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...

[Muzer]

There are 2 definitions of lower:
Lower when laid out in a list:
A (high)
B (middle)
C (low)

And lower alphabetically:

A (low)
B (middle)
C (high)

[bonz]

Originally Posted by Muzer

There are 2 definitions of lower:
Lower when laid out in a list:
A (high)
B (middle)
C (low)

And lower alphabetically:

A (low)
B (middle)
C (high)

problem is, you can shuffle the entries in a list and stuff on top of the list would be still be higher!

try removing a drive in your windows settings!
after the next reboot you'll see it re-sorted! it's not simply a list!

look -->here too!
you'll find some info, that D:\ is indeed lower than E:\

windows assigns the drive letters according to their IDE path they have in bios, afaik!

[Flamie]

he's right tho, I did mean D:\ :P edits and fixes

[goodguy23]

Can you help me?

Nobody can join my internet game after I create it.

Do you know what the problem is.

[Flamie]

Originally Posted by goodguy23

Can you help me?

Nobody can join my internet game after I create it.

Do you know what the problem is.

-You can never connect to games, or people connect to you?
Make sure your windows XP firewall is turned off to be able to join games, to be able to host, I recommend ready the router patch at www.spadger.uk.ro

[elaernst]

you have litterally saved my life!
thanks!!!

[Muzer]

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

[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.

[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).

[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.

[KRD]

Okay, I got it all working now thanks to your ideas, Marc. Switched my DVD+RW drive to E:\ and made D:\ a virtual drive. W2 runs flawlessly other than the fact that the Yorkshire server suffered another blow. [My bet that it's cleaning ladies tripping over the cables is still on.]

The trick in making it work was installing the correct version of the unofficial WP patch [attached below] and only enabling the less agressive of the options.

[Flamie]

lol yes of course, some of the options make w2 crash, I'd stick to:
-enable ascii names
-enable the extended weapon editor and option editor.
-Fix ninja rope glitches
-Disable nuke
-set your resolution.

Thats about it if I remember right.... hmm krd on w2... Might have to fetch my CD now ;O


edit: I edited my 1st post, adding some information ;[

[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