Black screen while loading

Hi all,

I have a major problem with CF. I used to play it before without any problems, but now I get this black screen while loading every game. First up, the game quickly loads to about 15% and then the screen goes black. All I can see is the mouse cursor and a halloween ad on the left side, the one that you see on the G4Box after you click on the shortcut of Crossfire. But I can see it for about half a second, then it disappears and leaves me with black screen and cursor again. And I see the black screen for about 60-120 seconds and then the normal loading screen comes back again with about 50% loaded. After that it's all normal. What is the problem? Can it be that the new patch is causing this problem? I'm not the only one suffering from it, but as far as I know - no one has found a solution yet. Please help! Because it takes so long to join a game, that most of the it's over before I even start playing.

P.S. I have enough RAM (2gb).