direct connect to server --problem

kingfatzo · Post by **kingfatzo** » Wed May 10, 2006 10:27 pm

Direct connecting to server :

Now that i am no longer on my miserable college network, i wanted to be able to direct connect to the server to bypass the stupidity of Gamespy.... BUT i get a message

"could not connect to master server some mplayer games may not be available"

I followed the instructions under the documentation posts my TGPO... and i was able to sucsessfully load a login screen, but when i hit login for my user name, i get the above message.... Any ideas ? thx.

Elagneros · Post by **Elagneros** » Wed May 10, 2006 10:39 pm

It means Gamespy sucks.

I sometimes get the message, but usually I can connect to NS4 anyway so I ignore it. And Gamespy sucks anyway.

OneKnightinChina · Post by **OneKnightinChina** » Thu May 11, 2006 2:19 am

i get a simular message too

NWN wrote: "Connection error: could not translate address"

i'm sure that i typed in the address correctly too.

C:\NeverwinterNights\NWN\nwmain.exe +connect ns4.nsrealm.com

Post by **TGPO** » Thu May 11, 2006 2:39 am

replace ns4 with ns1 and it will work fine. ns4 is a throw back to when we had 4 seperate servers with the module broken up across them.

OneKnightinChina · Post by **OneKnightinChina** » Thu May 11, 2006 3:02 am

TGPO wrote:replace ns4 with ns1 and it will work fine. ns4 is a throw back to when we had 4 seperate servers with the module broken up across them.

Thank you, i'll try that.

Edit: it didn't work, i'm still getting the same message.

Alain · Post by **Alain** » Thu May 11, 2006 3:31 am

Heres what mine is linked to:

C:\NeverwinterNights\NWN\nwmain.exe +connect ns4beta1.servegame.com:5121

kingfatzo · Post by **kingfatzo** » Thu May 11, 2006 3:32 am

thx !....

Now another concern -- and maybe the direct connect will fix it -- i have two computers running ns4 and at times i swich accounts from cpu to cpu becuase my laptop sucks and if im doing somthing difficult i want to be able to have a crisp image.....

with that said -- twice in the past two days -- i have done this "rotation" and have one of the toons taht i logged off still there on the server , hence causing a duplication... tonight my "ghost" character that was not really logged in was intertwined with someone elses Tell's and this person was also able to read our party chat through my character which di not belong..

whew i hope that made some sence..

anyways, i hope that the direct connect eliminates this from happening , so i can log in and out fast w/o having to wait for the server / GAMESPY to catch up..... if not , i will be sure to wait a minute so that the NS server can clear my logout-- the last thing i want to happen is for myself or someone elses toon get corrupetd.

another item -- this evening ( morning) when i logged this duplicated toon back on -- twice he was suddenly disconnected... and i know it was not my internet taking a dump ...

Mindless babble yes... but thx again to all of you

kingfatzo · Post by **kingfatzo** » Thu May 11, 2006 3:39 am

TGPO -- that didnt work for me

.. im trying Alain's now.

kingfatzo · Post by **kingfatzo** » Thu May 11, 2006 3:41 am

Aye Alain's worked.... thx !

OneKnightinChina · Post by **OneKnightinChina** » Thu May 11, 2006 4:07 am

Alain wrote:Heres what mine is linked to:

C:\NeverwinterNights\NWN\nwmain.exe +connect ns4beta1.servegame.com:5121

great it's working now thank you Alain.

Go'f · Post by **Go'f** » Thu May 11, 2006 5:32 am

kingfatzo wrote:thx !....

Now another concern -- and maybe the direct connect will fix it -- i have two computers running ns4 and at times i swich accounts from cpu to cpu becuase my laptop sucks and if im doing somthing difficult i want to be able to have a crisp image.....

with that said -- twice in the past two days -- i have done this "rotation" and have one of the toons taht i logged off still there on the server , hence causing a duplication... tonight my "ghost" character that was not really logged in was intertwined with someone elses Tell's and this person was also able to read our party chat through my character which di not belong..

whew i hope that made some sence..

anyways, i hope that the direct connect eliminates this from happening , so i can log in and out fast w/o having to wait for the server / GAMESPY to catch up..... if not , i will be sure to wait a minute so that the NS server can clear my logout-- the last thing i want to happen is for myself or someone elses toon get corrupetd.

another item -- this evening ( morning) when i logged this duplicated toon back on -- twice he was suddenly disconnected... and i know it was not my internet taking a dump ...

Mindless babble yes... but thx again to all of you

Flavious had two monks on the player list at the same time, I suspect he had long since logged out on coming close to him i "became" him and could look through his player sheet (incomplete) and inventory, i could cast spells my character had quicksloted but only as if I was Flavious, I could not rest because I am of a different faction to flavious and hence no longer liked myself.

I logged out and back in, no fix

I logged a new charactor.. works ok.... until i step on the same map as the Flavious bug.

Post by **TGPO** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:48 am

Common issue. Both your computers are probably still using the default client port. Go into your nwnplayer.ini and look for Clientport, the default setting is 5200. On one or both machines change this number so that they are not the same. 5200 and 5201 for example will work just fine for you.

Death Dealer1 · Post by **Death Dealer1** » Thu May 11, 2006 12:45 pm

haha..didn't like yourself anymore. should have attacked ns just because it was so unbearable to be unlikeable.

aye, most times its client port that messes up multiple cpu's in a network running a game.

kingfatzo · Post by **kingfatzo** » Thu May 11, 2006 4:33 pm

aye i will do this Thx !

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Thu May 11, 2006 4:41 pm

Search is your friend!

http://www.nsrealm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=4420

(No one posted it yet, and I got tired of waiting...

) N00BZ!!!