Battlezone 1

join OK click launch and it hangs on the load screen for 10 seconds then unhandled exeption error and freezes

I have a compaq recon laptop 3gbram athlon 64x2 2.1GHz nvidea M8200

Any ideas?

I try and join a game and it goes into the game and there is in the text box dots ( ............. <like that) scrolling for a ages and map is "unknown" then If I click launch nothing happens, click back it says "could not enter game"

please help

hi, try this

Thanks Snake,

I have forwarded the ports but still the same...

Strange, I checked settings and changed resolution (it had gone back to 640)
put it to 1024x768 now it joins the game says SUCCESS and then launch - and it hangs on the load screen and eventually i get the unhandled exeption error....

Please post your system specifications.

Well my bz install is 1.4 - I can play the missions fine - with full HW acceleration - I can't see the compass direction letters tho its just white blocks... When I go online I get into the loby - into the game room - and then it says Success - try and launch nothing happens eventually I get could not connect to game.

I have forwarded ports 21000 - 22000


OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 ROG (64 Bit)
Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name WIN-7IUPJGO57L6
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model Compaq Presario CQ60 Notebook PC
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD Athlon Dual-Core QL-65, 2100 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard F.54, 8/18/2009
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385"
User Name WIN-7IUPJGO57L6\Administrator
Time Zone GMT Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 3.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 2.75 GB
Available Physical Memory 1.24 GB
Total Virtual Memory 4.75 GB
Available Virtual Memory 3.04 GB
Page File Space 2.00 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

OK now i have downloaded 1.5 - installed fine,

Now I can only see one person in the lobby - and he is unresponsive so I guess I have a version mismatch with everyone else!

Is anyone else on 1.5b

You have a connection problem to solve. We could not join your game. Not because of mismatch, because of endless dots when joining.

Sometimes forwarding 21k-22k ports ins't enough. The issue happens on routers which force the usage of some unusual ports. Check this thread, it may be helpful.

Hey guys, I tried the static IP thing did did the tutorial on portforward windows 7 and It wouldn't let me connect to the internet - the tutorial said if that happens ring you isp and ask blah blah - Should it really be this hard just to PLAY a damn game!?

Even if I got the static IP im not sure that that will resolve the issue...

Ill keep tryin.

I have forwarded the ports in my router settings!

http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/ says its closed!?

Remote Address
Use Current IP
Port Number
Port 21000 is closed on 86.133.56.244.


see attached pic

That's port triggering, not port forwarding.

If you didn't set static IP then you didn't forward any ports.


I play BZ withouth changing default router settings. It is just that some routers don't like Bz protocol. What model you have?

Its a BThomehub 2.0

http://portforward.com/help/pfprogression.htm
http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/BT/BTHomeHub2/default.htm

Those links don't help?