I go into galactic war, and I can move around fine, but when I try to start a fight it goes "login accpeted" "calulating approach vector" and then freezes up and I can't do anything.
Can you play regular [MP] games? Can you load planets fully in the system editor? When did this problem arise? Also, how long do you usually wait for it to load, or rather, what is the longest you have waited for it to load.
I can't find run. My OS is the new windos thing where the start menu is all wonky. Checking. I usually wait about five minutes, but the first two times windows sent up a "program is not responding, end process y/n?" box after I started clicking alot, without any attempts to actually do anything. Edit1: AI Skirmish it freezes and gives me a "not responding, kill/wait?" right away. Edit2: It freezes when I try to preview stuff in the system editor as well.
Ctrl+r for the run command? Also, that's windows' default stupidity. PA planet generation used to cause that box to appear even though the game was still responding, just not to my input. It's sort of like being put on a timer that doesn't really count for much. In my experience, if it takes forever to load something like your issue, then there's a problem--very situational.