Posting this for a friend, he is having intermittent problems with his connection to the data center. When ever he loses connection the message he gets is connection to data center has failed. It sometimes clears up after 5-10 times of trying to get connection. He hasn't had problems like this since the last patch or two. Not sure which one how ever. He has the game installed on the main hard drive and doesn't have Risa installed. All other games like Doom 3 work fine when he is having this problem. So I don't believe it is a bad video card nor an over heating issue. I believe he has tried to re-patch the game and still didn't work. Not sure if he has fully uninstalled the game or not. My question is if that doesn't work what else could it be?