Connection Timed Out on LAN Game Fixed

[[DooD]Heavyair]

i have been playing mta deathmatch with my two sons since dp1 and recently had to reformat their pcs

with a lot of help from LIL TOADY i got their serial numbers and that sorted but now one of their pcs keeps giving me connection timed out when trying to join my server

also all servers report unscanned in the server browser

i have seen a lot of other posts about the unscanned servers and have already dealt with that issue (forwarding ports and such )

but i cant understand why the quick connect times out

does anyone know if this is just a router issue or something with mta

any ideas would be appreciated

Edited May 13, 2008 by Guest

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are you connecting to the right lan ip? remember 'localhost' wont work on another computer

[[DooD]Heavyair]

im pretty sure i am connecting to right ip

i have set all pcs with static ips

i did have it working fine before but i just cant figure out whats different

i have had problems with the router before but they were all due to needing the ports set up and static ips and such

all that is sorted now but it just wont stay connected

when u say local host do u mean 127.0.0.1 or something like that because when i started with dp1 that worked for the pc running as the server

thanx for the reply

( running windows xp service pack 2 ) all of the pcs

EDIT : just came across this

fixed! just download: http://www.mtasa.com/files/coreconfig.xml

and put it in in gta folder/mta and replace it problem fixed!

gonna give it a go will post if it works

EDIT 2 : no change

i am going to try and set the server up on pc thats not connecting and try doing things the other way round just to make sure its not the router

once again will post any change as i know a lot of people r looking for an answer to this

EDIT : 3

mta server wont even start on problem pc / server window pops up for about a second and gone again dont know what is goin on but think its an issue with windows but will keep trying

[[DooD]Heavyair]

dont know what happened but it was a problem with windows

reformat and reinstall and it works perfect first time

very odd