Logging into the foyer under Windows XP

[R'as al Ghul]

Drisos,

if you have Rome you can install it from the CD,
otherwise simply go here
and download it.
Concerning fat32 you can, if you have a spare partition, simply
go to "Computeradministration" and per right-click format a drive
into a fat32 drive.
Iirc you don't have an empty spare partition.
To explain how to create one, that is how to partition your drive
is quite complicated, but I'll see if I can find a Howto.
Don't despair.

[Just A Girl]

I can walk him through the partitioning and formating in to fat 32.
But he will loose all his stuff that he has on the pc now.
So im avoiding that course of action.

[Tomisama]

By all accounts posted here, it should not be necessary to reformat.

There are other things that can and should be done first.

Contact your internet provider, and explain the problem. Make an appointment with a tech service at a local shop, or have the Geek Squad make a visit, whatever.

If you start doing things you personally don’t understand, you could be digging your self even deeper into the hole on this.

XP wise, this is a "no brainer". Shogun works on XP fine. There is something else wrong. It could be as simple as something wrong with your copy of STW, or it might be with your internet provider.

Have you tried other Total War programs, and verified that they do or don’t work with your computer and connection?

Have you picked up another copy of Warlord (or Shogun) yet, to give that a try?

Please do the simplest and least expensive things first

[Just A Girl]

Actualy This problem is 100% xp based.
And only afects Xp systems.

What exactly the problem stw has with xp is yet to be discoverd.
But the situaton only occurs under windows xp.
Prehaps NT as well as they use the same basic design.
NT was never designed to run games, And as such XP is not built on the best foundations.

I fixed the same problem By fixing my windows XP to run with it.
I did Lots and Fat 32 was the thing that worked.
Meaning that xp no longer uses The NTFS system which was NEVER designed to work well with games.

Others using xp, dont suffer the problem to such a degree Although All xp users Suffer from the log in problem, No xp user can log in to the foyer in 1 try every time. (98 users can,)

This has been a known STW issue since Xp's release. And has undoubtedly helped the demize of the MP comunity since.

[Tomisama]

Others using xp, dont suffer the problem to such a degree Although All xp users Suffer from the log in problem, No xp user can log in to the foyer in 1 try every time.

But all XP users “can eventually” logon.

Drisos can not even achieve this basic level of inefficiency.

That’s why I say his current problem is not XP.

Though there may be ways to improve performance by changing formats, if he can not gain connection even “one time” now, there is something else wrong!