game locks up completely, but only online

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

As the title says, the game locks up completely when I'm online. Off line it works great. Can't get out of the tower and hangar online. I have to use Ctrl+Alt+Delete to kill the game, and until I get it killed, the mouse cursor is either locked or hidden. I just downloaded and installed a fresh copy of the game. I do have a dxdiag file.

[Skuzzy]

Need that DXDIAG.  Also need to know the game configuration.  Video settings, Graphic Detail settings, high resolution textures, cutsom sounds, skins.....

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

Email on the way. I did notice that I get no messages about textures loading. I have not been online long enough to download any skins, I've never been off the ground, or for that matter, anywhere but the tower and the hangar. I have not changed the default settings much, I did download the high resolution textures, and install them. No custom sounds, and the acceleration is set to none. For what it is worth, I have no problems running SHIV at high settings, nor with MS CFS 3 + OFF.