FLOG THE NOOOB!

(The Dawg) #1

Hello, someone turned me onto the game- wth? Why have I wasted money on AA, CODUO, COD2- great game, simple fast graphics, enough servers- good stuff.

Now, my problem (I did search for a couple of days on and off before posting) I DL’d the primary and patch 2.60- installed the primary, played, rebooted, played again, Ccleaned, defragged- installed patch “awaiting gamestate”- tried several servers-
uninstalled game, repeat above process (waiting carefully the whole time) NO background -noncritical- services running.
Mind you- without patch game loads and I could join game[s]
Went to the router, allowed the port range, went to AV/Ahacker software and made sure appropriate permissions etc-
Ideas? Disabled the firewall, used windows firewall, tried with all the shields down- no connect.

XP sp2, P4 3.0hyperthread, 2gigs Geil, X850XT, seagate drive, audigy2. Kaspersky AV-antihacker, windows firewall disabled at services.msc. Javasun5- I think Im up on all the drivers, updates etc.

'preciate any help

regards- teh dawg

(Sauron|EFG) #2

Make sure that Kaspersky isn’t blocking ET.exe.

(kamikazee) #3

Even if you added it to the safe list before patching it, it might have noticed that et.exe changed. You need to give it its acces rights again.

(nUllSkillZ) #4

Couldn’t this be related to the V 2.60b patch?
As it seems to work without any patch.
You should try to install the V 2.60 patch.

(The Dawg) #5

Thanks for quick replies.
I actually disabled all the firewalls upon reboot- and tried the game. Maybe a registry block?
man, I’m baffled- I can usually tweak my way out of a problem.
but I’ll revisit the kaspersky’s list
Just dumbfounded why the primary install works sweetly, and the patch porks it.

I thought I was installing the 2.60 patch - just to make sure, could you post a link to the correct patch
regards

(shotgum) #6

ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/et/ET-2.60b.zip

(kamikazee) #7

2.60 patch:

http://enemy-territory.4players.de:1041/modules.php?name=files&show_dlfile=255

@Shotgun: that’s 2.60 B. You only want to install that one on a server or a non-ETPro client.

And you still need 2.60 installed.

(The Dawg) #8

So, from reading the posts, I do NOT need the 2.60b UNLESS I plan to host, correct?

regards

(nUllSkillZ) #9

Normally you would have to use it.
But if you use it you can’t play on most of the servers.
There was a discussion here in the forums about this patch.
Will try to find it.

Edit:

Found it:
Enemy Territory 2.60b “Patch”

(The Dawg) #10

thanks nulls, I found that earlier searching for my problem.

just played a bit before patching to 2.06, its fun- here goes :cool:

(nUllSkillZ) #11

It’s the best game ever.
Ähm, may be until ET:QW will be released.

Hopefully you can sort the problem out.

(The Dawg) #12

well hell…
patched to 2.60 and same thing, the first leg, awaiting response or whatever zips by instantly- then awaiting gamestate will climb as far as I let it, walked away, and 50+, so time isnt the problem.
Why on earth would it work perfectly- I maxed out textures, 4xAA 8xAF, quality etc and still get 40+ and beyond fps (havent even started to tweak the config file)\ BOOM install the patch and nothing. I can see the server list, so the game is communicating correctly with the master server list…dam dam dam checked the intrustion list- nothing, so its not being blocked by my hacker stuff as far as I can tell…
time to go study the readme file again

regards thanks for the input

teh dawg

(Nail) #13

update punkbuster with either pbweb.exe in pb folder of install or use pbsetup from evenbalance

(The Dawg) #14

I am able to get on. Issues of some kind with Kaspersky - pfffft Theres two exe’s in the ET folder, allowing one disables the rule for the other, and visa versa…
Using windows firewall and DMZ’ing router for port range- ok…got onto to a couple of servers but ONLY after a hellofa long wait for the handshake.
DL goes fine, get into game fine, pick side, spectate fine, good fps.
Still a dam long time to be acknowledged from server- went into three servers, average handshake time was 80 seconds…
nail- I did that, PB was NOT auto-updating, and a couple of whatevers behind. thanks.

(EB) #15

Lately…it seems that there are more players on unpatched anyways.

I suggest using unpatched and patched…and then base your server choice(s) after judging the quality of the server.
(of course what I just said is considered to be “sacreligious” to some ET players, as some think that 2.60 is the end-all be all of the game…but it IS just a game…so have fun. :wink: )
…I say play all patches that have servers.

(fattakin) #16

I have to admit ET can be difficult to setup at times on a clean install, espically with punkbuster. Yeah its ok if youve done it a few times or have firnds who can guide you, but for a newcomer, ive seem many just give up!

Hopefully QW will be a bit more streamlined etc

(The Dawg) #17

Well, after the 7 discs that COD2 requires, uninstalling, reinstalling ET is a BREEZE!
It would be nice to have an easier to track down FAQ for install problems, updated from the original version.
BUT, there (here) is/was quick, very quick support.
I posted the exact same first post I did here, on THREE other ET sites…no replies- here I got several in 24 hours. THATS what made the difference
And I considered just playing the ET without the patch. It defineatly seems the game loads quicker, less headaches, but I’ll figure it out, almost there now, have played patched game about 3 servers.
regards-

(nUllSkillZ) #18

You could also try to take a look at the activision support side.
Customer Support @ Activision.com
You have to select the product.
And then you get several questions with answers.

(Sauron|EFG) #19

I’ve seen several of those posts but chose to only reply here. Don’t hold that against the other forums. :wink:

(The Dawg) #20

[quote=“Sauron|EFG”]

I’ve seen several of those posts but chose to only reply here. Don’t hold that against the other forums. ;)[/quote]

Not judging, but when looking for a forum to “join” and start lurking, submitting etc, its easier to find one with traffic, one of those forums has had only three "views’ so far…probably me making sure I posted correctly LOL!

cheers-

got the Nostromo52 back out of the junk drawer, and having a good time getting used to the engine modeling- some is dam straight copy from COD, some- like ‘lean’ is getting me killed LOL

again- thanks for the feedback, still a slow go, I’m sure its my security, and punkbuster have a b1tch fight, but once its over, it goes pretty smoothly.