locks up only in one game

My friends 1.4 Athlon....he just bought it. Everything in it is new. CPU, motherboard, RAM, HD, Video, Sound, everything. The system runs great except in one game, Asheron's Call, the online game. IT runs fine for a few minutes, then just freezes. The whole system just stops. But, playing other games, such as Unreal Tournament or such, it runs perfectly, I played for an hour, just to make sure that it wouldn't lock up in that game. So, now, I am convinced it's something with that game. Asheron's Call is my game, so there is nothing wrong with instalation or anything, I did the updates, which are a must in order to play. Please help....

does it work online ok??
i would suspect either modem or some software related to the modem...

I'm 99% sure that the internet works all the time, I used it for about 10/15 searching for stuff....and I think they were playing Unreal Tournament Online for about an hour...but I will make sure tomorrow. Could it be anything else?

Is it just this online game? Have you tried other online games? I'm not sure if you were saying that you had played Unreal online for an hour, you know, just to test it. Replacing the winsock.dll file and/or rebuilding the winsock2 key in the registry will solve alot of online probs.

How do I go about replacing and/or rebuilding these files?

I have just about the same setup, and all my games works fine tell I got MAX PAYNE <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

Then it would freeze up every 10 secs. So I found a fix.

If you are running the geforce Detonator3 drivers, reinstall them, if you are running directx 8.0a reinstall it and configure with dxdiag.

This cleared up everything for me.

Might do the same for you.

How do I config the DXDiag, I know you can disable and enable direct draw and 2 other things, is that what you mean?

goto start -> run

type dxdiag

and setup DirectX, this is the tool to setup directx.

setup the sound and graphics.

you want to setup the direct draw not disabl it, theres other options like sound and more graphic things.

What version directX are you running?

To rebuild the winsock2 key:
From the Start menu, click Run.
In the Run dialog box, type: Regedit. Click OK.
In the Registry Editor window, locate Hkey local machine.
Next to Hkey local machine, click the plus sign (+).
Next to System, click the plus sign (+).
Next to CurrentControlSet, click the plus sign (+).
Next to Services, click the plus sign (+).
Click to select the Winsock2 key, and then delete it by clicking Edit, and then Delete.
Click Yes to confirm file delete, and then close Regedit
Then uninstall and reinstall dial up networking through windows setup in add remove programs. You don't need to reboot between removing and reinstalling dialup networking but it should prompt you to reboot after you remove it. Just click no.

You can extract a new copy of the winsock.dll from the windows cd. wsock32.dll is another one to try replacing for internet problems.

What os are you running? I am assuming Win 98 or Win ME