[Richzilla]

The dial up deal is a bug. Some people with win 98/ME have changed their dial up settings to "never dial a connection" and that "fixed" the problem for them but I have found that that "trick" doesnt work on my Win XP pro system. I have sent emails to EA with no sucess and posted on many forums about this so I know that they are aware of this problem let's hope they patch it.

For now what I do to get by is as soon as I select the skill level I hit the space bar when the dail up starts and it will kill the connection. It may dial if your not fast enough but it will hang up as soon as it's done and the game will start. Not sure why this works but it does.

Not a fix but it is better than what EA is doing for us which to this point is nothing.