Strange Lobby screens and eternal loading times.

[kitterz5]

I may not be able to give you much info, but here's the scoop.

I bought a boxed Defcom v1.3 CD today, read the manual and booted it up. The author. code came up "UNKNOWN" and I am clueless to the workings of my Windows Firewall and router. I tried to run the tutorial, and a box came up that said "Preparing Tutorial". So I waited. Almost an hour later it was still loading. The same thing happened when I tried the Rolling Demo. When I hit "New Game", I got a window that looked like you were supposed to type in, but nothing else. Typing in it did nothing. Then I downloaded the patch, nothing changed. I will try to provide any info I can to help solve this!

[kitterz5]

I have a Pentium 4 processor, run Windows XP Home, have no firewalls except the Windows one. 3.60GHz, I think. I cannot join anyone else's game.

[Feud]

The first question when such issues arise:

Are your drivers updated?

[torig]

The first question when such issues arise:

Are your drivers updated?

Actually, that would be: have you tried disabling the windows firewall. What does that give?

[frenchfrog]

A) Adding Defcon to Windows Firewall:

'start' menu -> 'Control Panel' -> 'Windows Firewall' -> 'Exceptions' tab -> 'Add Program...' button -> On the 'Add a program' window, 'Browse' button and navigate to your Defcon.exe (by default in C:\Program Files\Defcon\Defcon.exe)


B) Could you post an ipconfig output:
1) Press the 'Start' button
2) Select 'Run ...'
3) Enter 'cmd' (if on windows XP/2000) or 'command' (if on windows 9x) in the 'Open' textbox.
4) Press the 'OK' button
5) After the command prompt as opened, enter 'ipconfig'
6) Select the output and paste it here. (You may need from the menu that appears when clicking on top left corner icon the 'Edit' -> 'Mark' and 'Edit' -> 'Copy' functions)


C)Unrelated to your problem, you could update Defcon to the latest version.

[Feud]

The first question when such issues arise:

Are your drivers updated?

Actually, that would be: have you tried disabling the windows firewall. What does that give?

Would a firewall issue explain the lockups? Even if it wouldn't connect, he should be able to at least load a game.

[frenchfrog]

Defcon use a client/server architecture even in local game.

[shinygerbil]

When you start a new game, if only the chatbox appears, you definitely have a network problem. At least, that's what I've inferred from frenchfrog's previous posts.