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"Uziyahu" <NNOSPAMMuziyahu@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:kQFAd.185538$Oc.164686@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
> I'm pretty sure that I had TCP/IP installed when it erased my E drive
> (same drive OFP was resident on).
>
> If I remember correctly, you had to try to host a game in Direct-Play and
> have it fail to host before it would start wiping.
>
> --Uzi
>
> "smartdrv" <spanking.13.littlegoats@spamgourmet.com> wrote in message
> news:41d00ee4_2@news.dnainternet.net...
>> "didgerman" <aw990012@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:xBTzd.41$dn3.2@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net...
>>> Chaps,
>>> The changelog that comes with the patches mentions it's all fixed. It's
>> not
>>> that I don't trust BIS.....
>>> I can't host using sockets for some reason, probably because I run ICS
>>> as
>>> well, but there you go....
>>> Anyone use directplay now?
>>>
>>
>> Hmmh, you mean that disk erasing effect? I think that's fixed ages ago,
>> just
>> like they state in changelog.
>>
>> We (LDD Kyllikki, http://kyllikki.tiimipeli.net) have been using DP since
>> the beginning. Haven't seen any other problems. And if I remember
>> correctly,
>> you needed to NOT have TCP/IP-protocol installed to get that disk erasing
>> bug activated...
>>
>> Happy holidays etc.
>>
>>
>
>
It seems ok so far, I've only hosted on a Lan though.
Curiously, sockets did start to work again, but then gave up. Isn't that
usually M$ stuff that does that?
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