Author Topic: Can't Host/Start New Internet/Lan Game  (Read 713 times)

Legacy_AntonGrey

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Can't Host/Start New Internet/Lan Game
« on: November 10, 2014, 01:49:51 am »


               
I've been having this problem since I recently installed Neverwinter Nights again. Whenever I try to start a game (using the Start New Internet/LAN Game), I can't get past the place where you choose a module to load. After choosing the module to load, when trying to host a game, I get the following message: 

 

Attempting to find server. 

Connection to server has failed. 

Server is not responding (timed out). 

 

I can still join persistent words or games hosted by other people. Also, the function above works normally on another laptop in my network, under the same router and everything (The Start New Internet/LAN game works perfectly fine on that laptop.) 

 

Turning off all my firewalls, does nothing to help with the issue. Neither has port forwarding. Anyone know what I should do and/or what might be up with this? (This isn't a problem of people being unable to connect to me like I have read about in other posts. I can't even start the Internet/LAN Game to begin with. Any help would be appreciated. 

 

If it helps, I use Windows 7. On another note, I can create a joinable game by nwserver.exe. This problem only occurs under the specific circumstances explained above.


               
               

               
            

Legacy_icywind1980

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Can't Host/Start New Internet/Lan Game
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2014, 05:43:52 pm »


               

Just a shot in the dark, but is your UAC turned off? Also are you running nwn.exe as an admin? I would also suggest trying to load it through nwnmain.exe instead. That worked so much better for me on win 7 and win 8.



               
               

               
            

Legacy_AntonGrey

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Can't Host/Start New Internet/Lan Game
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2014, 10:30:37 pm »


               

I tried turning UAC off, it didn't work. I am using nwmain.exe as an admin with the windows XP SP3 backwards compatibility. Everything works just fine except starting a game by the "Start New Internet/LAN Game" option right after logging into multiplayer. The nwserver.exe works just fine. I've pretty much tried everything I have seen on all the forums.