When I gonna to start playing at wormnet ('Loading, please wait...' screen shows at lobby), palette suddenly alters and then game just crashes with no any message. I cant play at net becouse of that bug. Also local games are played normally. I dont use any firewall.

W:A Beta Version: 3.6.26.5 B
Operating System: WinXp Prof
CPU: 1.6GHz
System Memory: 512MB

With me the palette only alters if you try to close it down, by with the combination of left clicking on the backgrounds and alt+F4 you can get yourself back out of it and back to desktop.

When your stuck on the "please wait working" message, you can use task manager to close the game down.


I still havn't got onto worm net but apparently I've been through all this before and solved it.
What did I do back then?

I am doing nothing. Host starts game, ''please wait'' message appears and then game just terminates without nothing.

Problem : The person hosting can't actually host a game. It has nothing to do with your configuration.

Solution : Get them to configure their firewall/router correctly.

http://www.nanacide.com/wahelp should tell them what they need. Send them there.

he wouldnt be able to get to the point of the host starting a game he's in if the host is not set up for hosting.

Ah OK. I didn't read it properly. I assumed you tried to enter a host's game and it timed out. Never mind.

LOOOOL I CANT JOIN ALL GAMES.
You certainly dont think all hosts can't host game???

hmmm, yea upon revise i was wrong with what i wrote above (as usual)

Do you have any kind of firewall/anti-virus/security software?

LOOOL I not so stupid, before starting game i turn them all off to avoid some problems.

LOOOL I not so stupid, before starting game i turn them all off to avoid some problems.
Well, that sounds kind of stupid to me.
I configure my firewall properly to play without problems while still being safe.

The problem I had (which is now fixed) was that my firewall prompt me to take action of WA connecting to the net (as the game first loaded up) but later on when I went to connect online, it was promting me again (a different connection to the first one) but this happend in the background and WA would freeze and wouldn't minimize thus causing the problem.

I simply had to manualy look through my firewall to enable both ports for WA (that second port that was causning the problem couldn't have been enabled any other way)

Also if I turned off my firewall then Windows would have a fit and demands that I turn on its own firewall.

maybe cybershadow or someone could adjust the frontend so that we can minimize during tho's loading screens... the ones which have a black box with white txt saying to wait.

maybe cybershadow or someone could adjust the frontend so that we can minimize during tho's loading screens... the ones which have a black box with white txt saying to wait.
Well, you can always minimize with Alt+Tab or the Windows key and then after restoring minimize properly again via the escape menu option to restore the color palette.

Well, you can always minimize with Alt+Tab or the Windows key and then after restoring minimize properly again via the escape menu option to restore the color palette.

Non of that worked for me, Ctrl+alt+del was the only thing I could do to minimize WA, and even then, that didn't always work.

Non of that worked for me, Ctrl+alt+del was the only thing I could do to minimize WA, and even then, that didn't always work.

yep, several times nothing on the keyboard did anything.

I DONT have firewall!

do you have antivirus? if yes then what?

Umm he already answered that question in this thread.

There could be many possible things causing these crashes. Could be even some kind of malware.

The only suggestion that comes to my mind is a reinstall of the OS.

Before a full reinstall of your operating system there are two things I think you could try.

The first is to create a new user account on XP called TEST or something, (can't hurt to make sure it's an admin account) and without setting up anything, just load worms and see what happens.

If that doesn't work, ask a friend to try running their machine on your internet connection, or maybe try running your machine on someone elses network, this way you can find out if it's your internet connection or your PC.

Before a full reinstall of your operating system there are two things I think you could try.

The first is to create a new user account on XP called TEST or something, (can't hurt to make sure it's an admin account) and without setting up anything, just load worms and see what happens.

If that doesn't work, ask a friend to try running their machine on your internet connection, or maybe try running your machine on someone elses network, this way you can find out if it's your internet connection or your PC.

both you and your companion would need a ok internet connection for it to be a easy task tho.

Just some ideas, because we all know reinstalling an OS is not a terribly convenient thing to do, and if you can avoid it, most people prefer to.

I tried everything: no effect.
Umm... forgot to say i connected to internet throught lan (not proxy)