Ugh, PSOBB is getting on my nerves

[gothmaster3k]

Heya, Apollo here.

Sorry for our absence, everyone! I would most certainly love to play PSO right now but for some reason it isn't working--I was thinking maybe one of you guys would know what to do...

Yesterday, Mel and I were going to play a bit of PSO, however while she could join, I haven't been able to connect at all. I am entirely unable to do something as simple as opening the program. Last night, I would open up online.exe and it would say "Error getting file."... I tried again and the same thing happened. I fiddled around no more than editing the names of the programs (changing SHPsoBB.exe to shPsoBB.exe, etc) and all of a sudden the "error getting file" no longer showed up. I was thrilled! I clicked "Start" and it opened up the game. It then crashed like a car accident and brought up the old "shpsobb.exe is not responding, would you like to send a report?" crap, and I didnt even get to see the "Loading" icon in the corner... It crashed quicker than it booted up.

So that's where I am right now... I've tried reinstalling the game, using a different installer, using Melfina's .exe file, pretty much anything, and still the game crashes... I'm assuming it's got something to do with my internet, but all of my ports are open and my firewalls are shut down, so I dunno what to do...

So yeah, if I'm unable to find a solution to this problem, you all might not see us for a while until Crono finds a solution... the bad thing about this is I seem to be the only one (one or two others on the forums notwithstanding) encountering this problem :/

Oh well... if anyone knows what the hell's going on, it'd be awesome if you knew how to fix it!

See you guys around (hopefully) on PSO!

[Tenshu]

Don't just reinstall the game if you're on Vista. Uninstall and then start fresh with Melfina's installer, or wait for a bit so I can post mine.

If you're on Vista, disable UAC entirely.

Perhaps my installer can help but I'm waiting on a GM to see if the account information is tied to the registry and therefore I won't give anyone my account info upon posting the installer haha.

[gothmaster3k]

See, the problem is I'm not on Vista... If I was on Vista I'd have an answer as to why nothing worked: Vista.

I'm using Windows XP, service pack 3, 34-bit(not like it matters)...

The thing that really stumps me is... I was playing PSO two nights ago, and all of a sudden this problem comes up... I don't get it... I haven't done anything to my computer at all. The thing is, last night our internet went down for a good 30 minutes--that's the only thing I could imagine would affect the game, but I can't begin to know how it affected it or how to fix it...

I'm currently downloading Bugz's installer because I've heard it was the best one out there, so I'm crossing my fingers that this'll work... If not, I'm out of ideas. xD

[Tenshu]

As said, I'll post mine soon