Multiplayer crash with time stopping

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We have been attempting to play a five player Grand Campaign. However, the game on my machine never started on January 1, 1492, while time ticked away for everyone else. We restarted, rejoined and then had it happen twice more on my machine at the change of a month during the first year. We love the game and we would love to play but this is a show stopper. It happened in a single player game after I restarted my machine and played my own game after we gave up on the five player game. Any ideas?
I have:
Win98 SE on an IBM PC 300PL, Pentium III 500 Mhz,
128 MB RAM
Voodoo3 16 MB Video Card
Sound Blaster Live!
3Com Etherlink XL TPO 10 MB 3C900B-TPO NIC
US Version

All five of us had CDs and no other applications running. Great game, any help appreciated.

 

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Go get a Cpu from NASA.....I heard MP is way to Heavy for the Average CPU...But rumours and truth are 2 different things. Hell i dont even the game yet.



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