why dose a red x appear in the upper left hand conner in spades is that y i cant get in rooms?

Answer 1

java glitch! Red X error. find your answers here.
http://java.com/en/download/help/5000040200.xml
here is how i get around it;
Its a java glitch I just tried and got right in,and this will work with all games!
JAVA has a small font glitch.Plus many other problems. If java is launching your games The coffee cup logo while loading. Go to start button, settings, go to control panel open internet options. advance tab,scroll down and see if msn VM is listed,if so, unclick the 2 java listed. Make sure JIT is checked, click apply then ok. This lets msn vm launch games. this will SPEED UP game loading time. i play games about every night with no problems using these settings. If you don’t have msn VM, get it here http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/default.mspx

Answer 2

I had the same problem. Sometimes I could get in and sometimes it would show up a red X in the applet window where the game room is supposed to load, Then when I finally got in, there was a terrible lag, So, here is what I did:

I opened up my java console (in IE7, go to tools> sun java console) type an "x" to clear the classloader cache, click ok.
Now go to internet options and open the advanced tab (tools> internet options> advanced tab) scroll down to java and see if you have microsoft vm, if so, uncheck the java 2.(whatever), and check the JIT compiler box in the microsoft vm, click "apply", then "OK". Then restart internet explorer, login to Yahoo spades and when it asks if you wanna run yahoo spades, click "run"
You will get in immediately and THE LAG WILL BE GONE FOREVER!

P.S. If you don't have microsoft vm, go to www.microsoft.com, click "downloads" and update your IE and then you should get virtual machine (microsoft vm). Another solution is to get a different browser, Mozilla firefox is good.