since yesterday patch im unnable to join SK... a message keeps popping out that i cant reach the files or the download servers.
message: We were unable to download the necessary files after five attempts. You can try running this application again, but if it fails you may need to uninstall and reinstall
Considerations:
- no changes on my machine
- no firewalls
- tryed to log directly from sk website, still no good
- i logged in the morning before the released bugfix on 05/19, it was ok
- appearently, no error logs on spiral folder
My specs are: AMD x2 4400+ / 2Gb RAM / ATI HD 5770 - Windows XP SP3 and the latest 1.6.0 JRE
Bumping this up because I'm having the same problem after the Sep. 9 bugfix.
I'm in the same basic circumstances as orggbr:
It ran just fine before, and then suddenly this happened.
I only have one (configurable) firewall that I'm aware of. I already have it set to forward the right ports.
I made sure that it wasn't a problem based on changed settings.
The only changes there might have been were maybe an update to Steam and a Mac security update.
Yes, I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game, multiple times.
Different environment. My specs are:
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
3 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Mac OS X 10.6.8
ATI Radeon HD 2400
Java Version: 1.6.0_26 from Apple Inc.
This happens in both 32-bit and 64-bit mode.
I had a slightly different experience with the web and desktop versions. This first hit me as a problem with Steam, where it occurs before it even lets me log in. I had to make a non-Steam SK account to test this, but in the other versions, it works up until my knight reaches the rescue camp, and then I get this error (which shows under the game GUI).
Once, I got this error instead. I don't know what changed, other than I happened to have a different version open (the web-based one, I think). However, updates still weren't working. It would try to update, and then restart itself over, and over, and over, and over... I'd say at least a couple-dozen times with no end in sight. Sometimes it would have more than one instance of the game open at once, up to four that I could see. I finally managed to get it to stop by force-quitting before it tried to update itself. Sometime later, I was just getting the 'unable to download' message again.
Once or twice, before I made a non-Steam account, I tried copying data over from the desktop version and replacing some of what was in the Steam version, since the data appeared to be similar (all Java, a lot of the same files...), but not identical. Yeah, I know, probably not the best idea and whatnot, but since it wasn't loading at all on Steam, and I could always re-install, I figured I wouldn't be losing much, and I was really careful about replacing individual files. Once, I got it to get to the point where I could select my knight, but when selected, a 'entering town' message appeared in the bottom-right corner, but nothing else happened. I haven't tried modifying the files themselves (not enough skill to dare to do that!), just moving over stuff from a version that seemed to work better. Okay, I tried the digest thing once, but there was no change in behavior.
After a lot of the stuff tried above, I tried installing for the first time (through Steam) on a different computer; Dell, P4 (about 2 GHz, IIRC), XP SP3... It worked, no problems that I could see. Still, for various reasons, I'd prefer to get the game working on my Mac – my preferred platform. I think my next test might be copying data from the Windows copy to the Mac one.