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"Failed to get message of the day!" error run... - 3/3/2007 11:18:42 AM

Waffen_88

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Well, since the single player campaign crashed I figured I'd try MMCC3, which sounds very cool.

The single player version of MMCC3 worked fine.

I installed the multiplayer mod, launched MMCC3 got the welcome message ("Welcome to MMCIII for Cross of Iron..."), chose a side and a name and then got to the connection screen.

Entered: 204.13.13.17 (as per the welcome message), port 2108 (I tried 2109 and 2110 as well), hit the connect button and I get this popup:

"Failed to get message of the day!"
java.io.EOFException:
null
java.io.EOFException
at java/io/DataInputStream.readByte
at CC3Message.compatibleMsgVersion
at CC3Message.prepToReceive
at CC3Message.getMOD
at ClientConnector.instGetMOD
at ClientConnector.getMOD
at UpdateThread.run

I then return to the connection screen.

I am running behind a hardware router but have disabled all my software firewalls. Any suggestions?

I must say I am disappointed with the Multiplayer support. It really seems as if CSO Simtek didn't update this stuff at all from the origional CC3 code, which was outdated at the time and didn't deal well with even simple network topology. It seems to me that an integrated and updated multiplayer engine would have been a high priority, but I'm sure there were tradeoffs to make.

Are there plans to update the code/MMCC3 integration to make it more, umm, usable? As it is you would have to really, really like this game (as I do) in order to put up with the headache of getting this thing going. I would like to pull some of my mainstream gamer friends into this, but they won't give something like this a second glance. A shame really.

Kevin

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RE: "Failed to get message of the day!" error... - 3/3/2007 12:22:51 PM

Waffen_88

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As a followup to my own post, I found more information on this subject in this thread:

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1380491&mpage=1&key=

It seems as if the problem here is running Windows 2000. I tried installing this on another machine running Win XP and it appears to work (unfortunately, this machine is at work, and I play from home).

So I suppose us 2000 users will either have to upgrade or wait until this problem is found.

Kevin

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RE: "Failed to get message of the day!" error... - 3/3/2007 1:07:58 PM

Andrew Williams

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I haven't been able to use MMCC3 with win2000 for 5 years.

Any other OS I've tried is fine...win95,98,Xp

< Message edited by schrecken -- 3/3/2007 1:23:13 PM >

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