Bargeld

Stay on topic or take it elswhere please. This is for tech support. I did the deletions of the extraneous posts.

high latency means that it could be the quality of your computer, not necessarily the quality of your internet connection. You can get specced and receive the high latency message when you alt-tab, if your computer isn't up to par, or if you have a lot of applications open. Try using the task manager (cntrl-alt-del) and closing anything unnecessary.

Ad-aware. Free. Updated. Free. Functional. Free. Easy. Did I mention that it works and it's free?

comp 1 firewall?

Get DirectX 9.0b and the newest video card drivers.

use the arrow keys to select it, then press the "end task" button.

Then lets BOTH keep it calm and try to figure it out. Certain things need to be done in a certain order, so when ppl suggest a solution, sometimes you might want to try it a second or third time, rather than just skipping it. We are here to help, and you simply aren't taking it.

ok It's because the "first" time you try to run it... it was already running. You can see it in task manager. So you log off, it stops the process of loading it. In task manager (when you log back on) it will not be listed. Therefore when you run it the "second" time it works because logging out stopped the process. And I use "first" and "second" because the application was already running when you started your motions. They are actually the "second" and "third." BUT this proves that it's not loading. So lets go from there.

There is a point at which your knowledge of the game is exceeded by others. You have hit this point here with me. Either I am unable to properly describe how the architecture of this game works, or you are unable to understand my description. Regardless, for over 7 years I've seen people SWEAR they got hit with a 600 damage bullet in alpha. The max damage is 400, therefore there is another explanation. The same is true here. You swear something is happening, but you are unable to determine it yet. Grasping at reasons and !@#$%^&*igning them as the problem does not help, nor will we learn from it. And BTW.. a cloaker sitting in front of or on top of you WILL cause a bullet to "disappear as soon as you shoot it."

The message about dll failed because the workstation is shutting down makes sense, especially when you say that you start continuum, then shut down the computer. And the load once and wont load the second time.... I bet you can hit cntrl alt del and see the process still running... which prevents a second instance of it from working. Obviously you haven't been there, or done that.

the only answers i have are: A) no prox, looks like it's going thru them and u a cloaker sitting in front of you

Short lesson here: Servers should never be used as workstations. When you run a server for anything, you set up a machine to do it, start it up, then walk away and never touch it again. The reasoning behind this: When you run different applications, and start and stop them, you change the configurations of the computer, no matter how miniscule. To the smallest degree, you need to cache memory or files to the hard drive, and the hard drive's data storage changes. The more stuff you run, the more you change your computer. Web browsers are notorius fiends, especially because of their integration with the operating system in a windows environment (explorer and internet explorer are basically the same thing.) What it boils down to is this: Computers don't change themselves, they react to user input. If continuum worked 2 weeks ago, and now it doesn't, then you changed something during that time. You can swear up and down that you didn't... but that's the same thing as swearing that you will never find the solution. Find what changed, fix it, and you will be straight.

this cannot happen... and it definately can't be blamed on ploss. The game client will always make bombs and bullets hit the enemy on your screen locally, because it doesn't have time to send it to the server then receive the response back from the server, then display that response on your screen. You can never see what the other person sees, so you will never really know whether your bullets/bombs hit. No offense, but what you describe simply cannot happen... You are exaggerating quite a bit.

Make sure you aren't changing the "profile" name instead of the "player" name. http://www.bargeld.us/storage/profile.gif

If you have a geforce2 card, there are known issues with it and continuum....

turn off stuff in the background... installing apps that run in the background can steal your bandwidth and cause small ploss like this. All of that aside.... 0.6% is NOTHING. You lose an average of 6 out of 1000 packets. Could be server game data, could be position data, could be checksums, could be weapons... but its minimal. The only time you really start noticing ploss is when it gets above 3 and 4 percent. I play on a wireless laptop with 2.5% s2c and I don't care.

The lockout only lasts four hours, that way you don't need to contact any admins to have it reset.

Try "avoid page flipping" and "no framerate limit" in the game's advanced options.

In your player Profile, make sure your PLAYERNAME (not profile name) does not start with any invalid symbols, such as * & % etc, the name has to begin with a letter or number.

and what format? (should be saved as an 8 bit .bmp file with the default ss color palette.)

It could also be a permissions problem for the location you are installing it. If the computer's administrator has disallowed permissions to write within the directories in question, then you won't be able to download any new zones/graphics/etc.

Problems with web browsing means a problem with your DNS settings. If you were given DNS addresses by the isp, then enter them on each PC's network config.

in the router make sure of a few things (I am the IT guy at work, so I know routers in general, but am not intimately familiar with your model, so some of this may not apply....) Start from scratch: hold the router's reset button for 10 secs before you begin the setup. According to the manual, the default LAN IP of the router is: 192.168.0.1 So go to Comp1 and set the IP to 192.168.0.2 and set Comp2 to 192.168.0.3 It is manditory that all computers on the submit have IPs beginning with 192.168.0 or they will not see each other. Use either computer to go to the router's config (web browse to 192.168.0.1) Gateway: The ISP provides this for you. Subnet: 255.255.255.0 (default) DNS: if the ISP hasn't told you anything about the DNS, then leave it blank. If they gave you DNS addresses (usually 2) then enter those in the router config. Set the router to have the ISP assign it's WAN IP. Do not try to specify the WAN IP of the router, unless directed otherwise by the ISP. Make sure that DHCP is OFF, you don't need to use it, and as you can see, it only complicates the issue. Use static IP's. Make sure that all static routing, port configs, etc are default (not set to anything.) On to the PC's... IPs: see above Subnet: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.0.1 (the router is the gateway) DNS: same as above Make sure the workgroup names match. Save the PC setings and turn them OFF (do not restart) Save the router settings and then Logout. Then unplug it for 20 secs (do not use the reset button.) Turn the router on and let it finish doing its thing. Turn on the PCs. WHOALA!

Usually, when your computer acts erratically after a reinstall of the OS, it means that you have a hardware problem somewhere. Check your device manager (control panel> system) and make sure there aren't any resource sharing problems with sound cards, network cards, etc.

I private message'd myself the same link that you have in the screenshot, and it worked fine... no errors with anything.