Win XP Issue?

[bobalobmitchell]

Hello!

Iv just installed Win XP and A-Tractor, i booted up a-tractor as normal and waited for the islands to ping... waited another ten mins, then gave up. It doesnt seem to ping the isles. Before i ran 98SE which listed the isles straight away. Iv checked my firewall which is allowing connections in and out. I pinged Apocolypse, Oceanic and Zoric using the command promps "ping" command. Both were succesful except Zoric which returned no reply. Iv mucked about with ip's, favorite island lists etc. still nothing.


Robert

[hedgehog]

are the islands just not pinging on the main dialog's island list? at times the file---->view all islands list can be helpful in finding islands that are actually online at that point in time.

the main dialog and the "update favorites list" menu aren't a full display of all islands available, merely a showing of islands that world owners have noticed and want first time players to see first before they just pop in to some random island that might not be "up to snuff" so-to-speak..though. all this will be much more streamlined and less confusing in the version to come.

zoric does appear to resolve a bit slowly for me this evening, but i do see a number of islands with players on both oceanic and zoric using the "view all islands" list.

the regular favorites lists aren't currently showing me much of anything, so that could be on prob.


welcome aboard btw :]

[Drewus]

Same thing here......

I go to File : Worlds List and each of the three worlds constantly say that they are "Checking" with no other change.

I go to File : View All Islands and all i get is a list of three worlds (Apocalipsworld, Oceanic and Zoric) with these little globe type symbols to the left of them, but nothing else appears. I double click on them and nothing happens. All buttons on the bottom, except Close are blanked out.

On the main screen when i load up the game it says that it's checking for Ip changes, that finishes and it says "Island List Update Complete". That is pretty much all of the activity that appears.

This is becoming incredibly frustrating

[bobalobmitchell]

It wasnt a WinXp issue after all Iv gone a bit mad and went from Win98SE to WinXp then back to Win98SE in one night, i was gonna stick with XP but then it started playing up when i networked it with my other 98SE pc + the A tractor issue + it didnt want to share a net connection over my network. Typical Microsoft, so iv stuck with 98 again, much more user friendly. I would never have gotten a tractor to work if it wasnt for zaroba's post :To those that have trouble listing and connecting to islands (cheers!) I was sitting here thinking it was my fire wall, then my TCP/IP settings for my network card, then my proxy.

Im away to scream and take a tantrum

Robert.