harry I have got to say many thanks I am going to go through the manual before I decide to ask any questions
well here is my problem. I ran mtaserver.exe and it was running fine and even ran the server through the client. Also running fine. when I try to connect it stays for like 5 seconds and then says disconnect via timeout, I hosted without scrips and me and my gf played on it before so no problems there.
sorry about this third edit, but found the patch and seems to be working fine, thanks for the help