Game Locks up during Territory Select Screen Animations

[OpenRift412]

This also happens in the original C&C95 on modern windows, where the game screen will freeze while the animations for the territory select screens play. When the animations finish, it the game seems to start responding again. I don't know what the deal is with that.

[OmniBlade]

I've tried to figure out what is going on that causes this but I've been unsuccessful. I thought the change in rendering back end would fix it, but I guess its a feature of the game code somehow and I've yet to determine the cause. More annoying is that it is intermittent and will sometimes work as expected.