Game closes out when attempting to join a multiplayer game

[fmbailey]

This has become a recent issue when I've attempted to join a multiplayer game. I'll enter in the right password, select the room, see it briefly, and then the game decides to close out to the desktop. Normally this happens when someone else tries to join the private game before me or at the same time.

All the ports are open on both Router and firewall and this has only happened once or twice before where the fix we came up with was to change the name of the room and all was well afterward.

I've been running it on a laptop with Windows XP service Pack 3. The Ram is 1.24GB, Processor a Celeron M 1.60GHz, Graphics Card is an Intel 915GM with 96MB of memory. Again up until recently there have been little to no issues save the inability to host a multiplayer game, single player seems unaffected. Attached is the error that the warzone2100.RPT file gives me for each crash like this.

[Zarel]

Okay. You're trying to download a map, and it's failing because the directory it's trying to download to isn't writable.

...I dunno how that's possible, but you can get around it by just playing games with the bundled maps.

[fmbailey]

I seem to recall this being an issue with another program I was trying to run. It's some kind of weird file permissions issue. Even if you can create to the default install directory the system doesn't always allow write permissions to [what seems to be] random directories under the root drive. It's very strange and doesn't make a whole lot of sense.