I was having a rather severe problem, where nearly EVERY time I went to the Internet multiplayer window, my system would completely reboot just when it seemed the serverlist update was complete. Sometimes it would happen sooner, sometimes not at all.

Well, I only wanted to play one server, so I dug out the manual-add command line option, and have used that ever since.

The new problem is, when I leave the server after connecting, the game locks. trying ANY method to quit the game or leave the server, freelancer locks. I get to the desktop, end task, it ends, but the thread remains in processes. Can't kill the process at ANY point, up to and including alt-tabbing (which works fine in/out) and trying to end task or end process when the game isn't locked.. no dice.

The only way to get rid of the freelancer.exe process is to reboot.. not via shut-down (though I think that worked a couple times), but by an actual reset, as the system simply won't reboot when told with that hung process.. Though, if I do nothing about it, it tends to hard-boot on its own as it did when going into multi-internet. And I can't restart freelancer until the process has been eliminated.

This is truely annoying, and as of yesterday I started going to the character select screen, alt-tabbing out, and leaving it where it is till I'm ready to go back (running in the background).

Anyone else have similar problems? or, more importantly, solutions?

And oh-goody, I have all the 'suspect hardware'.. cept the AMD cpu's

Geforce 2 mx400 (latest official dets)
SB Live! (XP original drivers, about to update those as well, new ones hit 2/28)

WinXP
1.4Ghz Celeron
Asus Cusl2 MoBo
256 Meg ram
LinkSys 10/100pci +Ext 4prt Router +Ext Cable modem

ZoneAlarm pro
Norton Sysworks (largely disabled)

Edited by - rcohks on 10-03-2003 13:13:49