Spring RTS Engine

Dell Inspiron 545S
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93 GHz
6GB ram

I'm stumped, and frustrated. I've dumped several hours into trying to make this thing work. I usually play singleplayer using the lobby, but something stopped working recently, and it had been nagging me to update the lobby and engine, so I did. After several failed attempts trying to make that work, I scrapped it, uninstalled everything, reinstalled the latest/greatest, and pretty much only the spring test works.

Spring Test works just dandy, and I've been playing Spring for months on this computer. Love it.

And now... nothing but frustration.

At the bottom of the Spring Lobby window, it says "SpringLobby 0.63 msw" and in the lower right corner "ping:179ms"

The client area of the window is just white. Nothing in there.

I went in and granted permissions (all) on the spring folder to this user, and I've tried all sorts of Run As Administrator shenanigans.

Please advise! Daddy needs his fix!

Edit: The lobby doesn't really appear to connect either. I really can't tell what it's doing.

find springlobby.conf in your user directory, delete it. should help.

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Edit: The lobby doesn't really appear to connect either. I really can't tell what it's doing.

don't login using SD at the same time ...

Or switch to TASclient.

Deleting the .conf file did it! I never would have guessed that one. Win7 found it for me relatively quickly.

As for the last two suggestions, I'm not entirely sure what they mean.

What is "SD"
What is "TASCLIENT" -this seems to mean "Total Anihilation S(erver?) Client ??

Anyway, THANKS imbaczek!

SD = SpringDownloader, a System Tray program that functions as Springs peer-to-peer file hosting system, plus also hosts mods that distribute files through the "rapid" incremental-update system. It also is gradually getting simple lobby features and quickmatching, but those features are new and experimental.

TASClient = TA Spring Client, the original Lobby Client for the Spring project, before SpringLobby was implemented. More mature and plays nicer with SpringDownloader, but is not cross-platform and has a different featureset.

can you see the top menu of SL ?