Help with RtCW

gobble gobble

I've completed the Return to Castle Wolfenstein single player levels and want to play multiplayer. I boot multiplayer, enter source:internet, type: all, and the rest of the settings. The game then just perpetually flashes "waiting for response from master server." I assume that there are Mac RtCW servers out there. Can anyone help? Is is possible that my firewall app (Brickhouse) is blocking the proper port? Starfleet X are you out there?



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dstranathan

Hi



Check port 29760 on your router/gateway/firewall. This is the port for RTCW (and Quake 3).





...just a thought.

gobble gobble

dstranathan,



Thanks. I turned off Brickhouse and suddenly I found 71 servers for RtCW. I'll try the port you identified. For future reference, how do I know which port an online game needs without it telling me?

gobble gobble

Also, how do I know TCP or UDP?

gobble gobble

Okay - I tried both UDP and TCP for that port but RtCW still isn't getting through to the master server. Any other ideas (other than leaving the firewall turned off)?

gobble gobble

Okay here's the Brickhouse Firewall log when I tried RtCw with the UDP Port open:



Darn it! How do I paste a picture here? I used Grab to create a .tiff but can't figure how to insert it into my message!



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mac's girl

i know this is a little off topic...but anyone remember how to show the fps for RTCW? im having a senior moment and cant remember.



p.s. we may not be seeing gobble gobble for a while, since that rtcw multiplayer is so damn addictive!!!

perfection

Try running "tcpdump -i en0" (as root) while running the application in the state where it´s searching for servers or when the game is running. This should work, otherwise replace "en0" with the name of your network device... (You might have to install the dev-tools to be able to do this.). This dumps all the traffic on your network that your computer recives with portnumbers and all. This could sometimes be a large amount of data. Try to minimise it by quiting mail programs, ICQ, file server connections (NFS, AppleTalk etc), and other frequent network-using applications.



Have fun!!

gobble gobble

Okay - I solved my RtCM problem with Brickhouse. See <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=7&t=000767"; target="_blank">http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=7&t=000767</a>;