Connection problems and authentication

[Gotnoname]

Hi,

I bought MW through Steam. The singel player part works great, but whenever I try to play online I get this "Requesting server list" all the time.

In the main menu it says "Authentication status unknown", so I guess there's something wrong. I have opened port 4000 and 4001 in the firewall, and Windows Firewall is turned off.

Does anyone know how I can fix this? I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem.

Thanks.

[bert_the_turtle]

The errors are caused by MW being unable to reach the metaserver. Could you do this:

Click start->Run..
enter "cmd"
enter "ping metaserver-mw.introversion.co.uk"
paste the output here?

This is how it looks for me:

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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

E:\Documents and Settings\Manuel>ping metaserver-mw.introversion.co.uk

Pinging metaserver-mw.introversion.co.uk [66.197.213.133] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 66.197.213.133: bytes=32 time=143ms TTL=52
Reply from 66.197.213.133: bytes=32 time=144ms TTL=52
Reply from 66.197.213.133: bytes=32 time=151ms TTL=52

Ping statistics for 66.197.213.133:
    Packets: Sent = 3, Received = 3, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 143ms, Maximum = 151ms, Average = 146ms
Control-C
^C

[Gotnoname]

Looks like I can ping the metaserver ok.

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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Stian>ping metaserver-mw.introversion.co.uk

Pinging metaserver-mw.introversion.co.uk [66.197.213.133] with 32 bytes of data:


Reply from 66.197.213.133: bytes=32 time=126ms TTL=51
Reply from 66.197.213.133: bytes=32 time=125ms TTL=51
Reply from 66.197.213.133: bytes=32 time=126ms TTL=51
Reply from 66.197.213.133: bytes=32 time=126ms TTL=51

Ping statistics for 66.197.213.133:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 125ms, Maximum = 126ms, Average = 125ms


[Gotnoname]

I took a look in the debug.txt file and this came up (I changed the auth. key for this post):

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Setting up page: JoinGame (4)
Started requesting public IP:port for socket 3468 (08C31768)
NetSocketSession::WriteData invalid socket
RequestIdentityThread for listener 08C31768 started
NetSocketSession::WriteData invalid socket
NetSocketSession::WriteData invalid socket
Requesting authentication of key XXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXX
NetSocketSession::WriteData invalid socket
Requesting authentication of key XXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXX
Capture frame buffer 0ms
Capture frame buffer 0ms
Stopped requesting public IP:port for socket 3468 (08C31768)
Setting up page: NewOrJoin (3)
Capture frame buffer 0ms
Capture frame buffer 0ms
Setting up page: Main (0)
NetSocketSession::WriteData invalid socket
Requesting data from MetaServer : LatestVersion
NetSocketSession::WriteData invalid socket
Requesting data from MetaServer : MOTD
CLIENT : Disconnected
Disconnected from MetaServer
Waiting for work queue to finish work.
Done.
Waiting for work queue to finish work.
Done.

[bert_the_turtle]

These beasts are your problem, it seems:

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NetSocketSession::WriteData invalid socket


Only someone who knows about the internal networking stuff can help you further, I'm afraid.

[Gotnoname]

Guess I'll have to wait for a replay from one of the devs then. Or maybe there will be some sort of update in the near future.

[frenchfrog]

Seems there is still something blocking Multiwinia,

What are yours Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware/Firewall/Content Filtering softwares?


Forwarding ports shouldn't matters, it's useful to get people to connect to your game, not for you to connect to the metaserver or joining game.

[Chris]

You might try going into options/other options and changing the ports used from 4000/4001 to something else, eg 5000/5001. I'm guessing you have another network program already using one of our ports and Multiwinia isn't handling it properly.

[Gotnoname]

Hmmm. Somehow my authentication status is accepted today. I don't think I did anything, but somehow MW can communicate with the metaserver now.

I've had this problem for over two days, and now it fixed itself.

Anyways, I want to thank everyone that has tried to help me!