When I click ¨Play Now¨ the computer starts downloading the resources, but then the Blue Box says; ¨Connecting...¨ and I always wait more than 40 minutes and the game never loads.
WHY?!
I WANT TO PLAY!
Which games would this be, and what OS are you guys on?
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I use Windows XP. The only good OS on the planet! lol
(Don't flame me for using it either, I detest all other Operating Systems.) | |
I use XP Pro x64 as my Windows OS, so .. P:
I have got a similar issue, and have had it for a fair few versions now. My general feeling was it's an XP x64 thing, but it seems it's common to XP. Before I nail down a cause and test-case, it would probably be nice to get some input from Tom or Lummox on whether XP is still supported. | |
Well, if it's not... Then my time with BYOND will come to an end. I will not upgrade my OS...
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Are you all using windows XP 64 bit?
Running Windows XP home edition 32 bit, I don't seem to have encountered this problem before that I recall. At Queen of Pancakes: Try checking your firewall settings if GenesisMagician's suggestion doesn't help. Check To make sure that BYOND.exe, Dreamseeker.exe, and Dreamdaemon.exe are not being blocked, restricted, etc. Good luck! | |
I have Windows XP Pro SP3.
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Stephen001 wrote:
I use XP Pro x64 as my Windows OS, so .. P: XP should be fully supported (and Lummox JR in fact develops on XP). This sounds pretty critical, so please try to get us a test case (in particular we'd like to know in which version this started happening and whether it happens for all cases). | |
For me, this has happened since the 4.x client was released. I will grant that it does not happen all the time. I really don't know if it's even the clients fault, it could just be a coincidence in general based on the game(s) we try to play.
I have no evidence to back that claim though. | |
Once my XP x64 install is in a sane and fairly vanilla state, I'll grab you some traces of it. I'd understand though if XP x64 specifically is not supported.
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Is there any way I can assist in this?
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I'm not sure how useful it'd be to them, but you could run ProcMon and capture a bunch of output when accessing a game that fails to start for you.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ bb896645.aspx Here's a quick how-to on it: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dswl/archive/2010/01/10/ how-to-capture-a-process-monitor-trace.aspx | |
I've never used this before, so... What am I looking for? lol
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You're basically looking to make a big dump file, which you can upload somewhere and share as a link here.
This video may help guide you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy4kB6v97_M | |
In your case, I think you want to filter for dreamseeker.exe
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That was my next question and I ran it. Do you want the pml file?
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Yeah, if you share a link to that, then they can load that up hopefully and see the trace.
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Personally, I have no idea what causes that...