choopy,
can't find anything other than 'make sure you have the latest drivers' - which I have. What am I missing, care to spend 20 secs of your time to post a link?

just look how nice I am:

Oh, you can go around it by control+alt+delling Sacrifice when the splash screen comes up. Then the Splash screen dissapears and u will get the 'close program screen' then hit cancel and it will work. It's stupid that you have to do it this way though =[

I hear very little mentioned about the ridiculous hang time you get between screens in multiplayer. If you try to join a game, for example, that is full (3/4 but someone joins before you do) then it takes sometimes almost a minute or more to get back to the main chat/game room. Same goes if you once a game has ended...first couple times it went on so long, I thought my computer had crashed.

Also, it seems that this game has an insane disconnection ratio while in games. People are always getting dropped. Yes, I am on a 56k, but I have never seen a problem like this in the other multiplayer games I play. And I have also heard of others with DSL and cable modems complaining about the same thing.