When multiplayer starts, emperor locks up

[CaineTanathos]

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

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When I had an ABIT BD7-II mainbord it worked

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[Nyarlathotep]

Could you attach your dxdiag ?

[CaineTanathos]

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[Nyarlathotep]

First of all, try to lower ingame graphical settings to low and make sure shadows is off.

Also, try to lower the refresh rate of your video card. It's currently set to 100Mhz, I would suggest to try "default" and increase from there if it works.

Make sure your MSI drivers are up to date. I've seen a lockup problem which was solved by updating MSI drivers and BIOS (be careful when you decide to upgrade your BIOS). As you already stated, it worked with your Abit motherboard..

Another thing you could try, is to put -s behind the games shortcut (it turns off sound)..

[CaineTanathos]

tried the lowest setting of the ingame graphics.

ya know single player skirmish games work

no new Bios updates exist for this mainbord yet

its when you get the connecting windows then emperor locks up

I installed the latest drivers for the sis chipset

[Nyarlathotep]

Have you tried to lower your adapter refresh rate to the default and the -s behind the games shortcut ?

[CaineTanathos]

the -s no succesTommorow I will reinstall windows XP , againI have my abit BD7II back, but I have still the same problem :(Windows doesn't hang, only Emperor, but you still have to reset it ,because the connecting screen of Emperor stays on screen.

[Nyarlathotep]

How did the reinstall go ?

[Desert_Eagle25]

try defragmenting ur comp. I did so and mine works great now.