Kiwi06 Report post Posted March 25, 2009 The program works fine and runs properly up until I connect to the server. It says I can't connect to the server I've uninstalled, reinstalled, rereinstalled and its still not working. I can view the players online page. I have all firewalls disabled for Eternal Lands. I have to admit though that I'm not that clever when it comes to ports and the like. I've read there is a problem with port 2000 and I've tried my best to open it or whatever but I really have no Idea what I'm doing. I've had this problem for about 3 months now and I can't stand being away from my EL Please halp! -Kiwi Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gampa Report post Posted March 25, 2009 Contact your ISP and ask them if they're blocking port 2000. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kiwi06 Report post Posted March 26, 2009 I talked to my ISP they said they don't block anything. I do think they are even more stupid than I am. I went to my ISP page and disabled the firewall but to no avail. EL still won't work for me. What is the problem? Please help :\ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The_Piper Report post Posted March 26, 2009 Try this: Open a DOS box (Start button -> execute -> "cmd"), then type there "telnet the-green-leaf.de 2000" and press Enter. What do you see? At least some lines of text or just a black screen? If its just a black screen, your problem is port 2000 somehow. (that was trying to connect to a MUD server at port 2000 on a different server in a different country where the EL game server is hosted) Something is blocking it. Your ISP, your anti-virus tool, your firewall, your router or whatever. Piper Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kiwi06 Report post Posted March 26, 2009 (edited) I did this and it worked. So I guess the problem is not port 2000. What other reason would it not be working? I've disabled my ISPs firewall, my router's firewall, my pc firewall, my antivirus wasn't working right a long time ago so I deleted that...Its just downright confusing. Thanks for all your help and suggestions but EL is still not working for me. Still needing help on the diagnosis. Edited March 26, 2009 by Kiwi06 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mrfancypants Report post Posted March 26, 2009 can you connect the pk server? i can connect there but not main. we may have the same problem Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kiwi06 Report post Posted March 26, 2009 (edited) I don't have an account on the pk server. I've tried logging into the test server and the same thing happens. Heres what it says at the beginning, does anything look wrong? Window size adjusted to 1018x706 GL_ARB_multitexture extension found, using it. GL_ARB_texture_env_combine extension found, using it. GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array extension found, using it. GL_ARB_point_sprite extension found, using it. GL_ARB_texture_compression extension found, using it. GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc extension found, using it. GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap extension found, using it. GL_ARB_shadow extension found, using it. GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object extension found, using it. GL_EXT_framebuffer_object extension found, using it. GL_EXT_draw_range_elements extension found, using it. Couldn't find the GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two extension, not using it... GL_ARB_fragment_program extension found, using it. GL_ARB_vertex_program extension found, using it. GL_ARB_fragment_shader extension found, using it. GL_ARB_vertex_shader extension found, using it. GL_ARB_shader_objects extension found, using it. GL_ARB_shading_language_100 extension found, using it. GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat extension found, NOT using it... GL_ARB_texture_rectangle extension found, NOT using it... GL_EXT_fog_coord extension found, NOT using it... Couldn't find the GL_ATI_texture_compression_3dc extension, not using it... Couldn't find the GL_EXT_texture_compression_latc extension, not using it... Using vertex program for actor animation. Error opening sound configuration file The location of the data files in use is c:\Program Files\Eternal Lands/ Your personal settings and logs will be saved in C:\Documents and Settings\****************************************************** Connecting to Server... Can't connect to server Press any key to try again. Press Alt-x to close the game Edited March 26, 2009 by Kiwi06 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kiwi06 Report post Posted March 26, 2009 Update: I found on another thread an idea where you can type into the command promt 'telnet game.eternal-lands.com 2000'. I did this and it did the whole "Hi, and welcome to Eternal Lands!" thing. I guess this means that it is definitely not the port 2000 problem. So what could it be? I've uninstalled and reinstalled again and it still does the same thing. Please help Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigkav Report post Posted March 26, 2009 Try remove your eternal lands folder in My documents; cut and paste it someone other then in My Documents, then reload EL. you will have to set up ur settings again, if it doesn't work try downloading the EL-CVS http://cvs.labby.co.uk/ If that doesn't work idk what will. these aren't very common methods. but like you said you've tried alot of things, one of these could do it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gampa Report post Posted March 26, 2009 Could you post the content of the servers.lst file, please? It's located in the Eternal Lands folder in your My Documents folder in Windows. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
L. Vmbrius Report post Posted March 26, 2009 Try Linux Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kiwi06 Report post Posted March 26, 2009 Try Linux Lol I've tried other OS but the truth is I grew up on windows so Its about impossible to get used to anything else Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kiwi06 Report post Posted March 26, 2009 (edited) Could you post the content of the servers.lst file, please? It's located in the Eternal Lands folder in your My Documents folder in Windows. I don't see this file :s I think I found it # server.lst - Server list configuration file # # Note: Any amount of whitespace is allowed and # marks a comment from that point until # the end of the line # # ID Config Dir Address Port Description (to be used for server selection window) main main game.eternal-lands.com 2000 Main game server pk pk game.eternal-lands.com 2002 PK game server test test game.eternal-lands.com 2001 Test server lrnr-main main proxy1.other-life.com 443 Learner's redirection service for the Main game server is that it? Edited March 26, 2009 by Kiwi06 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gampa Report post Posted March 26, 2009 Update: I found on another thread an idea where you can type into the command promt 'telnet game.eternal-lands.com 2000'. I did this and it did the whole "Hi, and welcome to Eternal Lands!" thing. I guess this means that it is definitely not the port 2000 problem. So what could it be? I've uninstalled and reinstalled again and it still does the same thing. Please help Hmm, since this worked and your servers.lst file looks fine, I'm out of ideas. Sorry :S Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LabRat Report post Posted March 26, 2009 Have you firewalled EL from connecting to the internet? If you are running a firewall on your PC disable it. Believe it or not they don't actually do anything useful (unless you class hogging your resources and stopping you doing what you yourself want to do as useful) and are an abomination purely to separate a novice user and his cash. Even the free ones Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kiwi06 Report post Posted March 26, 2009 Have you firewalled EL from connecting to the internet? If you are running a firewall on your PC disable it. Believe it or not they don't actually do anything useful (unless you class hogging your resources and stopping you doing what you yourself want to do as useful) and are an abomination purely to separate a novice user and his cash. Even the free ones Yes I've turned off every firewall I could find (4 total) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The_Piper Report post Posted March 26, 2009 Do you run any anti virus tool which, for any unknown reason, blocks el.exe? Do you run norton antivirus? This is known for analyzing the data stream from the client to the server and after a few seconds or minutes, falsely guess from that data stream, that EL is a virus phoning home and shutting down the connection. Piper Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kiwi06 Report post Posted March 26, 2009 I have AVG (the free version) It says its Anti Virus and AntiSpyware are outdated and are disabled I figured it its not working then it can't block anything Should I just delete it? :\ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kiwi06 Report post Posted March 27, 2009 I am ONLINE! Woot! The problem was indeed a firewall. I have AOL (America Online) and I didn't know it had its own firewall :\ It must have also been the reason why I couldn't connect to Internet explorer. Thanks for all your help and suggestions Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sywren Report post Posted March 27, 2009 (edited) I have AVG (the free version) It says its Anti Virus and AntiSpyware are outdated and are disabled I figured it its not working then it can't block anything Should I just delete it? :\ I knew it! My boyfriend did the same thing. Some time after he installed it, he downloaded the Windows Service Pack 3 and suddenly we couldn't connect to anything. I posted here and we still haven't fixed this issue on his laptop. Internet Explorer is the only browser we can use. We had to delete Firefox because it stopped working, too. It seems that the only thing that is different is that when I try to run "telnet game.eternal-lands.com 2000" in the DOS window, I get a message that it isn't recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file. We deleted AVG and we still can't connect to anything. Edited March 27, 2009 by sywren Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kiwi06 Report post Posted March 27, 2009 Ahhh. Well my problem had to do with AOL Firewall, but it seems if you can't connect the Telnet way then its the port 2000 thing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
