Crashing in Multiplayer HELP!!

[Shafty]

Unf. I'm having a serious problem with JK 2 in multiplayer. The single player game works fine (so far, anyway, I'm up to level 4), but the multiplayer game crashes almost immediately after I join a game. I'll join a server, everything will load, I'll join the game, I'll appear, and crash almost immediately. The video will freeze, the sound will loop, and then i'll get dumped back to the desktop with the gamma all messed up. Here's my config:

 

WindowsXP Pro (my account has admin status)

Athlon 1.33

512MB RAM

VIA KT133A chipset

ELSA GeForce2 Ultra 64MB

SB Live 5.1

600MB free hdd space

 

 

I've got all the latest drivers. Here are the things I've tried to get it work:

 

Reinstall JK2

Reinstall video drivers

Backtrack to last WHQL'd video drivers

Reinstall sound drivers

Shut down every program running in the background

Start JK2 in 'Safe Mode' from the link in the program group

Toggle pretty much every option (gl ext, res, texture quality, etc, etc)

I read in another post on here that somebody had luck by replacing the OpenAL32.dll in the Windows/system32 directory with the one the JK2 folder, so I tried that, too.

 

No love.

 

There is exactly ONE server that has let me play multiplayer without crashing. http://www.puregamer.com server, sabers only, works for me. Maybe I'll crash after an hour or two of playing on that server. Any other server/gametype causes me to crash almost as soon as the game starts. Anybody else have any ideas? Similar problems? help? please?