Settlers III Technical Help (Routers, XP/Vista/7 64bit, Ports, QOTA, aLobby) | Forums

[pennyuk]

The original S3/S4 Obiwan?

May be a good idea to email Ian Harris hes the man for S3 atm

[IanHarris]

Obi,

That's a strange one and very hard to diagnose.

Check the ports and then re-check them again just to make srue you've forwarded the correct ones.

Also make sure that your computer is spyware/malware and virus free. If all else fails, replace your router and see if that helps. My preferred choice are Netgear's as they work tremendously well with S3.

Although I do know that you shouldn't be running S3 under the Compatibility mode in Vista - This option just makes programs very unstable. Welcome to the world of Bill Gates.

[whiskeyman]

Hi Ian,
firstly many thanks for the post i've got the game working on vista 64bit thanks to your patches.
I'm only playing single player missions which seem to work but the tutorial does not.
Yes it has been so long since i played it that a quick trip through the tutorial would be helpful :S.
Each time i click tutorial it crashes back to the desktop with the following error.

Structured Exception c000005 occurred at 0x005FADC9. Read from 3e9b3bf0 failed.

Any ideas?

[whiskeyman]

ignore previous post Ian.
noob here forgot to update to 1.60 before copying the updated exe over.

Sorry about that.

[IanHarris]

No problem Whiskeyman. Just glad that you reposted that you had solved your problem.

Might see you online tonight then?

[bhabiiexiv]

Hi! I'm really having a hard time with my Settlers 3 game. I got the game with my first computer which was a Windows 98 i think. I used to play the game almost everyday. Then we had to buy a new computer because the old one broke. It's a Windows XP and I think I know how to play the game on it. But that computer is really slow so I want to play it on my laptop which is a Vista. I've installed it but it won't play and says:

Kernel32 call does not point into KERNEL32.dll. Virus or incompatible Systemanalyzer detected! (#3000)

I'm sure that my laptop doesn't have any viruses so I'm guessing it won't play because it's incompatible.

Could you please just tell me what I need to do to play The Settlers III on Vista??

[LittleGeneral]

Hey there! I'm still having trouble joining games with my router, it's a NETGEAR.

I have forwarded all ports to my static IP and windows firewall is off. Sometimes, the first time I attempt to join a game after entering lobby I can get in.. but any attempts after that will fail. I can host games so ports must be forwarded correctly?

Thanks for any help!

[IanHarris]

Hi bhabiiexiv,

You'll be pleased to know I've just installed Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 and all is well - I've just Installed Settlers 3 in the normal way, and downloaded the Xp/Vista S3.exe file from BlueBytes website and overwrote the original S3.exe in the folder - Ran the game from the shortcut and all is well. I'm sucessfully playing Settlers 3 on Vista without any trouble at all. The Kernerl32 error you're receiving is very strange - Have you overwritten the S3.exe file in your Install folder with the one from the download site? Make sure your Vista is right up to date as well via Windows Updates.

Little General,

Hi, how you doing buddy..

You're problem sounds very much like a caching issue on your computer and not necersarily your router.
When you're having this problem, Alt+Tab out of S3 and go to a command prompt (Start > Run > cmd [Press Enter]) and then type: ipconfig /flushdns

You should then see "Windows IP Configuration Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache."

Now try and join another game. If that works then it's a caching issue. Let me know how you get on, and if that doens't work, I shall investigate further. Ps. What model router is it? (Turn the Netgear over and write here) Cheers

[LittleGeneral]

Hey Ian, thanks for the reply!

I'm doing great, just bumped into ChaZ Dixione who told me he was still playing S3 every now and then so thought I'd give it a go too when I came across the joining problem again..

Did what you asked and it said successfully flushed, so then tried to join another game but no luck. Again I could join the first game but any attempt after failed.

Also: Netgear MR814v2tw

Thanks and hope to see you in a random soon!! (if i'm hosting)

[pennyuk]

The Kernerl32 error you're receiving is very strange

Its a really common problem Ian,I have that error every new install of the game,the virus message is normal for a game thats not been patched with the XP one.