A few months ago I installed the patch because my battlefields didn't have any bosses. It solved that problem and I didn't encounter any others. Everything worked smoothly.

Until two weeks ago. Both in Act I and in Act II (haven't gotten to Act III yet), loading the battlefield leads to a crash. I have read in another topic that it might just take a while when it has to load for the first time, but that's not it. In Act I the battlefields have loaded already, so it doesn't have to create, just load.

When I click 'load battlefield', I get the loading screen. The first half of the loading bar is already red then. It frequently happens that the program just shuts down after a minute there. It sometimes happens that it doesn't respond at all anymore (I've tried waiting for half an hour once, to no avail). This happens every time, no matter if I've shut down the game properly the previous time.

Does anyone know if and how I can solve this problem?


(I use Windows XP prof by the way, in case that information is needed)