Bill Bishop Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Hi I was wondering why I can't start an online game against other players? I select start an online game but after selecting my planes and elevation, I wait for another person to join and it just goes into a game against ai? As for campaigns against the AI I send my planes to locations hit execute and then when I select play a mission all I get is my name then a blue screen with no planes!?! If this went Gold I guess I'' have to pass as online play is why I was going to purchase the game... Cheers, Bill [ August 18, 2005, 11:54 AM: Message edited by: Bill Bishop ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rune Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Campaignsd are being worked on as some code changed on the latest server upgrade. As for the online game, you are hitting start before anyone else joins in. Wait for the others to join the game, once they are in, then hit start. Rune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Verssen Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 Bill, Brian made an update to the server code today. Please give it another try when you get the chance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shades Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 I still get the same error when trying to play a campaign game but not local. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Verssen Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 Shades, Try deleting your old campaign and creating a new one. Sometimes pre-update campaigns will continue to fail after an update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shades Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 I disabled my firewall and I can get the campaign to work. Any suggestions to allow the two computers to "talk" back and forth without disabling the firewall completely? [ August 19, 2005, 09:13 PM: Message edited by: Shades ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Verssen Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 Depending, on your firewall, you might be able to allow specific programs access to the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Bishop Posted August 20, 2005 Author Share Posted August 20, 2005 Dan, tried it yesterday and things look fine. Played a couple of single missions and a campaign. Though I do get booted off the server occasionly, if I don't do something in the lobby do you eventually get booted from the server for inactivity? I am still debating to place an order? Would you guys consider a download option to buy the game? It seems like it wouldn't be that large a download. Thanks, Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 Actually the full game is 600MB+ (due to the aircraft animation files and sound mainly; there are 40 aircraft in the game after all). Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demoss Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 >Depending, on your firewall, you might be able to allow specific programs access to the internet. In this day and age, a networked program needs to be a lot more robust. Firewalls are a fact of life, and anything that's "depending on your firewall" isn't good. I tried watching ports to see what I needed to open up to make this thing work properly, and the conclusions I came to were 1) It's probably too many to do. 2) Even if I could, it would open me up too much. This Will Not Do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rune Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 Lets see, you need port 8080 open. That's it. Depending on the firewall means if it is software or hardware. programs like zone alarm you need to tell it allow access, ditto with mcafee's firewall. hardware firewall is a single port. Sounds robust to me. Rune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demoss Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 I don't think so - I've already done that. I've observed traffic coming back on other ports (in the 40000 range, at least some of the time) trying to get to me when I try to host a game. The firewall doesn't know where that should be going, but I'm pretty sure it's trying to reach me from one of the DiF servers. If it actually worked reliably, it would be robust. I have port 8080 open (hardware firewall), and when I connect to a game, I have about 10-15 seconds until I get timed out if it doesn't start. I effectively can't host a game, because it takes people longer than that to find it, pick a pilot, and join. There appears to be something else going on during the pre-start phase of the game, but I'm not sure exactly what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rune Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 I run both a hardware and zone alarm pro, and have only opened port 8080 and can host games with no problem. I will try with McAfee's tonight when I get home and see how it does. I have kept games open for hours. Will do some testing tonight and see what I come up with. Rune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airborne Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 Hey Rune, how are you?? Have you had any luck with McAfee?? I cannot stay logged on for more than a minute or two without losing connection. I've tried the demo campaign and made it to turn 2 with great difficulty. I tried disabling my McAfee firewall software and I had the same results. I'm guessing disabling should allow anything through--no??? I'm really starting to like the demo now, but am still on the fence due to these issues. thanks. edit: Forgot my specs: Win XP 3.4Ghz, 1G RAM Linksys wireless router. [ September 15, 2005, 01:53 PM: Message edited by: Airborne ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalin's Organ Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 I usually only get 1 successful connection (ie I can actually play a game) out of maybe 5-6 attempts - the others the game usually gets as far as the dogfight screen, but then stops - the planeds all appear but there's no action, and I get fatigued for a mission When I do get a successful connection & can play it often eventually locks up as above sooner or later. I'm running Zone Alarm, the 2 DIF prog's are allowed trusted internet access. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Verssen Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 I wonder if the connection speed is related to how often the connection is lost. For example, I'm using DSL and hardly ever lose connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuroi neko Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 I had connection trouble a few time, and I noticed it was always while my PC was doing a lot of disk swap (I have a few other applications in te background, and often a handful of browser windows). I wonder if others noticed a lot of disk activity during these connection problems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalin's Organ Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 I use cable too - and I have great difficulty. Mind you I am in New Zealand which possibly means a few more points for the signal to travel through on the 'net? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rune Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 Airbourne, Sorry was testing with the NVidia firewall, and have got no problems. I just installed the McAffee on another system and willt est tonight. Rune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rune Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 Airbourne, Loaded the game and played with the McAffee firewall on, all I had to do is hit grant access twice, once for the lobby and once for the game when I started one. I did not have to do anything else. I am playing a 2 v 2 right now against the AI. The reason I reloaded and tried again was I had the beta, and this test was with the full release of the game. Rune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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