mine is worse. Once start the gameserver.exe, it freezes. Only a window with grey background with a title of 'game server' appears. Nothing go further. I tried to load the original one (without hexxing), also same problem.
Now i have solved the freezing problem, due to some header error. Now I come into the standby problem like your guys. Working on, any update will let u know.
Now I got the solution. If you are sure exactly that you have followed the given installation instruction carefully, then the problem is on your IDs. For example, if you installed SQL Server and want to use the SQL Authentification mode (like mine), then you will have the Authen ID of username : sa (default) pass : (what you want) and after that if you reach the step of creating ODBC user, then after that you will have another ID, we call the SQL ID. Then everytime that each server wants you to enter the ID, keep in mind that the Authen ID field should be filled by using the Authentification ID, for example, if you used SQL Authen, then enter 'sa' and followed by the password. Then in the 'SQL ID', you have to put the ODBC user ID in, for example, I used 'Mina', so my SQL ID is 'Mina' and followed by the password I used. One trick is that you can use the same password for that 2 IDs, easy for u to remember and protect confusion.
Clear enough ? I tried that, then the problem solved, I can play this game. Now I am on the translation and game research step.
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