help in midtown madness 2

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when ever i finsh a game in midtown madness 2 instead of
it going back to teh game room it exits the lobby.. i
have disabled my firewall and i have re-installed the
heartbeat file

 

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w33d sack wrote:
>
> when ever i finsh a game in midtown madness 2 instead of
> it going back to teh game room it exits the lobby.. i
> have disabled my firewall and i have re-installed the
> heartbeat file

There are many suggestions here:

http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits/PortRoute.html

If you use dialup:

http://www.windows-help.net/windows98/comm-07.shtml

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w33d sack wrote:
>
> when ever i finsh a game in midtown madness 2 instead of
> it going back to teh game room it exits the lobby.. i
> have disabled my firewall and i have re-installed the
> heartbeat file

When you're reconnected to the lobby, your connection is somewhat
inundated with chat, pings, ads, etc.. I've seen routers and NICs that
lock up when this causes a buffer overrun. It can take a driver update
for the device, or a different model component to solve this one.

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+Elmo_Tech