Methos6848
02-24-2004, 00:12
For the past week, I've been trying to resolve a rather convoluted problem my friend has encountered, when attempting to play STW/WLE and other games online.
He has been able to join the game/chat foyer on EA Play and is able to chat with the other players in the foyer, but has been unable to see hosted battles when they are posted. Despite the fact that other players can see and join the battles that have been posted. He has also been having the same problem with another game, on Gamespy Arcade (which he and I were able to play without difficulty, up until last Wednesday...when this problem popped up out of thin air). The oddest thing is that he did'nt own STW/WLE until last Thursday. Upon installing STW/WLE and downloading the requisite patch, he got into the EA Play foyer and encountered the same problem we had on Gamespy the night before He can see the players, he can chat with them, but he cannot see hosted battles
He owns a Gateway 900mhz system, with 128mb of RDRAM, 32mb SDRAM, running Windows 98. He is currently using AOL Broadband for Cable for his internet provider. He has McCafee Virus protection and claims to have deactivated his firewall and is not using a router. He recieves no error messages and simply cannot host, nor see hosted games. The same symptoms appeared the night before he bought STW/WLE, with an Activision game on Gamespy. He goes in there and can see the players and chat with them, but cannot see the games that have been hosted.
After months of convincing my friend to purchase STW/WLE, he finally buys it and we cannot play because of this inexplicable problem I beg of you guys and gals, if any of you have a solution to resolve this problem, please share it I consider myself to be fairly computer tech savvy and this one has me utterly stumped. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-computer.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-help.gif
He has been able to join the game/chat foyer on EA Play and is able to chat with the other players in the foyer, but has been unable to see hosted battles when they are posted. Despite the fact that other players can see and join the battles that have been posted. He has also been having the same problem with another game, on Gamespy Arcade (which he and I were able to play without difficulty, up until last Wednesday...when this problem popped up out of thin air). The oddest thing is that he did'nt own STW/WLE until last Thursday. Upon installing STW/WLE and downloading the requisite patch, he got into the EA Play foyer and encountered the same problem we had on Gamespy the night before He can see the players, he can chat with them, but he cannot see hosted battles
He owns a Gateway 900mhz system, with 128mb of RDRAM, 32mb SDRAM, running Windows 98. He is currently using AOL Broadband for Cable for his internet provider. He has McCafee Virus protection and claims to have deactivated his firewall and is not using a router. He recieves no error messages and simply cannot host, nor see hosted games. The same symptoms appeared the night before he bought STW/WLE, with an Activision game on Gamespy. He goes in there and can see the players and chat with them, but cannot see the games that have been hosted.
After months of convincing my friend to purchase STW/WLE, he finally buys it and we cannot play because of this inexplicable problem I beg of you guys and gals, if any of you have a solution to resolve this problem, please share it I consider myself to be fairly computer tech savvy and this one has me utterly stumped. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-computer.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-help.gif