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Also, it still locks up while sitting in a Custom Game Lobby, just flat out locks up and I have to CTRL+ ALT + Delete. Adds another level of frustration to the existing pile of frustrations(Not 100% chance to get everyone into your game, etc, you know the whole shabang).
I too have the same issue. I played fine for the last two days, but now whenever I start the game, I hit escape to bypass all the introduction videos and it just hangs up. If I get past that and click "Login Now" on the internet panel, again, hangs up completely. Once I did get as far as a Custom Match and only 2 Demigods were showing, The Rook, and Sedna. I then promptly did Verify to the game, akin to what I do for Steam if I mess up a modification to the game files, etc(When ins