Cant start a game

[Sixu]

Hello, I recently download and bought a boxed copy of Defcon (and the soundtrack)

For some reason though, my game won't start? But less than a week ago the demo did.



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As you can see I can't start a game because the panel is missing/hidden. When I hover my mouse over the area the cursor changes, as you can see.

[frenchfrog]

This a network problem, Defcon is probably not able to found your computer IP or is not able to connect to your own computer IP because of a firewall, ...

A) Add Defcon to any Firewall you have running.

B) Could you post your debug.txt file found in the Defcon directory?

C) Post 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)

D) Are you able to join a game created by someone else?

[Sixu]

A) I just have the wondws firewall, Defcon is listed in the exceptions. I also disabled the entire firewall and tried to see if that made any difference. To no avail.

B)

Defcon 1.42 built May 3 2007
Parsing archive main.dat...DONE
Client listening on port 5011
Parsing Coastline data (1776 islands) : 48ms
Parsing International data (2753 islands) : 21ms
Parsing City data (2745 cities) : 34ms
Parsing archive sounds.dat...DONE
Authentication key set : 'Censored'
Connection established to MetaServer, listening on Port 5009
Requesting data from MetaServer : LatestVersion
Requesting data from MetaServer : MOTD
Received data from MetaServer : LatestVersion
Received data from MetaServer : MOTD
CLIENT : Disconnected
EclRemoveWindow failed on window LOBBY
Server started on port 5010
CLIENT : Attempting connection to Server at 0.1.0.4:5010...
Started requesting public IP:port for socket 940
MetaServer enabling UDP broadcast for LAN discovery...SUCCESS
MetaServer : WAN registration enabled
MetaServer : LAN registration enabled
Socket 940 identified as public IP 84.65.4.85:5010
Requesting authentication of key Censored
Received Authentication : Censored : (keyID Censored) : Accepted
Authentication HashToken set to 551880533
Requesting data from MetaServer : UpdateURL
Received data from MetaServer : UpdateURL
MetaServer : LAN registration disabled
CLIENT : Disconnected
SERVER : Shutting down...
SERVER : Shut down complete
Disconnected from MetaServer

C)

Windows IP Configuration:


Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 3:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 0.1.0.4
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

PPP adapter Speedtouch Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 84.65.4.85
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 84.65.4.85

D) Yup, I am fully able to join a game

[frenchfrog]

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

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 3:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 0.1.0.4
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

0.1.0.4 is an invalid IP, on your "Local Area Connection 3", 'Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)' properties, try entering an 'Alternative Configuration' with an address like 192.168.0.10 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 . After that reboot.

Please post back if it works or not.

[Sixu]

Yup, all works

Thankyou!