My new laptop wont connect to any game server

Mindscar · Post by **Mindscar** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 3:03 am

Still no luck. I reinstalled like 12 times. I moved the folder to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Allegiance. I ran it as admin. I ran a program compatibility wizard where allegiance thinks its running on XP service pack 2. Nothing. I can see the servers listed in the lobby, I just can't connect to them.

Mindscar · Post by **Mindscar** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 3:29 am

I was able to create a game on all 3 servers but I failed to connect to my own games.

Post by **FreeBeer** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:17 am

Ok, just so I understand what you're saying... can you successfully join games that are listed on the lobby screen? You can't join a game that you've created?

Grimmwolf_GB · Post by **Grimmwolf_GB** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:44 am

Mindscar, are you using WLAN to connect to your home net, or are you using cabled LAN. If you used WLAN, try cabled LAN and if you tried cabled, try WLAN.

Mindscar · Post by **Mindscar** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:57 pm

Grimmwolf_GB wrote:QUOTE (Grimmwolf_GB @ Dec 29 2008, 03:44 AM) Mindscar, are you using WLAN to connect to your home net, or are you using cabled LAN. If you used WLAN, try cabled LAN and if you tried cabled, try WLAN.

Ive tried both, same effect

Mindscar · Post by **Mindscar** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:00 pm

FreeBeer wrote:QUOTE (FreeBeer @ Dec 29 2008, 12:17 AM) Ok, just so I understand what you're saying... can you successfully join games that are listed on the lobby screen? You can't join a game that you've created?

No I can't join any games period with my laptop. I was however able to create a game which I found strange.

Grimmwolf_GB · Post by **Grimmwolf_GB** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:17 pm

Ok, your router or connection to the router is not the problem, I think. That only leaves the laptop and its firewall. You can try to control it with the nice freeware tool, I use on my vista partition:
http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/

With that you can check the exact vista firewall settings.

Mindscar · Post by **Mindscar** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:30 pm

I have DirectX 10 on my laptop, could that be why Allegiance isn't working? Or when I installed framework it says it "may not" of installed properly. I would think if 1.1 didn't install right Alleg wouldn't run at all, right? Also just to make sure I was properly update I copied my Allegiance folder from the desktop to the notebook. I can't help feel it's some minor vista issue that would never of come up on XP or 98.

Mindscar · Post by **Mindscar** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:41 pm

Grimmwolf_GB wrote:QUOTE (Grimmwolf_GB @ Dec 30 2008, 07:17 PM) Ok, your router or connection to the router is not the problem, I think. That only leaves the laptop and its firewall. You can try to control it with the nice freeware tool, I use on my vista partition:
http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/

With that you can check the exact vista firewall settings.

I tried that program out, didn't care for it much. However while i was moving files over to my laptop i used msn messenger. While file sharing both computers need to be in sync for it, i had to turn off all firewalls to do that. After I did that I checked Alleg again and the same problem. I'm sure it's not a firewall issue or else I would never be able to get into the main lobby, which is what happens if I leave the fire wall up on the desktop.

Mindscar · Post by **Mindscar** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 4:18 am

Ping 204.16.202.184

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