Stuck in direct play

[-STO-Badblood 0]

A member of my group [sTO] joined a hosted game in direct play. His game crashed at the time. Since then, he can start OFP in single play and can connect in direct play but freezes when changing to sockets.

He uninstalled OFP, cleaned the registry, reloaded the game, eithernet card, etc.. - game still behaves the same.

Using OFP - 1.96 w/ ECP

Trying to help out but I ran out of suggestions. Anyone have any ideas?

1SG BadBlood [sTO]

[bn880 5]

Not sure, did he rename his computer network name? If so make him use something very simple like thepc

No firewalls etc?

[-STO-Badblood 0]

From BuhBye [sTO]

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I had a reload of windows and ofp about a month ago. I loaded the marine pack via an exe file and all was well.

A couple of weeks after the reload I was joining by IP sockets and the server wasn't there. I then hit direct play to see if it was there. It wasn't. I clicked to go back to sockets and my game and video froze. The computer however was fine. TS still worked as did everything else. However, I couldn't get out of the game.

I hit alt-tab and the window popped up to chose a program. The game would not minimize.

I reloaded the game, removed all first (ie: reg entries etc.). It did not fix it. I could load internet games in direct play, but sockets locked me up.

I formatted my HD, reloaded windows, then reloaded the game and all was fine.

THEN... I was on and someone in my group asked if I wanted to come on his server and check out the marine pack, so not having used it yet I said sure. I reinstalled it not knowing that it was that caused the earlier problem and went to join. Again no server. He said he was up in direct play cause the addon didn't work for him in socket to host a game .I hit direct play and the game froze.

After that - I rebooted and tried to get back to sockets and... NO WAY same thing.

I have tried removing my internet card, video card and did an overlay of windows and nothing has fixed it. I cant tell if its a network problem or video but thus far only formatting has fixed this.

I really don't want to go through the OS load again! Any ideas are very welcome cause I'm dry.

buhBye@stogroup.net

Sincerely,

1SG BadBlood [sTO] - badblood@stogroup.net

[Gadger 0]

Tell him to open his userinfo file in notepad, and edit direct play to sockets, by replacing the 0 with a 1 as shown below. OFP directory, then users folder ~ User name then it should be just there:

};

version=1;

useSockets=1;

browsingSource="Internet";

class Filter

{

serverName="dra";

missionName="";

maxPing=0;

minPlayers=0;

maxPlayers=0;

fullServers=1;

passwordedServers=1;

};

It will work as normal then.

Alternatively he could just delete the folder altogether and create a new profile.

[edit]made it more understandable[/edit]

[-STO-Badblood 0]

Great - Thanks !!!

[Gadger 0]

Quote[/b] ]Great - Thanks !!!

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[Placebo 29]

LOL stop touting for votes, that's my job

[BuhBye 0]

Thanx for the help. It worked to get me back in game but the sockets dir play is still bunged up. Whatever is wrong is in windows cause reloading game or creating a new profile does not fix it. But Im killin stuff!!! Thanx again SGT BuhBye[sTO]