DDER_OUTOFVIDEOMEMORY (8876017C) multiplayer problem

[Frankymole]

Sometimes when I host multiplayer with more than 6 factions armies, just before the battle map loads I get this weird error dialogue and the game crashes -

"Failed to load hard-sprites"
DDER_OUTOFVIDEOMEMORY (8876017C)"

I haven't changed anything in my PC rig or options.

PC is: Compaq Presario 061, OS= XP-Home 5.1 build 2600,SP whatever-the-latest-one-is (none outstanding on Windows Update as of 30-Aug-2005),

DirectX9.0c (4.09.000.0904),
240Gb Hard Drive,
2.2GHz AMD Athlon64 3400+ MMX 3DNow,
1022MB RAM, Nvidia Geforce6200 Turbo Cache 2MX400
drivers: Nv4_disp.dll version 6.14.0010.7777 (English)


I have adjusted my AGP setting to approx half of my processor size (i.e. to 1064Mb) which worked for a while. But now I've just had the error when I've watched a replay of a recent SUCCESSFUL MP session (strange!?!?!?).

Can anyone help? Please? Any suggestions at all?