So I start up emperor, then I click on the multiplayer tab,custom game. I join an open game, so the game starts, you can see the connecting window (so before map loading) and then it locks up , I reinstalled windows XP and emperor , nothing helps and it worked before on my other computer my system: P4 1.8 MSI 645 ultra-c 512Mb PC2700 samsung orginal Elsa Geforce 3 Ti200 --- When I had an ABIT BD7-II mainbord it worked ---