Kai crashing when entering systemlink mode on Console

Team XLink Moderator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1215

Is your network reachable? yes
Are you using a port-forward? yes
Is your console being detected? yes
Brief description of your network setup:
Internet connected to modem, modem to router, both PC and xbox to router
Do you use a software firewall? What brand? Have you made any changes to it? no
Operating System? windows XP SP2
Problem description? see below kaiconfig

[KaiUserConfig]
kaiUsername=[SaD]TizzO
kaiPassword=***
kaiPort=34518
kaiDeepPort=0
kaiAccept=LOCAL
kaiTimeout=NOUI
kaiNIC=0
kaiLaunch=BOTH
kaiHomebrew=OFF
kaiPAT=ON
kaiAutoLogin=ON
kaiWireless=
kaiUI=Default

Just to be clear: Kai works but..
When console is already in 'searching for game' mode, before I boot up Kai, Kai crashes when I launch it and I get the 'report error to MS?' popup.
The same happens when I launch Kai, then put my console in 'searching for game' mode. It crashes the moment I hit 'system link' on the xbox.
This happens everytime, on different orbs.
I have to keep rebooting Kai and then suddenly (sometimes after 5 mins, sometimes after 30 mins) it doesn't crash and I can play the rest of the time without problems. This happens without me changing anything.

As you can imagine, although Kai works so not a serious problem, this is getting very annoying. Hope I can be helped (maybe by changing something small in the config or something Rolling Eyes

).

TiA -tizzo

Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:44 pm

Do you have more than one NIC in that PC?

Try selecting the NIC that is used to connect to the router in Kaiconfig

Team XLink Moderator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1215

I only have one NIC. Also searched for driver updates for it.
thanks for quick reply, -tizzo

Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 6:29 pm

does the NIC show up on the list in kaiconfig?

Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 9:27 pm

If I'm not mistaken you've had this issue for a while, right?

I'm wondering if perhaps your system didn't register the pssdk.dll file properly... That would make sense that it would crash only when the system link tunnels are established. It would also, possibly, explain why removing and re-installing the client doesn't fix this for you (I'm not sure, but I beleive I've seen you mention it as well).

I don't want to jump to conclusions here and direct you on how to unregister and re-register the DLL file - could one of the devs confirm this could be the problem? and also whether or not the regsvr32 command should be run locally from the same directory that pssdk.dll exists in?

Team XLink Moderator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1215

SS-CybrPunk wrote:

If I'm not mistaken you've had this issue for a while, right?

I'm wondering if perhaps your system didn't register the pssdk.dll file properly... That would make sense that it would crash only when the system link tunnels are established. It would also, possibly, explain why removing and re-installing the client doesn't fix this for you (I'm not sure, but I beleive I've seen you mention it as well).

I don't want to jump to conclusions here and direct you on how to unregister and re-register the DLL file - could one of the devs confirm this could be the problem? and also whether or not the regsvr32 command should be run locally from the same directory that pssdk.dll exists in?

Yeah correct, I've had this problem from the beginning of the new engine. Not with the old engine. But somehow it seems te have gotten worse after the last update (before it was now and then a crash, after it's every time).

But if it didn't register the pssdk.dll correctly, why is it that after countless kai reboots it does work? Confused

And Diehard, yes the NIC does show up in my configfile.

-tizzo

Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:02 am

Don't use the 'Autodetect and lock' in the Kai Config. Tool. Just select the actual NIC (that's what DIE-HARD was getting at).

Team XLink Moderator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1215

Quote:

Hope I can be helped (maybe by changing something small in the config or something Rolling Eyes

).

Ahem... am I clairvoyant? Embarassed

I just chose my actual NIC in the settings (after having it on Autodetect and lock and autodetect and don't lock) and this time I booted kai 5 times in a row without problems while searching for games on the console.. So I guess:

Problem Solved

Thanks for the troubles guys!

-tizzo

Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:25 pm

Glad to hear it. I'll admit sometimes I look too deep into things but I thought an old school Kai user like yourself would have seen this same problem in other threads.

Team XLink Moderator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1215

Yeah actually I did. And that's why I had selected 'Autoconfig and don't lock' right after the new engine came out.
I have never manually selected 'autoconfig and lock', but maybe this happened with an update or something.

But that's the reason I never looked into that, because I thought I had set it to 'don't lock'.