eniced73

At work right now so I do not have my IP. I usually check the multiplayer server at 1100pm EST every night though. It has been working fine the past couple days except for last night. Anyhow, everytime I check it out during the day (400pm or so) all I see on are Russians or Czechs. I cannot read the language. Does your schedule allow you to get on at this time of the night?

Ok. This post is mostly for my benefit but I believe it may help others too (setting up tournaments, etc.). If everyone active could post their time zone information it will give me an idea on whether or not it will be worth it (multiplayer wise) for me to buy the game. TOW 1 is dead in the USA and it is hard to for me to play during the times our European mates are online. Thanks. Eniced73----Eastern Standard Time----GMT(-5)

What time zone are u? I am GMT-5. USA eastern standard time. I was looking for people close to my zone but it has been a couple of days and nada person to be seen. This game is dead in the "States". Let me know.

Is there anyone out there still playing this game near my time zone????? I want to play some multiplayer games but find it difficult to get on when our buddies in the East are on. I work til 4:00PM EST (GMT-5) so by the time I get home and play with my kids, eat dinner and get the kids in bed everyone online is in bed. Anyone near my timezone interested in hooking up shoot me an email. I usually am online from 10-1100pm til 100-200am during the week and weekend. edinyar@hotmail.com

Sorry guys. Been away in Disney, Florida, USA. It looks like I was put in Pool 3 with : Crazyman, Alan123, and ColdFire. Eventhough Gnashers name is still at the top of the pool I am assuming I am in this Pool. Anyway I am in Eastern Standard Time. The best times for me to play are 1000PM (2200) my time or later. If an earlier time is needed I may be able to make it just shoot me an email on your time zones and best play times. Thanks. edinyar@hotmail.com or eniced73@atlanticbb.net

Sneaksie, Any update on what is going on? Is a fix in the works?

Arzok, Has Jedi contacted you? I have yet to hear anything, so I am not sure if he still wants to participate. If that is the case, what happens? If worse comes to worse and I am the only player in the division, you can drop me. I was looking forward to the tourny but do what you have to do. If you need to fit me into another division ( I know the time differences will make it tough to play all games ), I should be able to accommodate the other players. Let me know. Thanks.

Jedi Pilot. Contact me and let me know the best times that you are available to play our match. Thanks. edinyar@hotmail.com

WOW!!! Talk about a lucky guy. Your married to a women that apparently likes gaming and will create scenario's for you. Man am I jealous!!!

I am still getting the same problem that I posted above. Anyone have suggestions since it is supposedly working for everyone but me? Thanks.

Sounds good. I will put the file in the folder instead of overwriting. Any of you guys know of a terrain grid mod by chance?

Thanks guys. I now have it working. Nice mod.

OK. I dl'd the mappack and unzipped the file to these 3 folders: 1. Cartes 2D - Are these just screenshots of the minimaps? Or should they actually be put in a folder? 2. Maps - I put 2 of the 3 files: Cherbourg and Sandomierz into the Theatre of War / Maps folder. The 3rd file "Bzura" wants to overwrite the "bzura" folder that is already in this folder. Should I rename one of the files or just let it overwrite the file that is already there? 3. Missions - I put the 3 files: TCC_1vs1_France40_Hannut, TCC_1vs1_Pol44_Stazow, and TCC_1vs1_Poland39_Szack into the: Theatre of War / Missions / MP_LIST folder. Does this look like I installed the map pack correctly? If so, my only question is about #2 (the bzura map) above. I believe there are only two players in my division so this last map is a moot point. But I just want to be sure in case you guys add more to the USA division. Thanks.

Will not work. I did exactly as you said - Multiplayer / internet and it goes to a "waiting message" and then the message "Search Servers System is Unavailable". My internet connection is fine I tested.

I thought it was the runservices.exe program. I might be wrong. I was playing the first mission in the Poland campaign and at the experience allocation screen the famous "runtime error #3" popped up and forced me to close my game. I was able to go back in and allocate the troop experience and save. The game then allowed me to continue on to the next mission. I am not sure why this message all of a sudden popped up????

"If two players have the same number of points, we will see . We can make another match to determine the best, or both will play in the winner pool, that will depend of the number of players left !" This is just a suggestion. You guys might have something in place already. Couldn't we just determine the winner by the final statistics screen shot? I know when I played in some Close Combat tourney's they went by a "LS" system = loser's score. I am not sure if TOW gives one at the end of a match. Basically I am saying the player who caused the most casualties in the game that he "lost" wins the tiebreaker. Have a system for "X" amount of points for infantry kills and "Y" amount of points for AFV kills.

Sign me up in the American pool. email: edinyar@hotmail.com

Is this mod from Birdstrike compatible with the latest patch? I cannot seem to get it to work.

Do I just dl and install the file(version1.3.2) in the repository? Or do I need prior versions? If so, where are they - shouldnt they be in the repository? I have the most recent versions of the game with the mission pack installed. Thanks.

Case closed. Needed the runservices.exe program.

OK. I installed a sound blaster audigy card and the most recent drivers. I disabled on board audio and no good!!! The card works fine with everything so the card is not dead. The game still gives me the runtime(trap) error unless I disable the plug and play in services. I can then play the game but still with no sound. Any ideas??

I am still working on the ticket on this one. I have diagnosed the problem down to the "plug and play" service. I did a selective service startup and loaded service by service until I found the culprit. The only problem is the game works when I shut plug and play down but I have no sound. I am not very computer savy so I need to know how I can shut this service down and still get the sound to work if possible. I am not using a sound card. I am using the onboard sound from my nvidia 680SLI motherboard. I believe it is a REALTEK driver?

Thanks for the reply. I do see that reply on my ticket. I updated the ticket so I will refer to that from here on out.

Sneaksie do you have any information on my problem? I sent a ticket to BF and they said they sent the problem to 1C.

Plankton, Did you solve the runtime#3 error? I have 8600GTS's X 2 in SLI mode with a Nvidia motherboard and I am having the same problem. I used to be able to run the game with the same cards but on a ASUS motherboard. Not sure what nvidia drivers I was using at the time though. Funny thing is that I can open all of the programs that come with the game - map editor, scenario maker, etc.. and I can also download and play the TOW2 demo. Not sure what is going on. Let me know if you solved your issue.