They weren't updating and that made me realise what the problem was. All working now!
The security permissions on the folder were not set correctly, I don't know why maybe because the folder already existed when I installed it over the top?
So I'm in the lobby, I can connect into a battleroom with other people but when the game starts or I join an already started game it loads spring.exe but just times out as if I have a firewall blocking the traffic. The infolog.txt file hasn't changed since the last time I successfully played which w...
I can connect into the lobby fine, join games no problem, it's just when the game launches it fails to connect to the server. So no error messages, just failing to connect. I immediately thought it must be a firewall issue but disabling both made no difference.
As topic, it used to work, I then installed Windows 7 and the latest Spring and now it just won't connect. Tried connecting with both the Windows firewall and router's firewall disabled and still no joy!