Game Freezes after trying to join server/channel/game/end game

This has happened since the patch before. The problem is that Crossfire starts to freeze at a certain time. I've noticed that I have a couple of seconds to join a game before my Crossfire stops to work. It doesnt give me errors and my Crossfire doesn't close. Its like the game just paused on me. Sometimes it freezes at "Connecting to server". Other times, it freezes at "Connecting to channel." If I manage to get into a game room, the "Join Game" button would sometimes not work, and if I do get ingame, I would be able to play normally but when I look at the score board, the players that joined after me would have no name. After the game, the "Loading game results" would take longer than usual to finish loading. Also, when it finishes loading the game results, it would only show my character and that would be it, no names are shown on the score board. So it didn't really load anything on the score board. When I press "OK" at the bottom right, I would go back to the game room and it would have everyone who has been playing in the game that just finished just like a normal Crossfire, but that is when the freeze starts. None of the buttons really work except for the "X" which I can only exit out of the game. Everytime I get this "freeze" I would have always force quit or use the "X" in Crossfire. Thnx for reading.(This hasn't happened before) plz help i give cookie