Renegade Public Forums
C&C: Renegade --> Dying since 2003™, resurrected in 2024!
Home » Technical Support » Renegade Client » Yay! I can't connect!
- Yay! I can't connect! [message #298175] Wed, 21 November 2007 21:15 Go to next message
Da Spadger is currently offline  Da Spadger
Messages: 8
Registered: November 2007
Karma: 0
Recruit
Uh, yeah. I seem to have a wonderful ability to not connect to WOL/XWIS.

I have reinstalled the game, applied the 1037 patch, installed RenGuard, installed core patches in that order, along with that scripts thing mentioned in the FAQ. There's no firewall to mess things up and I'm running XP SP2. I don't see what else I should mention.

Please help. :/

Report message to a moderator

- Re: Yay! I can't connect! [message #298188 is a reply to message #298175] Thu, 22 November 2007 00:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Goztow is currently offline  Goztow
Messages: 9749
Registered: March 2005
Location: Belgium
Karma: 14
General (5 Stars)
Goztoe
What does the MOTD say when you connect?

Also check the file "hosts" in directory C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC . Open it with notepad.

If there's an extra line in there, under or above "127.0.0.1 localhost", then post your hosts-file in this subforum so we can help you out.

In worst case you'll need to reinstall WOL or even the complete game.

You can find me in The KOSs2 (TK2) discord while I'm playing. Feel free to come and say hi! TK2 discord

Report message to a moderator

- Re: Yay! I can't connect! [message #298229 is a reply to message #298175] Thu, 22 November 2007 08:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Da Spadger is currently offline  Da Spadger
Messages: 8
Registered: November 2007
Karma: 0
Recruit
I don't get a message, just "Unable to connect to Westwood Online".

In hosts, there's nothing besides "127.0.0.1 localhost", but in a file called hosts.bak there's one billion zillion extra lines, should I post that one instead?

I could try reinstalling WOL I guess. Edit: That didn't work.

[Updated on: Thu, 22 November 2007 08:27]

Report message to a moderator

- Re: Yay! I can't connect! [message #298232 is a reply to message #298175] Thu, 22 November 2007 08:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Goztow is currently offline  Goztow
Messages: 9749
Registered: March 2005
Location: Belgium
Karma: 14
General (5 Stars)
Goztoe
No, that .bak should be useless. Did you check if windows firewall didn't turn itself on? It tends to do that for no apparant reason =/.

You can find me in The KOSs2 (TK2) discord while I'm playing. Feel free to come and say hi! TK2 discord

Report message to a moderator

- Re: Yay! I can't connect! [message #298236 is a reply to message #298232] Thu, 22 November 2007 09:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
CarrierII is currently offline  CarrierII
Messages: 3804
Registered: February 2006
Location: England
Karma: 0
General (3 Stars)
Goztow wrote on Thu, 22 November 2007 15:49

No, that .bak should be useless. Did you check if windows firewall didn't turn itself on? It tends to do that for no apparant reason =/.


My brother found a virus that could turn windows firewall off via the command line, it stands to reason that MS probably have it written in their updates to turn it on via the command line, or that applications that offer to "add themselves to the windows firewall exception list" (modern games, in other words) turn it on when they do that. Anyway, that's probably HOW it's turned on...

Renguard is a wonderful initiative
Toggle Spoiler

Report message to a moderator

- Re: Yay! I can't connect! [message #298263 is a reply to message #298175] Thu, 22 November 2007 10:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Da Spadger is currently offline  Da Spadger
Messages: 8
Registered: November 2007
Karma: 0
Recruit
The windows firewall is deactivated.

Report message to a moderator

- Re: Yay! I can't connect! [message #298266 is a reply to message #298175] Thu, 22 November 2007 11:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
CarrierII is currently offline  CarrierII
Messages: 3804
Registered: February 2006
Location: England
Karma: 0
General (3 Stars)
Go to Start > Run

Type "cmd" and press "OK"

then type
Code: [Select all] [Show/ hide]
ping c.xwis.net


And say if it gives you four counts of "Reply from 212.162.52.4: *stuff*" or four counts of "Request timed out"

If it's the latter, something isn't letting you get to XWIS for Renegade.

Renguard is a wonderful initiative
Toggle Spoiler

Report message to a moderator

- Re: Yay! I can't connect! [message #298275 is a reply to message #298175] Thu, 22 November 2007 11:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Da Spadger is currently offline  Da Spadger
Messages: 8
Registered: November 2007
Karma: 0
Recruit
What the crap, cmd says ping isn't a valid command. O__o

EDIT: Here we go. I can ping c.xwis.net just fine.

[Updated on: Thu, 22 November 2007 12:19]

Report message to a moderator

- Re: Yay! I can't connect! [message #298276 is a reply to message #298175] Thu, 22 November 2007 12:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
CarrierII is currently offline  CarrierII
Messages: 3804
Registered: February 2006
Location: England
Karma: 0
General (3 Stars)
How about re-installing the game as per this?

Renguard is a wonderful initiative
Toggle Spoiler

[Updated on: Thu, 22 November 2007 12:28]

Report message to a moderator

- Re: Yay! I can't connect! [message #298285 is a reply to message #298175] Thu, 22 November 2007 12:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Da Spadger is currently offline  Da Spadger
Messages: 8
Registered: November 2007
Karma: 0
Recruit
That's exactly how I did it, but I backed up the saved games and the configs instead.

Report message to a moderator

- Re: Yay! I can't connect! [message #298335 is a reply to message #298175] Thu, 22 November 2007 14:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
CarrierII is currently offline  CarrierII
Messages: 3804
Registered: February 2006
Location: England
Karma: 0
General (3 Stars)
No problem... this is strange. Really... strange. Try asking XWIS people for help.

Renguard is a wonderful initiative
Toggle Spoiler

Report message to a moderator

- Re: Yay! I can't connect! [message #298352 is a reply to message #298175] Thu, 22 November 2007 15:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Da Spadger is currently offline  Da Spadger
Messages: 8
Registered: November 2007
Karma: 0
Recruit
Done. I hope they can help. :/

Report message to a moderator

- Re: Yay! I can't connect! [message #298431 is a reply to message #298175] Fri, 23 November 2007 00:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Goztow is currently offline  Goztow
Messages: 9749
Registered: March 2005
Location: Belgium
Karma: 14
General (5 Stars)
Goztoe
I hope they can :-S. It still sounds like a firewall'ish problem to me, as you can ping the adress but the game can't seem to reach it :-S.

You can find me in The KOSs2 (TK2) discord while I'm playing. Feel free to come and say hi! TK2 discord

Report message to a moderator

- Re: Yay! I can't connect! [message #298460 is a reply to message #298175] Fri, 23 November 2007 07:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Da Spadger is currently offline  Da Spadger
Messages: 8
Registered: November 2007
Karma: 0
Recruit
Just wondering, should the port number be set to anything specific? I noticed that the default value was 0, and tried 1000. It still didn't work though. :/

Report message to a moderator

- Re: Yay! I can't connect! [message #298462 is a reply to message #298460] Fri, 23 November 2007 07:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Goztow is currently offline  Goztow
Messages: 9749
Registered: March 2005
Location: Belgium
Karma: 14
General (5 Stars)
Goztoe
Da Spadger wrote on Fri, 23 November 2007 15:06

Just wondering, should the port number be set to anything specific? I noticed that the default value was 0, and tried 1000. It still didn't work though. :/

Huh? U can only set the port for the FDS. But we're talking about a client here, right?

You can find me in The KOSs2 (TK2) discord while I'm playing. Feel free to come and say hi! TK2 discord

Report message to a moderator

- Re: Yay! I can't connect! [message #298464 is a reply to message #298175] Fri, 23 November 2007 07:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Da Spadger is currently offline  Da Spadger
Messages: 8
Registered: November 2007
Karma: 0
Recruit
Yeah.

Report message to a moderator

- Re: Yay! I can't connect! [message #298528 is a reply to message #298175] Fri, 23 November 2007 14:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
CarrierII is currently offline  CarrierII
Messages: 3804
Registered: February 2006
Location: England
Karma: 0
General (3 Stars)
Pardon Goztow? Watch... (Attachment)

Nah, it shouldn't be at anything. 0 means the client and the server will choose a port between them. However, you may want to consider specifying a port (say 1234) and then forwarding all traffic to your PC from your router on that port (if you have a router)

Renguard is a wonderful initiative
Toggle Spoiler

Report message to a moderator

- Re: Yay! I can't connect! [message #298543 is a reply to message #298175] Fri, 23 November 2007 16:35 Go to previous message
cmatt42 is currently offline  cmatt42
Messages: 2057
Registered: July 2004
Karma: 0
General (2 Stars)
You know, it's strange. Some people have found the XWIS tool thingy to fix this problem, even though it isn't needed. Try it:
http://strike-team.net/nuke/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&f ile=index&req=viewdownload&cid=1

GunKataGaming.net

Report message to a moderator

Previous Topic: Major FPS Lag
Next Topic: I just got windows vista.
Goto Forum:
  

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [ RSS ] [ PDF ]

Current Time: Wed Mar 05 06:12:55 MST 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.01298 seconds
.:: Contact :: Home ::.

Powered by: FUDforum 420.69.
Copyright ©2001-2023 FUDforum Bulletin Board Software