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I have bi installed I also have 1.2 installed.
How did you do that?Reinstalling will likely not, in itself, cure that. It sounds like a network or firewall (e.g., ZoneAlarm, etc.) issue. Possible a router change.
If your machine was running OK, then suddenly this happened and you installed nothing new in the interium, but had MS Automatic Updates on, it can be a MS patch issue. MS does not brag about it, but they regularly screw up computers of unknowing users. So so often. And users never even suspect. That may or may not be your case, but it is why I absolutely forbid people (friends and family) whose machines I fix to use Auto-Update.
You can manually update instead... then you can have a better idea if an update causes a problem (again, MS screwed up as many as 10% of the world's MS XP PCs last month). And two years ago, they actually put spyware in a trojan MS Media Player update that secretly deleted user files that MS "didn't like"... but court action forced a near-instant reversal and emergency worldwide 'secret' update to remove it. So like Ronald Reagan used to say: Trust, but Verify! You can trust MS to update your machine, but do it on your own explicit schedule, and verify that EVERYTHING is working properly afterwards (test for an hour or two ).
I could recommend uninstalling the XP network code and reinstalling it. However, don't do it just yet. I've repaired similar (but not the same) problems in other games (notable Red Alert 2 and AoE2) that way. 1. Describe any utilities you have on your system (NAV, TinyFirewall, ZoneAlarm, FixIt Utities, etc.).
2. Post a DXDiag output (Start - run - DXDiag - run all tests - Save all Information - copy - paste into post), and preferences.txt
3. Are there any sound problems on your machine, even if you think them insignificant
4. Have you ever manually altered the default services on your machine (if you don't know what I'm talking about, then answer is probably no)?
5. What is the maker of your network adapter (exact model and hardware revision number , if possible, and the driver you used for it).
Network drivers are always assumed by people to be "solid". Not true. So so so many issues and bug and fixes and problems. Networking is so complicated... in short, what you describe CAN occur simply because of a network driver. Ensure you update it (and look at the update readme... network drivers are often updated because of specific, but unlikely, issues like this).
Maybe make a post in the MP forum, since I think most people don't read this tech section unless they have a 'problem', and so someone who might spot the issue never sees it here.