Infamous Won Logon Problem Solved
ubermensch
Join Date: 2002-12-31 Member: 11692Banned
Join Date: 2002-12-31 Member: 11692Banned
in Tech Support
<div class="IPBDescription">is Update listing you 30,000 servers?</div> <!--QuoteBegin--W2K+Nov 20 2002, 12:54 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (W2K @ Nov 20 2002, 12:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--watashi5000+Nov 7 2002, 05:46 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (watashi5000 @ Nov 7 2002, 05:46 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Why the suddent intrest in this stuff? Are you getting that Unable to log on Valve crap im getting too?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
everytime i try to update and look for NS servers in HL,
(all the options selected in filter, ie, game NS,)
it still browses through like 30,000 servers, which sucks and takes a long time
and most of em are CS, so when im done like 2000 servers, i might only have 5 NS servers show up<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes and i found the fix. One post on these boards said to delete the favservs.dat in the HL directory, which works, but thats a pain in the arse (althought a simple batch script makes it easy to do).
It seems that the information half life uses to connect is stored in "C:\SIERRA\Half-Life\valve\" in the file "woncomm.lst". Browse to that directory, and open "woncomm.lst" with notepad.exe or any text editor of your choosing. you should see somthing like this
<b>// Server Lists
//
Titan
{
half-life.east.won.net:6003
half-life.west.won.net:6003
half-life.central.won.net:6003
}
Auth
{
half-life.east.won.net:7002
half-life.west.won.net:7002
half-life.central.won.net:7002
}
Master
{
half-life.east.won.net:27010
half-life.west.won.net:27010
half-life.central.won.net:27010
}
ModServer
{
half-life.east.won.net:27011
half-life.west.won.net:27011
half-life.central.won.net:27011
}
Secure
{
half-life.speakeasy-nyc.hlauth.net:27012
half-life.speakeasy-sea.hlauth.net:27012
half-life.speakeasy-chi.hlauth.net:27012
}</b>
I took a wild guess, and assumed "east", "central" and "west" specified which server to connect to, based on location (in the united states). I live in Virginia, all the way on the east coast, so my obvious choice was to connect to the "east" servers, figured if anything it would reduce hops/ping/update time, maybe even fix the WON probelm all together. So, considering I live in the east.... I deleted all "west" and "central" server entries from the file.
Also, in the "Secure" part, I assumed <b>nyc</b> in <b>half-life.speakeasy-nyc.hlauth.net:27012</b> stood for New York city, New York, which would be east coast, <b>sea</b> in <b>half-life.speakeasy-sea.hlauth.net:27012</b> stood for Seatle, Washington, whcih would be west coast, and chi, whatever it is, by process of elimination was the city of central location.
After making the changes to the file, it ended up looking like this:
<b>
// Server Lists
//
Titan
{
half-life.east.won.net:6003
}
Auth
{
half-life.east.won.net:7002
}
Master
{
half-life.east.won.net:27010
}
ModServer
{
half-life.east.won.net:27011
}
Secure
{
half-life.speakeasy-nyc.hlauth.net:27012
}</b>
With, as can be seen, all servers that are in the central/west deleted. I saved the file, opened natural-selection, multiplayer, internet games, and it didnt give me a 10 second wait while it was supposedly "logging onto Valve." This was obviously a good sign. I then proceeded to click update, and it worked. It updated the server lost, about 200 servers, all NS, only NS. To be sure it wasnt a one time thing, i closed and then reopend NS, same results. Its been about a week now and i have no problems, it's withstood the test of time and appears to be the solution ive been loking for.
Btw if you didnt get the jist of it, you cant copy and paste my fix. you have to taylor it to where you live, so for example if you live in california on the west coast, you would delete all but the "half-life.east.won.net" and 'half-life.speakeasy-sea.hlauth.net:27012" servers.
everytime i try to update and look for NS servers in HL,
(all the options selected in filter, ie, game NS,)
it still browses through like 30,000 servers, which sucks and takes a long time
and most of em are CS, so when im done like 2000 servers, i might only have 5 NS servers show up<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes and i found the fix. One post on these boards said to delete the favservs.dat in the HL directory, which works, but thats a pain in the arse (althought a simple batch script makes it easy to do).
It seems that the information half life uses to connect is stored in "C:\SIERRA\Half-Life\valve\" in the file "woncomm.lst". Browse to that directory, and open "woncomm.lst" with notepad.exe or any text editor of your choosing. you should see somthing like this
<b>// Server Lists
//
Titan
{
half-life.east.won.net:6003
half-life.west.won.net:6003
half-life.central.won.net:6003
}
Auth
{
half-life.east.won.net:7002
half-life.west.won.net:7002
half-life.central.won.net:7002
}
Master
{
half-life.east.won.net:27010
half-life.west.won.net:27010
half-life.central.won.net:27010
}
ModServer
{
half-life.east.won.net:27011
half-life.west.won.net:27011
half-life.central.won.net:27011
}
Secure
{
half-life.speakeasy-nyc.hlauth.net:27012
half-life.speakeasy-sea.hlauth.net:27012
half-life.speakeasy-chi.hlauth.net:27012
}</b>
I took a wild guess, and assumed "east", "central" and "west" specified which server to connect to, based on location (in the united states). I live in Virginia, all the way on the east coast, so my obvious choice was to connect to the "east" servers, figured if anything it would reduce hops/ping/update time, maybe even fix the WON probelm all together. So, considering I live in the east.... I deleted all "west" and "central" server entries from the file.
Also, in the "Secure" part, I assumed <b>nyc</b> in <b>half-life.speakeasy-nyc.hlauth.net:27012</b> stood for New York city, New York, which would be east coast, <b>sea</b> in <b>half-life.speakeasy-sea.hlauth.net:27012</b> stood for Seatle, Washington, whcih would be west coast, and chi, whatever it is, by process of elimination was the city of central location.
After making the changes to the file, it ended up looking like this:
<b>
// Server Lists
//
Titan
{
half-life.east.won.net:6003
}
Auth
{
half-life.east.won.net:7002
}
Master
{
half-life.east.won.net:27010
}
ModServer
{
half-life.east.won.net:27011
}
Secure
{
half-life.speakeasy-nyc.hlauth.net:27012
}</b>
With, as can be seen, all servers that are in the central/west deleted. I saved the file, opened natural-selection, multiplayer, internet games, and it didnt give me a 10 second wait while it was supposedly "logging onto Valve." This was obviously a good sign. I then proceeded to click update, and it worked. It updated the server lost, about 200 servers, all NS, only NS. To be sure it wasnt a one time thing, i closed and then reopend NS, same results. Its been about a week now and i have no problems, it's withstood the test of time and appears to be the solution ive been loking for.
Btw if you didnt get the jist of it, you cant copy and paste my fix. you have to taylor it to where you live, so for example if you live in california on the west coast, you would delete all but the "half-life.east.won.net" and 'half-life.speakeasy-sea.hlauth.net:27012" servers.
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send me your info (C:\SIERRA\Half-Life\valve\woncomm.lst), ********[removed]
i'll see if i can help