Locking up in tactical combat

[Evil Bill]

Hi. Tactical combat is freezing (requiring a three-finger salute) with annoying regularity -- small fleet, large fleet, even during auto-resolved combat. Not every time, but maybe once every 7-10 times.

My system is a 1 GHz Athlon, Asus GeForce 2 w/32 MB RAM, 128 MB RAM. I'm patched to 1.27. I'm running Windows ME (bleah).

I did a search of the group but didn't turn up anything similar -- but I can't be the only one, surely. It seems to have only started happening after the Last patch.

Help/advice would be appreciated.

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"Good, bad--I'm the guy with the gun." Ash