[conquest] Can't start windows client!

[Jon Trulson]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Ingo Pussar wrote:

> Hi there,
> I have trouble using the precompiled binary on a Windows XP machine, but
> starting it using wine does work wonderful.
> I did setup both variables according to INSTALL.TXT.
> Starting the game results in opening a window to which nothing is drawn.
> Debug output says "conquest.radscan.com: no such host". This is odd,
> because the computer is perfectly connected to the network and "ping
> conquest.radscan.com" also works.
>

   How... odd.

> I thought this could be a problem with the windows or router firewall
> blocking UDP, but adding -u option doesn't help.
>

   Yeah, that would not make a diff - I wonder if there is something
   subtly different in host lookups... At least on my VBox VM's, I have
   not seen this problem.

   What if you specify the metaserver IP directly on the cmd line,
   like:

   conquestgl -M 216.160.163.4

   Does it work?  Can you login to one of the servers?

> I attached the debug output.
>

   Thanks - that's *always* useful :)


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