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Thanks for the reply, Merlin, and for keeping an eye on things. My internet isn't the best, living out of a van and all, but I'll try switching over to my house's WiFi next time I see Timeouts on HLSW just to check if that clears things up. I won't have the house WiFi available much longer, so we'll see if I can even catch it. As of the time I'm writing this, HLSW this morning is showing all servers looking normal. But here's the thing: With the Sniper server on 149.56.xxx.xxx and all the rest on 74.91.xxx.xxx, I absolutely do believe it's a server/host issue when the three on the latter go Timeout, while the former looks and acts normal. I don't see this as an HLSW issue at all. Anyway, I don't need to update my HLSW since it's working fine. I can go into the Sniper server without a problem at all. For that matter, I can go into all 4 servers as long as HLSW doesn't show them in Timeout. If you're saying that the Sniper server should also be found on the 74.91.xxx.xxx IP then why is there a Sniper server responding at 149.91.xxx.xxx? The map before Balystock was that snowy map that has a grave yard back in one corner, and buildings people like to snipe out of the windows from, and roofs you can get up on, but I don't remember its name. Sorry. I know that even that information isn't necessarily relevant since the server does player size based rotations. Day before last, I think we may have been coming out of another map when it borked out. Have a good day.

2nd day in a row that DM3 has crashed late afternoon switching to map Balystock. And why is it that HLSW has frequently been showing our servers offline when, in fact, they aren't? I prefer to check the servers and enter through HLSW when I find there are people in there playing. Today, all servers but the Sniper server are showing "Timeout" yet (before DM3 crashed again), I could get into the game through the game itself just fine. The Sniper server appears to be at a completely different IP, so I can only suspect it's a server configuration issue on 74.91.xxx.xxx. Is anyone putting in support tickets with this host and getting some support from them?

Oops, I mistakenly ghosted this thread It was better, although I know there's a whole new rotation in by now. Did you figure out the culprit map? There was speculation that it was the map after those I mentioned that were actually causing the hang.

Second afternoon in a row I've gone in there and found it stuck. What's up with that? Today it's mp_villa. Yesterday it was mp_ddd_wet.

Yo.

Hmm. Now mp_frucanal is doing it.

To my knowledge so far, this is the only map I'm having a problem with. I played this map on my old computer, which I just copied everything over from. But after not playing for a few years, this is a new map since then for me. I will check this map on my old computer, maybe try copying it over again, otherwise I guess I'll just have to sit this map out whenever it comes around. Once I get on the road, I'm not sure how much I will be able to play anyway. Don't think this game requires much bandwidth, and I don't think my ping will be off-scale high, but in all likelihood I'd be playing over a mobile connection. Maybe Starlink. Still thinking that one through...

This is what I got:

I cannot play this map. When it loads, I get the map's intro screen, but then I get an unhandled exception. This happens EVERY time. I have deleted and let the server re-download the map for me. No joy. I have rebooted and rejoined the server while the map is still running. No joy. There's something wrong with that map. Suggest an admin back up their current version and download the version on the redirect to test. Or if you have a copy you are able to play with, check files on yours vs the redirect, and/or just copy yours up. Thanks!

It does have it, and it did install it.

Yes, the server list shows up. All XI servers are listed. Someone told me recently in-game when I asked if anyone was on the Steam edition and if they had any problems, I was told, no problems, it installed and worked fine and was already patched. Not sure if that's really true or not, and I have not installed any patches myself. One person said to only install patches up to 7 and not do 8 otherwise the XI servers would not work. Odd since the other person said it was pre-patched (presumably including 8 ) and worked on our servers. I have run an integrity check and it says, "All 333 files successfully validated".

I did find the place to enter a CD Key in the multiplayer settings. It accepted my key as valid, but still no luck creating any profile. Good point on the firewall, but I can see the XI servers (and everyone else's) on the server list, so I think it's getting through okay. I think I did try to run the exe as admin at one point thinking it might need elevated privileges to get everything established.

Hi Rob, Yeah, I know all about transferring profiles. In fact, I installed the game from Steam, then before even starting it and before the game had even created the Activision folder in AppData, I copied that entire folder structure over from the old machine. Other than noticing that the hardware had changed (and just say no to the reset it suggests on launch), I expected it to come up fully intact and right where I left off. Instead the game came up in 720 resolution and wanted me to create an online profile. At first, I thought maybe the Steam version did things differently, so I renamed the Activision folder I copied over and restarted the game to let it create its own. It did, so I know it's still the same old game, but absolutely nothing I've tried has worked to allow me to create even a scratch profile name. I even found the place to enter a CD Key, which I still have, and it accepted it as valid, but just refuses to let me create ANY profile.