Another God damned connection problem... need help

[old.El Doctor]

Ok it like this. I have the mod version of CS and downloaded the latest patch. I also needed the new patch for HL so downloaded the update from any version of half life patch as only had HL 1.1.0.6 not 1.1.0.7. Now when I have tried to connect I get the following:

Warning: UDP_OpenSocket: port 27015
SetSocket IP_Multicast_LOOP:
WSAENOPROTOOPT

Then nothing else happens, do not get the build message or anything. I also cannot type into the console and infact I have to reset my PC. I think the problem is with the HL update as I have a very similar problem with DOD.
Can anyone out there help

 

[ShockingAlberto]

everyone has this error message as far as i know and it does nothing. it sounds like u have the WON auth problem. this happened about 2 months ago, where alot of people got lockups when ittried to auth with WON, if u waite long enough it would unlock and tell u it couldn't auth.

the fix was to replace the auth address with IPs. i had the problem again about a month ago, so i commented out one of the auth servers and it did the trick.


when it gives u that error, does it get any furth, as in do uget
"connecting to xxxxxxxxx......
trying to authenticate with WON servers..." and then get a lock up, because that means u have the problem i described above. if u do nopt reach this then it's something else.

 

[old.El Doctor]

Cheers for the info mate but I've actually sorted it.
It was actually my firewalls that did it so just gonna have to fiddle about with them 'cos it works when I turn them off. Why I did'nt think of that before posting a message on here I don't know, can't think for meslef probably. Just had a quick game on Storm, seems OK. Not many using voice comms though.