Today i was having trouble with the SRO crash. i was so frustrated and then i started to mess around with windows a bit. then i did something and now im in the game fine i can log out when ever i feel like it. THERE IS HOPE NOW!!!!
1) Goto control panel and open the regional and language settings.
2) Then goto the languages tab.
3) Click install files for east asian languages
4) Click on the advanced tab.
4) On the drop down box choose korean as the language.
5) After the restart go back to the lagnuage settings and the language tab.
6) click on details now.
7) Where it says Default input language choose korean. *note*(This might get annoying for some people but dont worry you can change it back and forth because it will then set your typing language to korean it wouldnt affect you in SRO though.)

Now go to your SRO directory and find the following:replacer, SiklErrSender, silkroad, and sro_client.
9) For all of those do the following steps:
Right click on each one and goto properties.
Click on the check box"Run this program in compatibility mode for:" select windows 98/ME
then click on disable visual themes
Repeat the steps for the rest of the files
I hope this works for everyone cause it WORKS for me...