Asda story - login problems.

[Ninjapoo]

posting this on behalf of my friend.

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Alright, so I have a PC [Windows XP pro] and a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop [Vista pro]. Both are decent.

I started playing a game called "Asda Story" with a friend. It works fine on the PC and is Vista compatible, but when it comes to running it on the laptop it fails. Lets me start up the game, seems to do alright with GameGuard then before it goes into the log-in screen it comes up with this:

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The only difference other than the OS is that my laptop runs Windows Live OneCare. And yes, I've added Asda to the exceptions list and such.

Any help on this would be appreciated. Thank youuu.

[Ninjapoo]

just done more testing.
team speak (http://www.goteamspeak.com) connects to a random server in china. but not ones in the uk, us or the one i made up hosted on my computer.

this is not making any sense

[Techmonkey]

Hey Ninja, not played the game and can find very little help online, however did come across these tips:

Quote: 1. Right click on Asda Story in ur desktop and choose "properties" which is the last option.
2. Once it's open go to "compatibility" the tab beside "shortcut" once your there check mark the "run this program in compatibility mode for:" click the list under it and select "Windows XP (Service pack 2).
3. Then on the bottom check mark the "Run this program as an administrator" then click apply or ok.
4. Open the Asda Story program again and either enter or a lot of patches will go through. Then try logging in the server again and u should be able too.
5. If you still can't get in, then go to your firewall and add asdastory program in your firewall to "allow".

Quote:Right-click My Computer, go to Properties.

Under the Advanced tab, click on Settings for Performance...

New window~ Click on Data Execution Prevention tab...
click Add... locate MaxOn system folder, add "AsdaStory"
and the "HspL" to the list and make sure it is "Turn on DEP
for all programs and servies except those I select:"

Both relate to problems connecting in Vista.

http://www.rs-anime.com/asdadream/forum/...howtopic=9

Ask your friend to try them and see how it goes.

What do you do in Asda Story? Start by collecting trolley's then work your way up to General Manager?

[Ninjapoo]

hey kid. thanks for the reply... LOL no you dont collect trollies or get trollied although i did laugh a bit at the name before i played it. it's the typical MMO game of you being archer/knight/mage type game... free to play so it's good

me and my friend both have tried googling and not found much info that helps. and have found most of the GM's on the asda story forum loves to copy and paste their responce saying the problem comes from being updated to the latest service pack/drivers/blah blah when the GMs themselves do not read the post or know they have actually done that already. and cant have any other responce... gets a little frustrating lol good game but bad management

[Techmonkey]

As far as I could tell the website for the game itself is no longer updated or supported by the game makers, a lot of dead links in their support pages.

So you have already tried those fixes above?

[Ninjapoo]

tried the methods already. the game itself is still in beta and hasnt been out for long... (the non oriental versions anyway)

[Techmonkey]

hmmm this is going to be a bit tricky then as it is a game that doesnt have much help about it on the web and we have tried all suggestions.

Is there any other security software on the vista machine, have you tried it with that disabled?

[Ninjapoo]

tried it all.
other games work.
the game has 'gameguard' on it. seems to work fine with other games that have the same company offering their anti cheat system.

it seems like re-downloading and re-installing doesnt even help the login issue.

i have a feeling something on the computer is not allowing the login protocol to happen... i know the other game 'rohan online' used to use http for their login protocol... so if you took the url / command line and paste it in your browser it'd take you to the server selection screen on your browser (but cant do much after)

but why would it not allow it? the security stuff were disabled and yet you cant play. i guess it's just one of those things... personally i'd format it just to make sure lol but she wants to do it another way not sure many people agree with the idea of reinstalling everything on the hard drive to see if a game can work then but i cant see any other way lol

[Techmonkey]

Unfortunately this may be one of those things we cant answer as it appears to be a problem with this specific game and without knowing exactly how it tries to connect to the login server it is hard to say what is being blocked.

Have you tried with UAC disabled?

How to disable UAC: http://www.petri.co.il/disable_uac_in_windows_vista.htm

[Ayame]

Hi, I'm the friend he's posting on behalf of. Thanks for all your help so far. It's a frustrating issue.

Interestingly the game worked earlier while I was at home, having not worked there previous times I tried it. Now I'm at University for a few days a week, I find it comes up with the error while I'm on the Uni network. When I get back home I'll see if uni has jynxed it again. D:

So I'm wondering if it's the Uni firewall [although a similar game FlyFF works fine] or my network settings being public. Although changing the network type to private hasn't helped the issue either.

Another difference is at home I use wireless, while at uni I use cable.