but I don't think so.
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