Solution to most w2 problems.

[Flamie]

Installation problems:
Getting a 16-bit SubSystem error, or a video card error, and running on XP?
Download http://www.laene.nl/fb/fixingstuphp.zip and run it once it should fix the problem.


Problems starting frontend:
Getting a "CD ERROR: NO AUDIO" error?
Make sure you installed your game with the CD being put in the lowest CD drive, (if you have E:\ and D:\, install and run it from D:\)
If you are trying to run the game from an ISO, go to your control panel, administrative tools, Computer Management, and from there click on "disk management" on the right, and make sure the letter of your virtual drive is the lowest, if not, make it so by right clicking it -> Change Letter Path.

Problems in frontend:
Your teams are never here, instead you have 1 random team that you never created?
I've had this problem several times, and I'm fairly sure it was due to the fact I was using a shortcut to start the game.

Online:
When you join a game, the door is always closed?
Make sure you have the latest directx from www.microsoft.com (currently 9.0c)
If for some reason you are unable to update, then read the DirectX 9 patch information on http://www.spadger.uk.ro

You can never connect to games, or people connect to you?
First of all, Make sure your windows XP firewall is turned off (or properly configured to NOT block neither frontend.exe nor worms2.exe)
If you are using a router, I recommend reading how to use the router patch at www.spadger.uk.ro. It has worked for everyone so far.

starting a game:
Do you get a Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime library error?
Right click your frontend.exe, check its properties, look at the version tab, it should say either 1.0.1.7 or 1.0.1.5, if it doesnt, get the patch from http://w2.team17.com
If the version is correct, make sure you are running the game from its root directory (not using any shortcuts) and running frontend.exe, not worms2.exe.

I'll be adding more to these when I can think of them, but thats most of the problems people get. Hopefully this will help.

[Muzer]

Originally Posted by Flamie

-Getting a "CD ERROR: NO AUDIO" error?
Make sure you installed your game with the CD being put in the lowest CD drive, (if you have E:\ and D:\, install and run it from E:\)

Actually, it is the drive you have the sound card connected to. On mine, it is actually D:\, not E:\ that has the sound card. Actually, IIRC, I read somewhere official (I think it's the readme) that the majority of computer's sound cards are connected to the 1st drive!


Also, on mine, I didn't get an error, It just didn't play any music.

[Spadger]

Originally Posted by Muzer

Actually, it is the drive you have the sound card connected to. On mine, it is actually D:\, not E:\ that has the sound card. Actually, IIRC, I read somewhere official (I think it's the readme) that the majority of computer's sound cards are connected to the 1st drive!


Also, on mine, I didn't get an error, It just didn't play any music.

lol, it almost sounds like you are talking about a completely different error.

[bonz]

Originally Posted by Flamie

if you have E:\ and D:\, install and run it from E:\

ehrm...
D:\ is lower than E:\

[yappydog]

Originally Posted by bonz

ehrm...
D:\ is lower than E:\

Lower down the alphabet? Back a decade or two to school...
A
B
C
D
E

Come on - you're a senior - you should know these things by now!

[bonz]

the letters ABCDE are like 12345 in this case!
and 4<5!
so... D<E!

[yappydog]

Originally Posted by bonz

the letters ABCDE are like 12345 in this case!
and 4<5!
so... D<E!

Look at your post - "ABCDE are like 12345": Letters are LIKE numbers, but they're not ACTUALLY numbers. Anyway, 4 is before 5 as you count forwards, and D is before E. Unless you read the alphabet backwards.

I'm correct. End of discussion. Now back to fixing W2...

[bonz]

Originally Posted by yappydog

Look at your post - "ABCDE are like 12345": Letters are LIKE numbers, but they're not ACTUALLY numbers. Anyway, 4 is before 5 as you count forwards, and D is before E. Unless you read the alphabet backwards.

I'm correct. End of discussion. Now back to fixing W2...

what?
you count up to something, not down to something!
so d is lower than e, as 4 is lower than 5!

why do you think the a:\ drive is lited at the top in windows?
why do you think the A column in excel is listed on the far left (the first) followed by the AA column after 26 columns?
why do you think in the hexdecimal system the A, B, C, D, E & F are used after the numbers 1-9?
why, oh why?

D:\ IS lower than E:\!
sorry...

[elaernst]

you have litterally saved my life!
thanks!!!

[Muzer]

Soryy to ressurect this thread, but I think it should be stickyed.

[Flamie]

Originally Posted by Muzer

Soryy to ressurect this thread, but I think it should be stickyed.

You're right, do you know who to PM to get this done?

edit:
I edited my 1st post, added a couple of things and made it easier to read.

[bonz]

Originally Posted by Flamie

You're right, do you know who to PM to get this done?

either one of the user mods (andrew taylor, thomasp) or the webmaster (sel).

[Ryla]

Originally Posted by Flamie

Online:
-When you join a game, the door is always closed?
Make sure you have the latest directx from www.microsoft.com (currently 9.0c)

I have no firewall and am running Directx 9.0c and I still have connection problems with Worms2.

Any suggestions?

[Muzer]

do you have a router (a little box that supplies an internet connection to more than one computer)?

[Flamie]

Sorry guys, I dont check these forums too often, if anyone has problems with their w2, just add me on MSN (please_answer_fast@hotmail.com) and I'll glady help you.

[skalphunte]

Well done Flamie
Thank you ........ you are right I couldnt have extracted correctly first time .
Very grateful for your soloution. Now I can play my fav.
Thanks again
Glyn

[Flamie]

anytime

[KRD]

So then you can't run W2 from an image? I've specifically created virtual drive A:\ and instaled the game from it to make sure no-one says I didn't do it from the lowest drive, only to get the CD error. Meh.

Edit: Funnily enough, I get the error even when installing [and running] from the only DVD-ROM drive the laptop has. No W2 for bad bad me.

[Flamie]

i use an image to run the game krd.
Just create a virtual drive, then thru your admin options change your driver path so the created one is the lowest ;]

[MrBunsy]

Originally Posted by KRD

So then you can't run W2 from an image? I've specifically created virtual drive A:\ and instaled the game from it to make sure no-one says I didn't do it from the lowest drive, only to get the CD error. Meh.

Edit: Funnily enough, I get the error even when installing [and running] from the only DVD-ROM drive the laptop has. No W2 for bad bad me.

I wouldn't use A: for emulating a CD! A and B are by defualt reserved for floppies, I think it's probably still built into even windows XP.

[KRD]

Nah, I tried with other images, A:\ and B:\ seem to work flawlessly on XP SP2.

Anyhow, I god rid of A:\ and B:\ now, got the game to run off the CD, which isn't too bad aside from the laptop trembling and heating up like mad.

But after patching it [frontend.exe was version 107 off the CD] with the WP patch version 40, every single game I join or host simply desynchronises the moment it switches from frontend to gameplay. No idea why and, with a few exceptions who tried to help but failed, the people on the server aren't of much help either.

I figured it could be one of the firewalls, but the same happens even with both and each seperately turned off.

Marc: I played around with the idea of switching the DVD+RW drive to E:\ and making D:\ a virtual drive, but VirtualCD has issues with itself and keeps reporting an error of some kind. I'll try to make the game work from the disc for now. oOoO;

Update: The near-success has made me optimistic enough to reinstall the game and patch it with the 40 patch. Big mistake, as I now get the default Windows error-reporting window the second Frontend.exe should start.

[Flamie]

I have received quite a few emails saying spadger's site is down.
Dont worry guys, Spadger confirmed it would be back up, so give it some time =)
If you're too impatient and cant wait, I suggest you go to www.igl.net/worms2r and ask someone in the forums there for the files, as most of them have them. I'll reply here when the site goes back up.

[Flamie]

Spadger's website is back up.
http://www.spadger.uk.ro

[Spadger]

i didnt get 1 email, not a single one! lmao
yeah my site's back up, & i'm gonna make it a little better over the next few months. check back soon!

[KRD]

Spadger, you're back to actively playing W2?

[Phyxsium]

Ive got a problem....with network games...
me and my friend are trying to play...we tried both internet games and using Hamachi(it simulates a LAN over an internet connection, same thing as we were in the same network).
we go to a room (both lan and internet), we can see each other, then i create the game, he enters, normally, then i put the options, weps, maps and stuff, so i start the game, the 'searching' window opens, i find him, he finds me, then we enter the game, when we enter the game, the enemy has "given up" due to a network problem.

the problem isnt the program hamachi, cuz we played Warcraft3 using it, and the same problem ocurrs using internet and the lan option(cant use ipx, so we use tcp).

what could be that? =(

HEEELP T_T

[hubejea]

I don't know if any of the described problems are the same as mine. When I install worms 2, it works fine and great. After I apply the 1.5 patch, frontend crashes when I try and start a game.

At first I figured I applied the wrong patch, so I tried a few different ones: English, German, and American. Besides language, is there anything that actually differs between these patches? If so, how can I know which version I need?

If this isn't a patch problem, does anyone have an ideas what the issue is? Any help is much appreciated.

[Despise]

Originally Posted by Phyxsium

Ive got a problem....with network games...
me and my friend are trying to play...we tried both internet games and using Hamachi(it simulates a LAN over an internet connection, same thing as we were in the same network).
we go to a room (both lan and internet), we can see each other, then i create the game, he enters, normally, then i put the options, weps, maps and stuff, so i start the game, the 'searching' window opens, i find him, he finds me, then we enter the game, when we enter the game, the enemy has "given up" due to a network problem.

the problem isnt the program hamachi, cuz we played Warcraft3 using it, and the same problem ocurrs using internet and the lan option(cant use ipx, so we use tcp).

what could be that? =(

HEEELP T_T

(old post but) I thought Id quote this as this is the problem im having. For tat matter has anyone played it online without a router? or even got to playing it online?

Ive been trying to solve the problem with "Fabio" and we got as far as connecting with eachother, id host a game, he would join the game, Id then launch the game to actually start playing it then a countdown window pops up saying looking/locating connection with Fabio's name in red meaning its lost connection (cant remember exactly what it said now)


We tried half a dozen stuff BUT without comparing and setting up our computers the same. Apart from that, as a test I opened DMZ (all ports) on my ip through the router and allowed all on my firewall (using sygate 5.5). Fabio on the other hand did the same with his firewall but said he couldnt open up his router because he doesnt have control over it - so the problem may of been there. To connect to each other we used hamachi connecting over internet tab on worms using team17 server and fabio could join the game i created, id launch the game and after 2mins countdown loss of connection, game would load but fabio drops out straight away (i presume its lost connection due to the long countdown, our connections arnt that slow)

Now Im willing to spend sometime going over everything, comparing everything so we have the same configuration and go over every nook and cranny to see if we can get this game to work online.
Does anyone want volunteer?

[Flamie]

Oi spagder 8)

[Spadger]

yeah i'm back, actively playing worms2 again, & we're about to take it to the next level. stay tuned for big announcements.