Need help - problem with Multiplayer

[Sundancer 0]

I have been gone for awhile....has anyone found any type of help or fix for the problem of the -

 

game "freezing"(get black screen and only way to get out of it is to Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot), when clicking on the Multiplayer page in game options

 

...and/or...

 

the game Giving an "Illegal Ops" error message when trying to launch a multiplayer game from either GameSpy or the new TCP/IP SFlauncher???

 

I know I have seen on SimHQ forums, at least two others with this same problem...did you guys ever find a fix for this???

 

I have changed video card drivers...that didnt help.

 

I checked to make sure my Video card and network card are on separate IRQ addresses and they are not sharing an IRQ-

video card is on - IRQ 11

network card is on - IRQ 10

 

I have not done any "card tweaking"...just got new GF4 TI 4600... can anyone tell me the best way to tweak this card??? I have the latest version of RivaTuner.

 

In game...I have all settings maxxed, mirrors on etc. In single player(off-line) play everything works perfectly.

 

I really like this sim so far and I absolutely love to fly on-line multiplayer and this is driving me crazy...any help would be greatly appreciated

 

Thanks

[Dagger 21]

Not sure about Lamespy but alot of us been flying at Hyperlobby and I haven't had any troubles there.Might give them a try.

[Sundancer 0]

Problem solved...it turned out to be a Windows "Updates" problem.

 

When I reformatted and re-installed everything fresh...I neglected to go to microsoft.com and DL & install ALL of the available updates for Windows 98SE. As soon as I had Dl'd and installed ALL Windows 98SE updates that were available...Strike Fighters Multiplayer worked just fine again.

 

This MUST be done for Strike Fighters Multiplayer to work properly.

 

Hope this may help any others who were having a similar problem with Multiplayer

[+TK_ThirdWire 0]

Sundancer,

 

Great to hear you got the problem solved! :)

 

TK

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