However, nine times out of ten "Play Game" or "Tutorial" will result in a Red Screen of Death on my machine, and only repeated use of ESC and trying again will do the trick.
Here's what fretsonfire.log has to say about it:
(E) Socket error while sending: (10054, 'Connection reset by peer')
(E) Socket error while sending: (10054, 'Connection reset by peer')
(E) Socket error while sending: (10054, 'Connection reset by peer')
(E) Socket error while sending: (10054, 'Connection reset by peer')
(E) Socket error while sending: (10054, 'Connection reset by peer')
... and so on.
I'm using Win98SE (I don't want to bog my relatively slow 800 mHz computer down even more with a newer Windows), an original SoundBlaster card (SB Live) and an nVidia graphics card, all with the latest drivers and DirectX 9.0c.
It's not really a huge problem considering the game is free, but it's a bit annoying having to hit "Start Game" over and over until it works. Any ideas what's causing this? Oh, and I'm using version 1.0.192 of the game, the latest I could find.