RobW1
Caldari
Iyen-Oursta Salvage
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Posted - 2006.10.28 01:38:00 -
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 Originally by: Lady Gadiva
I'm gonna make this quite clear before i continue, this IS NOT a whine about the state of the server, rather the mess the client is in after christ knows how many half baked patches.
Since Dragon deployment i have been unable to reliably connect to the server. I wonder if anyone else has the same problem. U hit connect , get the processing bulk data messages and all that , and then just when u expect to go to the character select screen, what happens?
Absolutley nothing.
It just sits there.
So u hit connect and get some bull**** about local session information being corrupted and having to restart the client.
So you do.
And the same thing happens.
OVER
AND
OVER
AGAIN
In the end i restart my machine. Sometimes that fixes it. But not always. Sometimes i just have to try and connect THIRTY OR FOURTY times before i get in. And then 10 minutes later my client crashes and the whole sorry mess starts again.
And yes, ive tried reinstalling the client.
All that achieved was resetting all my options and deleting my BM folders.
Whine over.
Remember that in the time between pre Dragon to now ALOT will have changed... Virus patterns, firewall rules, configuration in BT land. Not just the client.
So to blame it on the client is in fact WRONG. To vent here is in fact WRONG. As several other people have said it's time to GROW-UP. There are 30,000 people who can help you, just go through the n-th level of detail, and we WILL fix your problem, because that's what we're all here for (sort of).
Check things like firewall rules and antivirus settings, relax these as much as you feel comfortable doing, or replace them with other products, and give them a spin. For example, if you have the BT Home Hub, ditch the PC based firewall, and see what happens. *Ideally* ditch Windows 98 (did I read that right - you're running Win 98?).
Trial and error is unfortunately the only way since if you look at the 30,000+ active people online *every single person* has a different configuration... ever so slightly different, but still different.
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