Game crashing

[Dragon Fire]

Greetings..

Not sure where to post this thread but I'm having an issue with running the mod.
Game starts fine but then crashes to desktop.

was working fine, played for hours then when i wanted to start up again the issue started happening..\

here is a copy of the dump file:

Unhandled Exception!
-- Important Information --
Source: directplay8.dll
RelExpAddr: 0x050851
ExpCode: 0x80000003
ExpFlags: 0
ExpAddress: 0x4f60851

anyone have any idea what the issue could be?

Thanks in advance

PS. My direct play is activated in my windows features