Allegiance freezes upon joining servers

thajes · Post by **thajes** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:44 am

Windows Version (and Service Packs): XP Home 2002 SP2
Processor Speed: Core duo 2 1.8 Ghz
RAM: 2048MB
Video Card (Make and Model#): nVidia Geforce Go 7600
Sound Card (Make and Model#): Onboard by Realtek
Connection Type (Dialup, Cable, DSL, other): CABLE
Modem (Make and Model#): Motorola SURFboard
Router (Make and Model#): D-Link DI-524, wireless connected through onboard wireless adapter by INTEL
Internet Service Provider(company name): Telenet
Location(State/Province/Locality, and Country): Belgium
Installed Mods: None.

Problem Encountered at Step #: 10
Which Program (ASGS/Allegiance): Allegiance
What Error Message: None
Comments (What you tried, description, etc): Got the same problem that ddhandarah states above
QUOTE Game is installed to the system drive. I get to the lobby (ASGS works okay and everything boots up okay.) Once I hit 'join game,' the mouse pointer changes to a smaller hourglass type thing once it reaches 'Joining Mission...' and just freezes where it last was. I end up having to terminate the process. Same thing happens when I enter lobby then hit '< Back' at the bottom.[/quote]
But I am in fact able to join and play on the nonzone stripe server at times, but not on the GPZ or any of the others. Also when I hit back anywhere, the game freezes. I have no firewall or antivirus agent installed anymore, and the windows firewall is disabled.
Get the feeling my connection gets delayed somewhere upon switching connections between servers. First thing ill be trying is connecting through utp.

thajes · Post by **thajes** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:56 am

Not working, on switching to UTP.

Could this have something to do with the .NET framework? I just installed it and updated it 'on the spot' no reboots. I reinstalled alleg after months of inactiveness, played the stripe server and never had any warning of problems untill the next day, today.

thajes · Post by **thajes** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:07 am

Sorry for the spamming here..

But my prob seems to be rather random, now i'm able to connect to all servers. 'Back' still makes the game freeze but when I restart and join all goes well - at times. Funny problem, guess the best there it to do is pray and be lucky.

Hope I have helped in any way.

Grimmwolf_GB · Post by **Grimmwolf_GB** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:48 pm

You obviously read the read me first post. (Thank you for that) But please, trust us, when we say: One topic per person and one person per topic. Problems might be similar, the solutions usually are not.

Connect to your router with a lan cable and try again. Wireless is crap for gaming.

thajes · Post by **thajes** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:06 pm

Well for now I've been able to play with both wireless and with UTP, and also the problem occurs on both occasions. So i'm guessing the problem has nothing to do with that.

Ive just played for more then 2hours and tried going back to the lobby, that worked, but upon joining the same server the problem reoccurs. The mistery remains.

I shall pray some more /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

Anyway thanx for your effort none the less, and this game is woth the hiccoughs.

ImmortalZ · Post by **ImmortalZ** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:39 pm

Hmm, it shows a hourglass?

Try this : Before you hit the button, switch to windowed mode (Alt+Enter) and watch for any firewall messages when you click the button.

Sometimes it just so happens that you can't rejoin a server that you get dropped from until the game in progress ends. I don't have any explanation for this though - its almost like the server doesn't close whatever port you were using and it just refuses to reconnect you.

Grimmwolf_GB · Post by **Grimmwolf_GB** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:15 pm

Try the lan cable and we can exclude wireless from the list of problem makers. Very often it is the wireless connection.

thajes · Post by **thajes** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:08 pm

Well Grimm I dunno what else to say, the problem occurs on utp lan cable just the same as it does on wireless, sometimes allegiance freezes sometimes it does not. Also I've noticed that the server I join doen't really matter. As of a few min ago I've played GPZ as smoothly as I did Stripe.
Again when I quit allegiance and restart it (back freezes allegiance) I get the same problem. Perhaps its some timeout-counter orso, preventing me from reconnecting within a certain time.

As for the windowed firewall prompt: Immortalz, Ive run it both windowed and full screen and never got any of these prompts. But keep the suggestions coming I appreciate it alot!

thajes · Post by **thajes** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:48 am

Hey guys, I've found what my problem was..

I don't know if you guys are familiar with it but Hamachi sets you up with an extra 'virtual ethernetcard'. I dissabled the networkcard in networkconfig and don't have any problems anymore connecting to games.

Only when I hit back does allegiance still freeze, but other then that all is going smoothly. So i'm happy as ever, and hope this piece of info can shed more light on probs going around.

My guess is that since ASGS and Hamachi both have kinda the same goal, that it conflicted with eachother. ASGS is working much smoother now.

Anyway,

Cheers and cyaround!

Grimmwolf_GB · Post by **Grimmwolf_GB** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:57 am

Thank you for the info.
I also use hamachi, but usually turn it off after using it. I will try to recreate the problem.