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Well, I now have other two other systems with win7, and it works fine on them (laptops). On those other two win7 systems, I have found that if I restart the system after every game it works always. If I don't it hangs, works, hangs, works... I think it is those old nvidia 7600 cards. It gotta be. Thanx for your help guys. I now know that RA is indeed quite stable on vista/win7.

The map we have only played is hjk6. Maybe is something wrong with that map? Well, I have another win7 system here (laptop). We shall try here again.

What I am trying to say is that wsock32.dll is what is not working well on Vista/Win7. That is what I suspect. Because the crashes only comes in network games. Seemingly. We have never had any WinXp systems crashing when running RA.

It cannot be. I have tried networked game with winxp machine and vista/win7 and the winxp system have never, never crashed regardless of map. Only vista and win7 systems. And I am pretty sure it has to do with the network layer in some way.

The map? That seems unlogical for me. How come? It cannot be a bug in a map? It is the hjk map. The symptoms are that it often gets slower and slower and suddenly everything freezes, the sound too. The situations are always complicated with massive troops engaged in fighting and/or moving. It cannot be this file wsock32.dll which mess things up?

The crashes come only when playing network games. Seemingöy cannot reproduce them in single games. For the moment. So the crashes seems to have to with the network layer. Any ideas?

Sorry to say, it is not stable. It crushed again when trying today. I think there is nothing more to do? I will try later on 3 other machines with vista and win7. Than I know for sure. Those machines does not have nvidia cards.

But do you guys stress the game hard? I do that and then it freezes sooner or later. It is inevitable. (hjk wuth several domputer players) And now I have confirmed the freezing on two different computers with different operating systsems, Vista and Win7. When loaded with winxp. It works. Well, both systems have nvidia 7600 graphics cards - but with fresh drivers. It could be that there is something strange with those card. But I doubt that, indeed. The freexing is very, very hard and deep. There is nothing you can do but reset the system. Whatever is happening, it is no trivial thing in the system. It is a fundamental fuckup in the system. Merged post Hmm. Thanx. I have now updated the dirext package from microsoft. I will try a new game now... I will report before long here Merged post Incredible! Thanx!!! I managed to finish a heavy skirmish game. Finally I beat the computers. For the first time on a win 7 system. The directx update from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&displaylang=en might just I have done trick! Tomorrow I will test a real LAN game here with win 7 systems. Thanx! It is 01.23 here in gothenburg, sweden good night will report tomorrow

I have done that, it does not matter

Now I have tried FullRA+ on two different computers and it crashes, both vista and win 7. If I install the computers with Win XP, there are no crashes. I run RA95.exe in 98 mode and with administrator rights, 640x480, 256 colors, set the affinity to just one proc And I delete the RA95.LCF and the rename _RA95.LCF to RA95.LCF. U allow Back buffer on Video Memory and hardware flled bits, 640x480 I make a skirmish game, hjk 3vs3, with 4 computer players. Sooner or later the computer hard freezes. I have to reset and reboot. Can you play that intensive game without freezes? I cannot. It is always crash on vista and win7. Do I do anything wrong? plz help thanx the hardware is: system 1: p4 hyperthreaded 3 GHz, 4GB, Nvida 7600 GT system 2: c2d e7500, 3GHz, 4GB, Nvidia 7600 GS