Stuck at 'Starting Local Server' - fixed for me.
Jonney
UK Join Date: 2013-10-07 Member: 188625Members
UK Join Date: 2013-10-07 Member: 188625Members
Hi all,
Just got gifted NS2 by a clanmate, but couldn't get the Training option to work.
I constantly got stuck at the 'Starting local server' point and had to kill the process to get out.
I've read quite a few posts, well 3 hrs worth, to be honest, trying to find a fix for this issue, as it seems a few others are having the exact same issue.
I was fine joining an online server but couldn't create one myself, I could even start a Half Life server, which I believe uses the same IP and ports on my machine.
After reading one post, by Maddin, if I remember correctly, I put it down to my stupid KillerNetworks embedded E2100 LAN chip.
So if you've got the issue and have a KillerNetworks LAN chip then that maybe your issue.
In the KillerNetworks manager program, under the 'application' tab it had set NS2.exe to a priority 1- Highest with an 'allow' option.
I changed this to a priority 3 - Normal and 'allow' and everything is now working fine.
I have no idea why this stopped it starting a local server, but nothing else I tried fixed it.
Hope this helps someone else as it took quite a bit of digging to find that post with that key bit of info in.
Should have known really as I spent quite a lot of time on the phone to my ISP about crud speeds only to find that it was all caused by my KillerNetworks LAN chip.
Cheers
Jonney
Just got gifted NS2 by a clanmate, but couldn't get the Training option to work.
I constantly got stuck at the 'Starting local server' point and had to kill the process to get out.
I've read quite a few posts, well 3 hrs worth, to be honest, trying to find a fix for this issue, as it seems a few others are having the exact same issue.
I was fine joining an online server but couldn't create one myself, I could even start a Half Life server, which I believe uses the same IP and ports on my machine.
After reading one post, by Maddin, if I remember correctly, I put it down to my stupid KillerNetworks embedded E2100 LAN chip.
So if you've got the issue and have a KillerNetworks LAN chip then that maybe your issue.
In the KillerNetworks manager program, under the 'application' tab it had set NS2.exe to a priority 1- Highest with an 'allow' option.
I changed this to a priority 3 - Normal and 'allow' and everything is now working fine.
I have no idea why this stopped it starting a local server, but nothing else I tried fixed it.
Hope this helps someone else as it took quite a bit of digging to find that post with that key bit of info in.
Should have known really as I spent quite a lot of time on the phone to my ISP about crud speeds only to find that it was all caused by my KillerNetworks LAN chip.
Cheers
Jonney
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Cool find!