Problems Server Browsing With 3.0 B3
Urban_X
Join Date: 2004-02-13 Member: 26502Members
Join Date: 2004-02-13 Member: 26502Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">argh</div> firstly, the specs.
AMD 2000+ 1.67
Geforce FX5200
2X60gig HS
512m DDR RAM
Windows XP pro
(all updated drivers)
512K DSL line (routed through LAN)
OK, here's the problem. a few nights ago, whilst playing on a 32 player conbat only server, NS crashed out on me. i thought nothing of it, considering 1. it's a beta and 2 it happens all the time. But after this crash, i try to go back into NS, and start to browse the servers. this is where the problem lies. nothing appears in the server list, and i get "could not contact master game server to retrieve server list". after repetitive attempts, i do the first thing all people using steam do: uninstall the lot and restart from scratch. both steam and the NS3.0 beta. i head back into NS, but alas: no luck, still same message. after all my attempts, i ahve turned to what i hope will be the people to answer my question :o
a bit more info. trying to connect to a server through the console, it hangs on "establishing network connection with server". then after a while, it'll keep on retrying. i ahve tried other servers (with varied maps, players, etc.). moreso, i had a few servers in my favourites, doubleclick on them brings up the connect window, but hitting refresh does nothing.
any ideas?
AMD 2000+ 1.67
Geforce FX5200
2X60gig HS
512m DDR RAM
Windows XP pro
(all updated drivers)
512K DSL line (routed through LAN)
OK, here's the problem. a few nights ago, whilst playing on a 32 player conbat only server, NS crashed out on me. i thought nothing of it, considering 1. it's a beta and 2 it happens all the time. But after this crash, i try to go back into NS, and start to browse the servers. this is where the problem lies. nothing appears in the server list, and i get "could not contact master game server to retrieve server list". after repetitive attempts, i do the first thing all people using steam do: uninstall the lot and restart from scratch. both steam and the NS3.0 beta. i head back into NS, but alas: no luck, still same message. after all my attempts, i ahve turned to what i hope will be the people to answer my question :o
a bit more info. trying to connect to a server through the console, it hangs on "establishing network connection with server". then after a while, it'll keep on retrying. i ahve tried other servers (with varied maps, players, etc.). moreso, i had a few servers in my favourites, doubleclick on them brings up the connect window, but hitting refresh does nothing.
any ideas?
Comments
It sounds like a Steam issue to be honest.
Basicaly what it sounds like is that you can't connect to the Steam server...
Have you rebooted your computer a fewtimes during this entire debacle?
Did you PURGE steam from your system or just unistall (uninstalling honestly does very little to steam, it leaves behind ALOT of registry stuff <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
if you don't know what the registry is, don't touch it.
Look around this forum/google for a compleate unistaller for Steam (there is one out there, I don't know much about it)