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So when I first start the game it seems to load just fine and goes to the log in screen and from there, after I log in it simply turns to a black screen then goes to a gradient white to black screen starting white at the top and going into black and I even let that screen sit overnight and it still does this. I recently updated my computer to Windows XP SP3 and updated java to the latest. I've also updated my graphics card to the latest and this seems to be where I'm having problems, ever since then... What can I do to fix it?

I've tried force updating and it shows it updating but once its complete it does exactly what it did before. Its even more annoying though because I know that before updating to SP3 it ran well with no lag so long as long as I set all graphics setting as low as they went but I guess simply updating to SP3 ruined it... What really sucks is I'm not even sure if that's it because between the time of working and not working I updated Java to the most recent to and download xna and .net so I can't be sure if it actually even is any one of or multiple things causing it...