I installed the only client available on the official site in the Downloads section.

I'm not talking about the crashes you get after playing for about ten or fifteen minutes. I know those can't be fixed. What I'm saying, is that I can't even get into any of the damn servers. The second the game starts, it crashes. I never get past the "Connecting to... (IP)" screen.

In total, I tried about twelve times.

At first I thought it was the fact that I didn't have Read Only unchecked. But whenever I try to uncheck it, my PC just rechecks it after I hit "Apply."

Let me start by saying that I am a huge fan of VC:MP. I used to play it day in and day out.

Anyway, moving away from the sucking up-ness, I recently re-installed my copy of Vice City in the hopes that I would be able to play Vice City Multiplayer again. I installed the 0.3z client, and attempted to join the official littlewhitey's server. Unfortunately, my game crashed right when the "Connecting to... (IP address of the server)" message came up, and I was shown the taxi depo screen. As usual with Vice City multiplayer crashes, the first sound I heard was a beep from Windows.

This is the error report I recieved:

QuoteException At Address: 0x016A2147

Registers:
EAX: 0x017378F8   EBX: 0x5475795B   ECX: 0x00000000   EDX: 0x01737968
ESI: 0x0012FBA0   EDI: 0x01731448   EBP: 0x0012FCE8   ESP: 0x0012FB64
EFLAGS: 0x00210287

Stack:
0x0169FDF7
0x006EB31A
0x00000008
0x00000008
0x00000008
0x0012FBA0
0x0012FB00
0x0012FCDC
0x016FAAD8
0x00000000
0x016AC412
0x0012FBA0
0x00000009
0x5475795B
0x00001448
0x016AC309
0x038F2A50
0x0173AAD0
0x0173ABC6
0x54495845
0x49484556
0x00454C43
0x00000000
0x00000000
0x00000000

Can anyone help? I'd really like to play VC:MP again.