I have a similar problem. I recently installed updated drivers for my radeon 9600 series graphics and also updated my .dot network to 2.0. Then I defragmented my drives. I set my resolution to 1280x800x32 for windowsXPpro and loaded continuum, then set it's resolution to the same (1280x800x32). I get green ping reports from all my servers (30 for Powerball) and when I click the play button the continuum window moves to the flying stars pattern of loading a zone but there it stops with no action unless I open task manager and select it; that is when it give me an error unable to connect to zone. I have my continuum set up for full screen and tried to change both windows and continuum graphics settings differently, also tried different resolutions for windowed setting. And YES I tried to uninstall continuum and reinstall it. What should I do? Temp
