Need Help.. Gettin' annoyed and frustrated

motox2202005 · Post by **motox2202005** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:21 pm

Ok... This problem started on Saturday Night... The game worked fine in games and stuff... but now im angry about this... The thing is that i can get in games, its just i cant see no one... its really starting to *beep* me off... I have reinstalled the game countless times... and did the patch and the fixmore4 thing.... does anyone have any ideas??

ShadowPrincess · Post by **ShadowPrincess** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:38 pm

So you could get in games before and see others? and then all of a sudden Saturday it went like this? Does it make a difference if You host and not someone else?
Sounds like a connection issue to me with the little you have said not something with the game.

motox2202005 · Post by **motox2202005** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:41 pm

i hosted a game, same deal.. but idk if my connection is up to host..

ShadowPrincess · Post by **ShadowPrincess** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:54 pm

I have had this happen to me before. What I found was;
In MTM it seems to happen if you have a number of people in a connection.
Once multiplayer is reached all gamers need to sit and not touch anything, until all the required number of gamers that the host launched with are in multiplayer.
Once ALL are in multiplayer, then everyone can reclick, change settings etc.
If the above does not happen, and gamers are not patient, AVs (access violations) seem to be more prominent for some.
Patience is the key with this old game at times.
If I have not seen some players, i have told them in multiplayer that i could not see some, would leave and come back in IP, usually then I see all.
However everyone needs of course to reclick for all the connections to mesh together in the game.

If anyone else has some more or different experiences with this problem, I am sure they will post here for you.

Post by **Phineus** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:54 am

sounds like dynamic ip

AuzGrams · Post by **AuzGrams** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:11 pm

ShadowPrincess wrote:I have had this happen to me before. What I found was;
In MTM it seems to happen if you have a number of people in a connection.
Once multiplayer is reached all gamers need to sit and not touch anything, until all the required number of gamers that the host launched with are in multiplayer.
Once ALL are in multiplayer, then everyone can reclick, change settings etc.
If the above does not happen, and gamers are not patient, AVs (access violations) seem to be more prominent for some.
Patience is the key with this old game at times.
If I have not seen some players, i have told them in multiplayer that i could not see some, would leave and come back in IP, usually then I see all.
However everyone needs of course to reclick for all the connections to mesh together in the game.

If anyone else has some more or different experiences with this problem, I am sure they will post here for you.

Yeah at times when I connect, I have to wait for game to pop-up after a minute or I'll get some kind of access vio.

JerOutlaw · Post by **JerOutlaw** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:53 pm

Phineus wrote:sounds like dynamic ip

its not I double checked over it with him

Post by **Phineus** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:04 pm

If the game worked one day but not the next, then it is very probably a port-related issue. If the ip has not changed, or at least the change has been accounted for, then the next place to look is firewalls. Assuming that's not the case, then the next place to look is background processes - you know, a program that was not running before but is now. For example, Yahoo messenger was notorious for allowing you to join but not host. The trick now is to figure out which program is the cause of the problem. Use CTRL+ALT+DEL and go through the list and terminate anything that does not need to be running. You can also use adaware, spybot etc to help weed out the trouble makers.

JerOutlaw · Post by **JerOutlaw** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:30 pm

DMZ is enabled, routers firewall was off. I think it might be possible its the joke of a virus protection program Telus offers (that Brad has) causing the issue. but I have never had it and dunno how to disable or turn it off to be 100% its the issue