Server appears to be down

Post by **Papsmear** » Sun Feb 14, 2016 5:14 pm

I was able to connect to the lobby today with no issue but ACSS downloaded a file.
Any info on what that downloaded file was?

spliffyhat · Post by **spliffyhat** » Sun Feb 14, 2016 5:54 pm

Imago wrote:QUOTE (Imago @ Feb 14 2016, 12:02 PM) My issue was resolved by going to Control Panel -> Turn windows features on or off, Check the Legacy Components then Click OK.

thanx

I did what you said , my legacy was ticked.
so i unticked and ticked it.
it worked

Post by **BackTrak** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 4:38 am

Papsmear wrote:QUOTE (Papsmear @ Feb 14 2016, 11:14 AM) I was able to connect to the lobby today with no issue but ACSS downloaded a file.
Any info on what that downloaded file was?

Hi Paps,

details can be found in the Allegiance 1.2 root directory:

2/15/2016 4:27:13 AM UTC: File did not exist: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Allegiance 1.2\Production\artwork\PCore010.igc, will update.

2/15/2016 4:27:18 AM UTC: File did not exist: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Allegiance 1.2\Beta\newgamescreen.mdl, will update.

2/15/2016 4:28:30 AM UTC: Updating artwork\PCore010.igc... Succeeded.

2/15/2016 4:28:30 AM UTC: Updating newgamescreen.mdl... Succeeded.

newgamescreen.mdl was a cross pollination with beta I'm afraid.

Post by **BackTrak** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 4:41 am

Imago wrote:QUOTE (Imago @ Feb 14 2016, 10:56 AM) i am currently getting "Failed to connect to the lobby" immediately after pressing the current games list button. Also, beta is broken, won't load due to missing MDL artwork.

Hi Imago,

The Allegiance 1.2 beta is currently down. The R8 Allegiance 1.3 beta is here:

https://github.com/FreeAllegiance/Alleg ... up_131.zip

I need to update the launcher to point people to something more informative.

Thanks!

Imago · Post by **Imago** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:48 am

We should seriously consider working in some kind of code in the startup of allegiance.exe that ensures directplay is "enabled" in windows 10.

Post by **BackTrak** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 1:39 am

Hi Imago,

I know of this command line option to turn that on:

dism /online /enable-feature /FeatureName:DirectPlay

and this command to check the current status of the feature:

dism /online /get-featureinfo /FeatureName:DirectPlay

It would be pretty easy to shell out from allegiance to run these and parse out the results, but they are pretty slow. Do you know of a way to check and enable windows features outside of the command line? These could also be integrated into the installer.

Thanks,
-BT

Djole88 · Post by **Djole88** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 7:49 am

BackTrak wrote:QUOTE (BackTrak @ Feb 19 2016, 02:39 AM) Hi Imago,

I know of this command line option to turn that on:

dism /online /enable-feature /FeatureName:DirectPlay

and this command to check the current status of the feature:

dism /online /get-featureinfo /FeatureName:DirectPlay

It would be pretty easy to shell out from allegiance to run these and parse out the results, but they are pretty slow. Do you know of a way to check and enable windows features outside of the command line? These could also be integrated into the installer.

Thanks,
-BT

CreateProcess ?

or use reg monitor (process monitor) to see what does that command change and write to reg directly?

Imago · Post by **Imago** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 11:30 am

maybe just include the dplay.dll in the allegiance folder if == win10

Djole88 · Post by **Djole88** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 12:32 pm

Imago wrote:QUOTE (Imago @ Feb 19 2016, 12:30 PM) maybe just include the dplay.dll in the allegiance folder if == win10

Yeah, try that 1st (dunno about legal issues) and hope that dplay stuff isn't being fetched via GUIDs

Imago · Post by **Imago** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 4:30 pm

i thought we wanted legal issues....