Repeatedly going 'linkdead' despite no loss of internet connection

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Good Evening,

Thanks for reading this. I've been enjoying P99 immensely, however it's crashing so often at this point it's rendering it unplayable. Namely, I keep 'going linkdead' (when I press f11 the ticker goes down from 100% to 0) and if I let this play out it eventually displays the dreaded 'you have been disconnected' black screen with white text. I have no idea why, since this is not accompanied (from what I can tell) by a loss of my internet connection (I can browse the internet in a separate window successfully literally while I'm 'going linkdead').

I hope this isn't a question asked super often or something obvious I missed. I'll confess that as of right now I have a fresh Windows 7 install without all of the updates installed yet (they're gradually installing and configuring as I turn my computer off and on again). However, this was happening to a lesser extent prior to my new Windows installation.

I'm running Windows 7 on an HP Elitebook 2540p laptop. If there's anything else I should post please let me know.

Thanks and happy hunting