Connection Interrupted Problem: dreaded 999

[adamattrem]

Greetings,

Whenever I connect to any server, in few moments I get 'Connection Interrupted' message and lagometer shows 999. It doesn't matter if I'm connecting to server at 20 ping or 200 ping.

I didn't face this problems 2 weeks before. Suddenly it popped up. At first I thought that 'unlagged mod' or 'new game.qvm' was causing the problem. I'm sure that it's not the reason.

I use Win XP SP2. 512 MB ram.  
/rate 25000.

Hope that someone will help.

Regards,
Adam

[Superpie]

You've played Tremulous without issues before this, right?

[adamattrem]

Yes. I've faced no issues before.

I've tried changing settings (lowering graphics settings) and other settings mentioned in posts elsewhere. My problem still persists.

[Superpie]

Righto then, here's a few questions:
Do you have a firewall? If so what type?
Do you have multiple computers?
Do you use a router? If so what type? (Routers are not modems)
Do you have any experience with port forwarding?

[adamattrem]

Do you have a firewall? If so what type?

--> I use Look 'n' Stop personal firewall (software). Which I've been using for one year now. I'm sure that I've given access to 'Tremulous'.

Do you have multiple computers?

--> No.

Do you use a router? If so what type? (Routers are not modems)

--> No.

Do you have any experience with port forwarding?

--> Yes.


Add. Info. I've not changed any settings in my computer. (Since the days trem was working fine till today)

[Caveman]

Ehrm, just a hunch...

You did not update your windows any time recently?

[gareth]

reinstall trem, if that doesnt work then reinstall windows.

[adamattrem]

I've not updated Windows recently.
I've already reinstalled Tremulous few times without any gains.

[sleekslacker]

delete this folder :

C:\Documents and Settings\SleekSlackerz\Local Settings\Application Data\Tremulous\

if that doesn't work, it's your network (software / hardware) not Tremulous fault.

[Caveman]

delete this folder :

C:\Documents and Settings\SleekSlackerz\Local Settings\Application Data\Tremulous\

So you guys share the same user on the same computer?

[FooBar]

You might try running Tremulous from the command line to change the port; it might be that your ISP is blocking the Tremulous port for some reason.   Like this:

c:\> tremulous.exe +set net_port 42837

Or some random number in place of 42837.  However, I might be wrong.

Is this what you said?:

• You can run Tremulous
• You DO get a list of servers with reasonable pings from the master server
• When you try to connect to a server, you connect successfully
• once you're in the game, you time out and get disconnected?

If that's correct, then it sounds kind of weird and I'm not so sure it's a port problem.

[Caveman]

+set net_port 42837

Until now I was convinced that this was a server-only setting.
To my knowledge the player connect to this port to handshake and announce what port they use on the client-side. And the port on the client-side depends a) on the OS used and b) on the OS-"net layer".