Paul_Brause

As far as I'm concerned: No, just on network device / no WiFi, Ethernet etc. / just one IP adress / router forwards to the correct IP (the computer's and not the external one, right?).

I'll check this with my m8 and keep you informed.

Hello again,

a battle (error 2755) has been won, but not the war yet...

Last night a friend of mine and me have tried to get a game started but we always failed. Via Teamspeak we could check that our settings are in accordance with the hints in this forum.

So here r the 'facts' so far (all subjects ref. to both players / PCs if not mentioned otherwise)

- Port 16000 (UDP) is open (although port checker @ my PC says it's closed.. but afaik port checker isn't 100 % reliabale.. I've checked the router settings more than once... the router settings definitely say: 16000 (UDP) is open... @ both routers even the ports 8088-28088 have been opened)

- Both routers don't offer any DMZ-settings anymore

- The options.ini has been edited as mentioned in the first post

- There isn't any hamachi, vpn or simliar stuff on our PCs

- Win-Firewalls definitely allow BfME free access, but to obviate any possibility of issues, they have been disabled, also any other AV- / security-programm, if existing

Did we miss something? Show your magic!

Edit: We both can enter the lobby without any issues. Pings are green. We get a connection error message (open your ports... refresh NAT... if you use DLink, then blabla) when tryin' to start a game, no matter who's hosting.

Good idea to move our discussion in an own topic as connection / port issues weren't the source of my problem.

Unless you didn't left it there on purpose you might have missed a post from you to move by accident.

To your health!

Did you check the create directory hint in the support link without updating msi?

Right now I'm not sure, which 'create hint' is meant by you.

Did you mean 'I was missing the a) `Windows\Installer` folder. Created it and that solved it.' or b) 'If your CD/DVD drive is not reading your game disk properly, then try copying all the files to a newly created a folder on to the desktop and then start installation.'?

If b): T3A:Online has already been moved by me with no effect ref. the 'Error 2755'.

If a): Hum..... hommmmm.... No, I haven't tried it 'til now. So I've just tried to create an 'Installer'-folder inside the win-folder @ C. But there was already one although it wasn't listed (and although I see every other hidden files and folders everywhere else beside of the Win-dir). So I've downloaded UnrealCommander, set Options to 'Show hidden files' and unchecked the 'read only' option @ the existing 'Installer' folder. Then I've tried to run the loginstall.bat once again. Guess what? Same error '2755'. :´(

Edit:

ICT, U R DA MAN! I've just tried to just run the T3A:Online-installer itself instead of the loginstall.bat-stuff. And it worked! Installation finished. And now I even see the "If you start the game then a small window should appear on which you can click "launch".-window.

And I ain't got port issues. I can enter the lobby!

I'm so excited... And I just can't hide it.... I'm about to lose control and I think I like it! *sing*

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! Tonight I'm @ a birthday party and I'll definetely have a beer and toast it to you!

To patch the ms-installer exceeds my noobish IT-knowledge coz I'm not even able to identify the necessary version for me (Win7 Ultimate Edition, 64bit).

WindowsServer2003SP1For32-bit:WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-x86.exe
For64-bit:WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-x64.exe
ForIA64Platform:WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-ia64.exeWindowsServer2003SP2WindowsXPSP2For32-bit:WindowsXP-KB942288-v3-x86.exe
For64-bit:WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-x64.exe
ForIA64Platform:WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-ia64.exeWindowsXPSP3WindowsVistaFor32-bit:Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-x86.msu
For64-bit:Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-x64.msu
ForIA64Platform:Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-ia64.msuWindowsVistaSP1WindowsServer2008

So I've downloaded Forshire's BfME-version. No I got another problem: Afaik this version doesn't contain the campaign. But I love to play it for a change from time to time. Do you know a more simple way how to keep the original BfME version available before installing Forshire's version (it demands to deinstall the existing BfME during its installation) beside of the solution shown in the video @ Forshire's blog?

Two are better than one: Thank you for your patience! Without you I would have already surrendered for ages tryin' to reactivate playing BfME online.

PS: There's no 'Error 2755' so far when tryin' to install Forshire's BfME. Weird....