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HI

Although I connect to lobby, I can not connect to any server. The message is ... Failed to connect to server.... so I can't play Please help

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Windows Version (and Service Packs): Vista home premium
Processor Speed: 2.13 Ghz
RAM: 2 GB
Video Card (Make and Model#): Radeon X1950pro
Sound Card (Make and Model#):
Connection Type (Dialup, Cable, DSL, other): DSL 4 MBps
Modem (Make and Model#): USRobotics model 9112
Router (Make and Model#):
Internet Service Provider(company name): Forthnet
Location(State/Province/Locality, and Country): Athens Greece
Installed Mods:

Problem Encountered at Step #: 10
Which Program (ASGS/Allegiance): allegiance
What Error Message: Failed to connect to server
Comments

um.. you list a USRobotics modem... that's a dial-up modem, no? Yet you show a DSL connection. I just want to clarify that you're actually connecting through the DSL, correct?

ok... first thing for you to try is to defragment your hard drive. If your hard drive is fragmented, Alleg can take a long time to load up all the graphics, sounds, etc. it needs. While it's doing that, it's also trying to connect to the server, and it may time out. Defragging allows for a quicker load of those files.

If that doesn't help, try connecting to a server that has EU in the name. (It'll be something like "EU DN 4.60"). The EU servers, as you can probably figure out, are in Europe. Being from Greece, your ping times to the EU servers should be better than to the North American ones. This should help you connect quicker and beat the "time-out clock".

Please let us know how it goes. There's other things we can try, too.

Um...he's got Vista Home Premium listed as his OS. mike_haros, I'm afraid you're in the same boat as a bunch of other people with a vista version other than Vista Business. There seems to be some kind of problems associated with it, some people can get it to work, but others can't :\ I'd suggest you search the forums for "vista" and "connection" and try out the solutions offered in those threads, they might work out for you.

Also you might want to give the beta a try

http://www.freeallegiance.org/forums/index...t=0&start=0

If it is timing out connecting to the server the beta allows more time for the initial connection. It also takes ASGS out of the equation as the beta does not need it (at the moment). If the beta works fine that gives us a little more info.

Dog

I have installed the game at the office where i have XP and the game worked fine. I have the same provider as with home with 2 MBps internet connection speed ( I dont remember the ADSL router model) I aslo tried dogbones' beta but no solution