Hello. I read the announcement stating to check the FAQ on the SF Wiki, but is appears that I cannot load those links. Every time I click, I get the message, "cannot load page- ensure the address is correct". Either way, SF loads fine, but when I click "find servers", it immediately has a sound loop, and stops responding. The only way to get to stop is to kill it in the task manager, where it appears to be not responding. Once it closes, Steam stops responding, too. I got it to work once, using the "fix" in another topic here, but all it allowed me to do was see the servers; whenever I tried to get into one, it either said "Disconnected: Client dropped by server", "Disconnected: Error verifying Steam User ID", or "Disconnected: Server uses a different class table". Now I know this isn't all me. I used to play this game... On 1.9.3 I was a regular- but on 1.9.4.1, It has only ever loaded for me once. So, I pleadingly ask for assistance, either to stop the crashing, or to fix the disconnections.

EDIT: It turns out, its not just the "Find Servers" tab. Any button, from Create Serer, Options, Or Exit causes this crash. I have tried reinstalling this many times, and none of my other games have this problem. It appears to run on the first time of installation, but crashes after that. The last crash wiped out my internet security feature.

Use the fix, exit steam, delete everything in your steam folder apart from steam.exe and the steamapps folder, make sure you're joining a server that's running the latest version of SF. There are still several out there that still have 193 files on them.

I'm not an expert but that's what I'd do.