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Post by josh »

i need help. i cant host. get a wintery cool error screen. i dont have a firewall or anything.
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Post by King »

What version of Giants are you running? Try reapplying the 1.4 patch.
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Post by josh »

v1.4
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Post by josh »

wow thx king. i can host again. its great. i cant thank u enough.
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lol?
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Post by josh »

awww man...im getting that error screen again. i just hosted a game without problem. now i cant host one. help plz
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plz help me :cry:
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Post by King »

This was posted a while ago, but may be relevant to your problem:

http://s88894241.onlinehome.us/forum/vi ... highlight=

Give that a whirl and see if it helps.
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Post by Xentek »

i used to get that on most singleplayer games, i had everything in graphics set to high, but when i turned to lowest (i have a crappy comp) it worked and the screen didnt show up. U can try that
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Post by Ammar »

This problem might be due to to you running the gforce 3 renderer. Can you tell us what reason it gives you for the wintry cool game error? Is the error about textures or what?
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Post by Zopharks »

What exactly is the error that is displayed on the screen? :|
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Post by josh »

i fixed it. the problem was that i was using bellsouth instead of aol. thanks for all of your help.
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Post by STEELIX »

....bellsouth...aol...??

are those internet providers or sommin'?
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