Eliminating excessive timeout wait (join multiplayer screen)
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:45 am
For win, there's a replacement, see http://www.nsrealm.com/public/ns/viewto ... &t=1003673
While the master server is down, everyone is (unsurprisingly) irked by the long timeout. If you don't have premium modules or anything else that uses the bio auth server, blocking that in a way that returns a no connection error will remove that timeout.
Bypassing the long timeout is fairly easy:
For Win users (possibly mac as well? Don't know, try it and see, more likely to be related to linux method, which Lokey is still working on)
Find your hosts file.
Should be in %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
In general, navigating from your root directory (mine is C, yours might be some drive like J)
windows > system32 > drivers > etc > hosts (no extension)
If using Vista/Win7: Open notepad as an administrator. Copy the path in the address bar of windows explorer. Use the "open file" option of notepad, paste in the path, and open hosts.
Everyone else (XP): Open hosts with notepad.
Should look something like this:
Add this line at the end of it:
Then save as "hosts" (no extension).
There, done, boots up NWN and try to log in, should be much faster.
While the master server is down, everyone is (unsurprisingly) irked by the long timeout. If you don't have premium modules or anything else that uses the bio auth server, blocking that in a way that returns a no connection error will remove that timeout.
Bypassing the long timeout is fairly easy:
For Win users (possibly mac as well? Don't know, try it and see, more likely to be related to linux method, which Lokey is still working on)
Find your hosts file.
Should be in %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
In general, navigating from your root directory (mine is C, yours might be some drive like J)
windows > system32 > drivers > etc > hosts (no extension)
If using Vista/Win7: Open notepad as an administrator. Copy the path in the address bar of windows explorer. Use the "open file" option of notepad, paste in the path, and open hosts.
Everyone else (XP): Open hosts with notepad.
Should look something like this:
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# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost Code: Select all
0.0.0.0 nwmaster.bioware.comThere, done, boots up NWN and try to log in, should be much faster.