hi sorry I didnt read all three pages of posts but I thought I would throw in some extra detail. my game started doing the same thing yesterday and it was working for about a month just fine v. 2.43 and now it stops on connecting to local server. . . same as his I dont have any idea wat the problem is but at the same time my internet stopped working I dont know if that has anything to do with it my wife can connect to the internet on her lap top but I cant on mine it connects but only local connectiong. meaning it says local only when it should say local and internet. hopefully this will help.