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Sep 4^th, 2004 at 4:00pm

russ687 Offline
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A quick question if any of you have experienced it and have figured out how to fix it:

Via the Zone, after connecting to a session, the game opens up like normal, then it says loading scenery, textures, etc., and then finally comes to rest at a frozen picture/screen (in my case its that of being in a Cessna cockpit looking down a runway).

Is there a solution to this problem? For the most part joining a game isn't the weird part, but after FS2004 has already loaded and a frozen screen comes up. At that point, sometimes I have to reboot.

Any recommendations are welcome! To some of you who may ask, I have the following system performance:

P4 at 2.2ghz, 256mb RAM, XP, 56.6 modem, basic 3d card

So as noted above, the game does work right on my PC, but for some reason not with multiplayer.

Thanks

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Reply #1 - Sep 4^th, 2004 at 5:51pm

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russ,

Check if your firewall ports are opened correctly... or your schiools if you are using a school system...or your business... and so on. See other posts in this forum about ports.

Also ....... if you are using dailup and it is not a clean connection...... it can cause all sorts of weird stuff.

best,

.................john

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Reply #2 - Sep 4^th, 2004 at 8:06pm

russ687 Offline
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Firewall ports: I make sure that the firewall is off when doing multiplay, but there may be something else missing.

I am using a personal computer.

I will check the ports, but a little more info about them would be nice.

Finally, with dial-up, a clean connection would obviously be improtant, but is there a way to ensure a good connection?

Thanks for the promt reply.

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Reply #3 - Sep 4^th, 2004 at 11:19pm

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Russ,

Sorry I missed the number of posts on my first reply...... welcome to SimV.

Check the "Multiplayer made simple" thread at the top of this forum... and check my other recent post here on how and WHICH ports need to be open.

Do some diagnostics with your ISP about your line signal... they can tell you how clean your connection is. Also there are a number of "ISP speed tests" on the net...... test and see how fast you are actually connecting. My old "56K" connection mainly was more like 30K. I kept getting disconnected when flying on line all the time. And I have found fs2004 really screws up when it loses the connection and is trying to "run".

Also .... particularly with the Zone..... watch the latencies. If the session you are connecting to has lots of high latencies... that can cause real problems with connecting to it.

Get the FSHostSpy program and look at all the FSHost flight servers on the net that are active. Try to connect to a fast FSHost session (something below 100ms) and see if that helps. When you connect in the fs2004 multiplayer screen.... look at the speed on the "ping".
If it does...... welcome to "The Zone". I had nothing but trouble trying to make fs2002 or fs2004 work on "The Zone".

Hope these thoughts help.

best,

...................john

PS: Just did my first live ATC flight online tonight........ IFR from KMIA (Miami) to KJAX (Jacksonville). Yup...... in hurricane weather. I literally blew a right tire on the landing (good model BaE 146-200) but managed to skid it off the runway more or less intact. Wink

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