P99 started crashing every time I try to login

[saintwarhead]

I've been a P99 player off and on for a few years. A couple weeks ago P99 started crashing at the character select screen almost every time I click Enter World. The game will just freeze and then eventually boot back to the initial login screen. Every now and then I'll get lucky and it will randomly let me login but 99% of the time it freezes. I tried deleting and reinstalling P99. I tried playing P99 on my older laptop that I used to play on all the time - the exact same problem. I've tried logging in with and without WinEQ and the same thing happens. My best guess is something got messed up in my ini files somehow but I'm not savvy enough to know what to look for. Someone please haaalp.