CFS3 freezes at end game...

[RAAF453_Shep]

 G'day all,
well I am having a strange error in CFS3.  I can fly offline , perfectly. But in Multiplayer , it freezes when I try to exit a game ,  and cannot host a room , for the same  problem,  it freezes  .... to the point of contol/alt/delete to end it.
  I reinstalled the game 4 times now, and removed all traces , between them... but no good.  Same  problem.

any thoughts ?

[RAAF453_Shep]

well after 2 more  uninstalls & reinstalls,   it does the same, only from Multiplayer. Now ,  before this... I was able to Host a 16  slot game,  and had  great fun.  Now reduced to playing quick combat  on the desktop , , because it freezes up , whether or not I even log in , I thought  possibly a glitch in my firewall ( previously always on , w/o a problem ) so , I disabled it... and got the same  problem. I have shut down all running programs, antivirus ,fw, and background services.... to no avail.
I  guess a ReFormat is in order. Bugga.

[RAAF453_Shep]

Well lads  it seems  that a FORMAT was the only fix.

 I  have reinstalled now to the same point I was at , effects /missions/ ect....  and  it runs ( actually) better than ever before !  
 I dont understand what was the problem in the first place, but   phew !  so very happy to have it back running again.

tested it  this morning, and   it ran fine. Cheers !