You need to go to control panel and click on your Windows Security and then click on Windows Update and then click on View History. Now this is how to do with Vista, so if you are using XP you may have a different way which I'm not familiar with.

Doesn't sound like your game that's causing the problem, but rather your graphics card or hard drive (most likely your graphics card). What sounds like what is happening is your graphics card has either a. has not been updated with the latest driver or and most likely b. your graphics card has received an updated driver that it doesn't not ...