Lots of Spell Effects Crash/Hang the game

[Legacy_Dante2377]

               So my laptop plays NWN perfectly 99% of the time, but if I hit a spot where a bunch of monsters spawn with spell effects (like spell mantle) or if they cast graphics heavy effects all at once (ie. 3-4 hellball/greater ruin), the game will hang and then crash - I get the Win7 spinning circle and then it asks me to close/wait, etc.  I also occasionally get that if there is a map with too much white (e.g. Ice/Snow maps) and a few effects.

The laptop is a dual-core T4500 2.3 Ghz per with 4 GB RAM.  The graphic card is the embedded Mobile Intel 4 Series Express.

I've had a lot of the basics already done - eg turn off shiny water.

Are there any other settings that anyone thinks might help me?  Or is the graphics card just a bit too underpowered for a bunch of spell effects hitting at once?

thanks in advance for any thoughts..

 
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Dante2377]

               I had detailed combat logging (the entire combat window not just chat was being logged as I like to look at battles after the fact) enabled and after disabling it, haven't had any crashes.  Just thought people might like to know in case they run into the same issue on theirs.