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couldn't help but note that you say "do you think if Rockstar thought that GTA3 was ready for multiplayer, they would have made it? They knew that GTA3 was too laggy to do it." they didn't drop it because it was too hard. they dropped MP because sony told them to... they thought it would undermine the sales of the PS2 version.

oooh... you've got it in the wrong directory... mta.exe and launcher.exe should be in the same folder as gta3.exe... right-click on your shortcut -> properties and see what the target is... if it leads to a directory different that GTA3's (the installer sometimes installs it into a new folder, inside of the GTA3 folder... For me, MTA was stuck in ...\Rockstar Games\GTA III\Desktop) if it's in the wrong folder, just re-install MTA to the right one...

Alright... after reading through every (yes, EVERY) post in the MTA forums, I have come to the conclusion: MTA seriously needs to say you're disconnected, when you're disconnected. Most problems are solved by disconnecting/reconnecting... but you're already disconnected if you're having to disconnect/reconnect. MTA says you're still connected, even when the data rate is frozen... Just a thing for 0.4... make sure MTA says you're disconnected when you are ________ srry if this message is a little cryptic... haven't slept in 30 hrs.

uh... huh. you don't seem to realize... MTA requires writing a brand-new net code, and reverse-engineering everything. Desert Combat was a LOT simpler in comparison to MTA. If you want to take the time to bother one of the DC creators, they will tell you MTA is far more difficult. Battlefield 1942 is a multiplayer game. It already has a solid netcode, connection system, physics, etc. Making comparisons to DC is just stupid. It is a completely different process to mod BF1942.

that's a big problem... the only fix I know of is to disconnect and reconnect... (leave GTA3 open), but you've aready tried it... Look at your 'data stream' thing.. or something like that, forget what it's called, and check to see if it's frozen at a number... if it is, disconnect, reconnect.... oh ya... do any messages appear saying: Connection found, ping received or does it just sit at 'waiting for request'? If it sits at 'waiting for request', then for some reason, you appear to be incapable of connecting to your own server

Are you talking about me?

I think only the uzi does anything in this version

try a different server... it should say something beyond 'waiting for request', otherwise you aren't fully connected. the error 10047 is just saying the server is down/you can't connect (I think that was it... so many error messages to remember). Different server or disconnect/reconnect.

disconnect and reconnect (leave GTA3 open) one more time... if that doesn't do it, then I'd say it's just a bug in MTA... a very odd bug...

People on the roof: supposed to be there... just ignore them The odd thing is the lack of people in the game with you... check the 'data stream', and see how many k/s it's taking... if it's frozen, then there's an error, and you have to reconnect... (DON'T close GTA3 when you reconnect) if reconnecting once or twice doesn't do it, try a different server.... Not sure what help I can give past that.

the runtime error this topic asked about: you couldn't connect to the server/the server went down. Try connecting again, or find a different server. Winsock is a part of windows that allows for networking using sockets... MTA networks with sockets. That's a generic error message that winsock is spewing out, saying that it could not connect to server/you got disconnected from the server

close 'nuff...

okay... that's very weird. are you running win98?...

ya, I think there's some serious bug, where even if no data is being transferred, MTA still says you're connected... the little light just stops blinking. so you have to pretend that you really ARE disconnected

btw, the dodo is on the road near your hideout on portland

actually, it says YOU'RE a mod...

Bug in GTA3. I think it has to do with WinXP... The bug happens even without MTA, just less often.

I try.... I just have no idea what the heck error 2 means

https://forum.multitheftauto.com/viewtopic.php?t=1157 hope that helps

About the health-only-dropping-to-800 thing... it's supposed to be like that... you really only have 100 health, but it says you have 900. they did this to avoid the game from doing the standard "wasted!" thing, and putting you in staunton... also, the colors would fade, and that messed stuff up...

ya, that might be a good idea... or just keep me away from the topic

it seems as though you're the only person with this problem check for patches from M$.... all I can think of....

actually... 3. Sony sucks, because they stopped rockstar from making MP!!!

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