Party crashing - HELP! I'm about to go postal!!!

[teddyFBI]

Alright, I made a similar thread about this 2 months ago HERE but didn't get any closer to solving the problem, and now Party has released 2 upgrades but the problem is as bad as ever!! I need help. I'm going out of my mind.

<font color="blue">Cliff's Notes: Since early March, the Party client crashes INCESSANTLY on me. Sometimes after just 5 minutes of playing, sometimes longer -- <u>i THINK it may have something to do with dual-core processors, so I'd be especially interested in hearing from people who use dual-cores</u>.</font>


Symptoms
Basically, with no warning at all, the party software will start the "Internet Delay...15 seconds...trying to reconnect" dialogue, but then it gets down to "Connection Lost", and never reconnects. Other times, the software will simply stop responding altogether. Here's a screenshot of what it looks like when that happens:


In either case, as soon as I realize it has crashed, I Ctrl-alt-delete kill the Partygaming.exe process, and re-open the software as fast as I can, hoping that my hands are still live; i don't even want to think about how many thousands of dollars I've lost on no-DP NL tables b/c of this.

**My own trouble-shooting attempts / ruling things out**

1) A simple system reboot isn't the answer; i've re-booted started to play on Party without starting ANY other programs and i still get this crash (btw, this computer is only 2 months old, and top-of-the-line...and the problem only started happening since early March...p.s. i also uninstalled and re-installed the party software a few days ago; doesn't make it any better.

2) I notice that these crashes are especially frequent when the Party lobby pops up; for example, u know how when you close a table, the lobby automatically pops up? Well, I've noticed that the crashes are very frequent whenever that happens, or whenever I maximize the lobby from the task bar menus at the bottom of my screen

3) I know it's not a prob w/ my internet connection b/c I'm not getting crashes like this on ANY other site.

4) Here's where things get especially weird: I get this very same error on TWO of my computers &gt;&gt; both of them are brand new top of the line and have dual-core AMD 3800 processors. But on my 2-yr old Dell 9300 (single-core), no problems whatsoever -- unfort one of the problem computers is my desktop computer w/ multi-monitors (aka my poker-playing computer)

Given that the exact same problem happens on TWO of my computers, I find it very hard to believe that SOMEONE out there isn't having the same issues and can't believe it hasn't been mentioned on the forums. Someone out there -- plz come to my rescue.

***p.s. there was recently a thread in the software forum where Juk described a different problem he was having with the Party software...that it was lagging the more tables he opened up and would eventually crash...and it looks like he finally figured out a solution was to turn off font-smoothing. Just FYI, my problem seems to be more or less unrelated since turning off font smoothing seems not to have had any effect and the crashing problem i'm having seems to be just as bad when i've got 1 table open, as when I've got 6 tables open (HECK, it even happens when i'm just OBSERVING tables!!)