Spring RTS Engine

Hi there,
I'm trying to get back to Spring after a long while, but something just doesn't work right.

I downloaded the windows installer and installed the game. Used the Spring Lobby shortcut from the desktop, which asked me if I want to update the lobby, I agreed.

Now the lobby is running, and I connected to the Official Server with my old username (same one as I use for this forum, which is also old).
At least, I think I connected... because while I get the
" ** Server ** Connected to Official server. "
messege and all that, none of the char rooms open up.
Writing /join main also doesn't help.

I can't seem to join games even if I have the map and the mode (latest BA mode).

I tried starting a solo game, and while it worked the graphics were wrong. The ground appeared fine but the commander and a solar station I built seemed like they don't have their skins for some reason (appeared grey).

What is going on, and how to I fix it? I looked for an updated instructions on the site but couldn't find any...

My system's specs are:
i5 750
4GB memory
HD 5770 ATI
Windows 7

I'll appriciate any help

/j #main

As far as the rest, are you using ati?

Yes I'm using ATI.
And the channel problem is not in the /join #main problem.
The lobby is set to join main automatically, and when I try to look at the channel list it shows nothing.


Hmm... correction, that's how it was this afternoon.
Tryied to join right now, and indeed I was automatically connected to main.

I don't have time to try and join a multiplayer game now, but graphics are still bad in singleplayer.

That bad gfx is because of your ATI card. Try another driver. 10.4 and possibly the very latest beta version should fix it.

Ok, updating the drivers indeed fixed the graphics problems.

But I'm still having problems with the lobby.
I forwarded port 8452 but that doesn't seem to help.
I suspect I'm getting VERY bad ping time with the channel.

How can I change that, and how can I make it better?
I've played Spring before so I know my connection should be able to handle this!
(Also, seems to be fine with backup server 2...)

What is the lobby's IP?

UAF wrote: I don't have time to try and join a multiplayer game now, but graphics are still bad in singleplayer.

Type /channels in the chat

And of course *A still looks like shit. If you want to play something that looks good, try Gundam RTS, Evolution RTS, Spring 1944, Cursed, or Complete Annihilation.

EvoRTS ingame screenshot:

The graphics problems are solved.
But I have connection problems.
Perhaps I need to open a prot for the lobby to work well?
And I'd like to have the lobby's ip or some other way to test my ping with it, since I suspect the problem is related to it.

Is there an alternate rout to reach the main server in order to join games?

Open up a command prompt or terminal window (I'm just gonna assume you're running windows)

type

ping www.springrts.com

And whatever ip address it displays is the ip of the server.

Thanks.
Well, I pinged the server, and I get a rather good ping of ~90ms.

So the problem is somewhere else.
On the other hand both SpringLobby and springdownloader share the problem.
I tried looking for the good old tasclient, but couldn't find it. (That's what I used last time I played Spring).

Are there other clients out there?

Ping != lobby connection.

Any sort of crap can interfere with your network. Try on another PC using different ISP.

That's true licho, but ping is essential for determining round trip time. If it takes a full second or more to receive a response from the server, well it's obvious that' you're going to have issues.

Actually its never 100%, ICMP can be treated differently. I have seen routes which on purpose delay ICMP packets resulting in huge ping/packetloss while other types of packets were arriving on time and without any problems.