I Have crashed Yet again. I won't post the crash data since you say its auto posted. Any Idea whats causing them? ohh and it seems that I am getting a random 15 second freeze every hour or so in the game now. I have verified the games data already. It only happens in empires. I would rather not have to download all this crap again.
That's an old bug. I had it for a few months, and so did Predator. No known fix. Although, I actually got it in CS:S too.
It's could be the steam security issue. They are having issues with hackers so they are upping security checks both client and server side.