New game or tutorial won't start

[Jarrah]

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Defcon 1.3 steam built Jan  8 2007
Parsing archive main.dat...DONE
Parsing archive sounds.dat...DONE
Client listening on port 5011
Parsing Coastline data (1776 islands) : 47ms
Parsing International data (2753 islands) : 19ms
Parsing City data (2745 cities) : 10ms
Authentication key set : 'snip'
Connection established to MetaServer, listening on Port 5009
Steam Authentication Initiated
Steam Authentication : Starting Steam
Steam Authentication : Starting Steam API
Requesting data from MetaServer : LatestVersion
Requesting data from MetaServer : MOTD
Steam Authentication : Logging On To Steam
Steam Authentication : Getting Steam Id
Received data from MetaServer : LatestVersion
Received data from MetaServer : MOTD
Steam Authentication : SteamID = snip
Steam Authentication : Getting Encryption Details
Requesting authentication of key snip
Received Authentication : snip : (keyID snip) : Accepted
Authentication HashToken set to -224161946
Requesting data from MetaServer : UpdateURL
Received data from MetaServer : UpdateURL
Started requesting public IP:port for socket 8040
Requesting data from MetaServer : sb
Socket 8040 identified as public IP snip
Requesting data from MetaServer : sb
Received data from MetaServer : sb
Steam Authentication : Getting Steam2 Auth
Steam Authentication : Getting Steam3 Auth
Steam Authentication : Requesting Authentication
Steam Authentication Accepted : FULL GAME USER
Authentication key set : 'snip'
Requesting data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Received data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Stopped requesting public IP:port for socket 8040
CLIENT : Disconnected
EclRemoveWindow failed on window LOBBY
Server started on port 5010
CLIENT : Attempting connection to Server at 0.1.0.4:5010...
Requesting connection to 0.1.0.4:5010 via matchmaker
Started requesting public IP:port for socket 7320
MetaServer enabling UDP broadcast for LAN discovery...SUCCESS
MetaServer : WAN registration enabled
MetaServer : LAN registration enabled
Socket 7320 identified as public IP snip
CLIENT : Disconnected
SERVER : Shutting down...
SERVER : Shut down complete
Disconnected from MetaServer


All other NIC's are disabled.

[frenchfrog]

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CLIENT : Attempting connection to Server at 0.1.0.4:5010..

Strange IP ...


Are you able to join a game?

[Seeda]

EclRemoveWindow failed on window Placement
CLIENT : Received HelloClient from Server
CLIENT: I am a spectator
CLIENT : Sending disconnect...
CLIENT : Disconnected
CLIENT : Disconnected
Server started on port 5010
CLIENT : Attempting connection to Server at 0.1.0.4:5010...
Started requesting public IP:port for socket 984
MetaServer : WAN registration enabled
Requesting data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
MetaServer enabling UDP broadcast for LAN discovery...SUCCESS
MetaServer : LAN registration enabled
Received data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Socket 984 identified as public IP 71.112.53.252:61814
Requesting data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Received data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Requesting data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Received data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Requesting data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Received data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Sound System regained window focus
CLIENT : Disconnected
SERVER : Shutting down...
SERVER : Shut down complete
Server started on port 5010
CLIENT : Attempting connection to Server at 0.1.0.4:5010...
Started requesting public IP:port for socket 984
MetaServer enabling UDP broadcast for LAN discovery...SUCCESS
MetaServer : WAN registration enabled
MetaServer : LAN registration enabled
Socket 984 identified as public IP 71.112.53.252:61814
Requesting data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Received data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Sound System regained window focus
Requesting data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Received data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Sound System regained window focus
Requesting data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Received data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Requesting data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Received data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Requesting data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Received data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Requesting data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Received data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Requesting data from MetaServer : ServerTTL
Received data from MetaServer : ServerTTL


I Got the same strange IP yet I can connect to other games but i get a Connection Problems in red across my screen.

[s3ood]

anybody found a solution to this problem? portforwarding didnt work for me

[dracon32]

Same issue. Here's the difference.
Three people in the same office using the same imaged PC's, behind the same firewall rules etc. We cannot touch them so that's not an option.

Yesterday:
Person A (me) installs the game, works great! Tutorial runs and I play for a few, sweet. (no patch)
Person B installed the game, nothing works. Gets the tutorial loading screen, thats it. Can't start new game. (patch)
Person C installs the game, works great! Etc. etc. (no patch)

Copied my Defcon folder to a server, Person B can launch the game and it works from the server. Copied the game folder over locally and nothing happens.

Today:
Well I go to try and play the game this morning, same issue as person B. The game launches, however clicking "New Game" nothing happens. Clicking Tutorial, I have a list of missions and anyone I click on I get the "Loading Tutorial" or whatever and nothing happens. I installed the patch, still no change.

Person B launches the game today and it works! (re-installed, no patch)
Person C isn't in yet, so I dunno the status on that one.

Tried copying Person B's Defcon folder to the server today, nothing, game launches, however cannot use tutorial or new game.

We all are running P4's with 512megs of RAM, WinXP Pro, using some intel POS onboard video, on a single NIC. Why would it work yesterday and not today without any changes??

Here is the debug.txt (awefully large to post):
http://dracon32.net/defcon/debug.txt

[frenchfrog]

Copied my Defcon folder to a server, Person B can launch the game and it works from the server. Copied the game folder over locally and nothing happens.

Really Strange, are you sure of that result?


Could Person B computer as buggy drivers/hardware or spyware/virus?

[dracon32]

Copied my Defcon folder to a server, Person B can launch the game and it works from the server. Copied the game folder over locally and nothing happens.

Really Strange, are you sure of that result?


Could Person B computer as buggy drivers/hardware or spyware/virus?

Positive. Each of us have the same image on our PCs, so there isn't a difference in hardware, AV, etc.

[frenchfrog]

Ok, I guess you could compare the debug.log between Person B running on server vs locally.

[MasterGoat]

Alright,

I'm one of the "persons" in this issue. I confirm exactly what dracon32 is stating. Worked once, and is now not functioning.

[dracon32]

Person B who was now able to play it this morning can no longer play now. Same issue. Person B was running locally with a fresh install and not off the server. The sever was only used to test functionality between PC installations.

With the exception of Person B's log being much shorter, I'm not entirely sure what to look for.
http://dracon32.net/defcon/Person%20B%20debug.txt

[frenchfrog]

Hmmm, nothing strange in the last provided logs.

Is 167.209.21.196 the right IP for Person B computer? Perhaps add Defcon to windows firewall exception list (if not already done)?

[ZBB]

The IP address is correct. Again, I managed to open up the chat window I mentioned by clicking on "New game." Is this what is supposed to happen?

I think I have the same problem. I hadn't played Defcon in quite a while (at least since the 1.2 patch), but when I tried to this week this bug occured.

The thing is, the chat window opens and it appears that the options pane opens too, but is somehow invisable. What I mean is, moving the mouse over the blank space above the chat window, it will occasionally change to the resize cursor as if mousing over the edges of a window.

I tried port forwarding my router just to be sure (the router is new since last time I played, but in the same series as the previous), but it didn't seem to help. I can still see a server list with or without port forwarding, and it seems I can join a game (although I only did a very short test of that). So it would seem to point towards some kind of graphics issue. I'm not 100% sure my drivers are up to date, so that will be the next check.