I had the same problem, but was able to fix it by reinstalling and patching to 1.42, not 1.43. The only difference between 1.42 and 1.43 is an exploit fix, but I think you can still play with people who have 1.43.

Beats me what is causing the issue, but it must be something in the 1.43 patch.

This is about the 4th or 5th thread on the same issue. I suffer from it myself. Nobody has been able to come up with a solution.

http://forums.introversion.co.uk/defcon ... php?t=6074

Edit: I guess I should say it's a similar issue. I don't get an error message like that.

There was no blackbox.txt file. Defcon 1.43 built Jul 2 2007 Parsing archive main.dat...DONE WinSock started Client listening on port 5011 Parsing Coastline data (1776 islands) : 28ms Parsing International data (2753 islands) : 12ms Parsing City data (2745 cities) : 14ms Parsing archive sounds.dat.....

So, I used to play DEFCON on my previous system without any issues. However, on my new PC it simply doesn't work. If I click on New Game, Join Game, Tutorial, Rolling Demo, the game client locks up and then crashes to desktop. All my drivers are up-to-date. My specs are: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz Tw...

Why do people think this thread is an open invitation to bitch about players they don't like?

I challenge hobophobe.

Wow, that never occurred to me either.

This game was somewhat embarassing on my part. I got wrecked pretty good.

Oh well, it happens.

Yeah, I try to avoid Grim Reaper & Co. lately. They don't do anything too bad (nothing banworthy, anyway), but they can be irritating.

Bombers, bombers, bombers. Whether you use their conventional attack or nukes, bombers should be your main anti-battleship weapon. Their long attack range means they can engage battleships without putting themselves in danger. I usually like to have them fly behind my own battleship line. They can f...

Won against MegaDeathKill. Screenshot.

I challenge Navigator. You may surrender now, if you'd like.

I have some trouble hosting games on my system, even the regular way.

That's all well and good if you never want to play Diplomacy matches.

Accepted.

rus|Mike wrote:Well, each 3 days 1 of them will advance

The same is true for the current ladder.