Bug or Feature? In any case, bloody annoying

[Farnaby]

I setup my realm in RW on my desktop and then synced my laptop with the realm. RW has been running flawlessly on the laptop.

At the game, I started RW without internet access and received the following error:



I have entered a bug report, am not sure if it is a bug though??

It took half an hour to get internet access from a neighbour and RW worked perfectly. The connection dropped, and same error.

Anybody else seen this?

[mirtos]

never tested with no internet actually.

but thats definitely a bug, assuming you have registered once (if i read you correctly, you have).

[Parody]

I tried disabling my desktop's wired adapter and Realm Works ran, but I don't have extensive configurations with which to test.

[Tharmiones]

Did you try to Logon while being off-line or did you directly use the "Off-line" Mode?

[Farnaby]

Originally Posted by Tharmiones

Did you try to Logon while being off-line or did you directly use the "Off-line" Mode?

Didn't even get the chance, the error came straight away.

[mirtos]

I wonder if this has anything to do with the check for updates.

What version is your laptop running?

[Farnaby]

No, can't be as I synced my laptop 2 hours before the game.

[Destrin]

Are you running VPN software or similar on your laptop?

I run into this problem all the time and the issue is to do with how RW detects that the machine has synced or not. It makes a small local note that is based off the MAC address of your network cards. If it detects the network card is different, then it refuses to allow RW to boot up until it has an internet connection.

Sounds like it shouldn't be a problem? Well - if you have VPN software that has it's own network adapter, it can happen that the MAC address for this virtual adapter can change when you reboot the machine. It's really annoying, the only possible workaround is to merely put your laptop into suspend or hibernate or similar after having synched the realm. If you reboot, the MAC address changes and RW thinks that you've moved the files to a new machine and refuses to boot.

I have logged this with LWD, but so far they haven't said they are going to fix it.

[Farnaby]

Well it seems that it has to do with the miniport driver.

I am running a german windows xp and when you call up the ipconfig
it says Paketplaner-Miniport instead of packet scheduler miniport.

So David said he will put this in the next version and we will try from there.

[Acenoid]

XP? You have to upgrade man :P