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SgtFusion
28 Oct 2007, 04:06
This is yet another greyed out exit button glitch. I found out that if you are playing a game, and the other player disconnects due to a timeout, the exit button remains greyed out at the win screen, requiring the WA.exe process to be killed externally.
Here is the screenshot (with a link to the replay):
http://aycu18.webshots.com/image/32137/2000742815599059411_rs.jpg (http://download282.mediafire.com/yhyryhv1vmzg/0rkwzlxd1t9/2007-10-28+03.51.09+%5BOnline%5D+HostingBuddy%2C+Arielit0h %2C+%40Littlebro.WAgame)
EDIT: I am using the 3.6.28.0 patch.
franpa
28 Oct 2007, 06:15
how long did you wait for the button to un grey it self?
bonz
28 Oct 2007, 11:26
Yes, IIRC, after some quite long time it'll get normal again.
Although, I find it's much faster to kill the game (Alt+F4 to get back to the WN channel screen) and rehost a new one.
franpa
28 Oct 2007, 11:40
we both made a mistake, SgtFusion is a client and NOT the host, therefor he should have been booted back to the channels when the host left instead of where it shows in the picture.
SgtFusion
29 Oct 2007, 03:46
It was a game hosted by HostingBuddy (as you can see from the replay), and I waited for the button to un-grey itself for about 2 minutes, and then killed the WA.exe process externally.
bonz
29 Oct 2007, 09:34
It was a game hosted by HostingBuddy (as you can see from the replay), and I waited for the button to un-grey itself for about 2 minutes, and then killed the WA.exe process externally.
Did you píss off HostingBuddy at some point?
He's very resentful if you insult him, which I know from personal experience.
Plainplane
4 Nov 2007, 14:14
The same thing happened to me.

I was a client, and the game was not hosted by HostingBuddy. One player timed out several minutes before it got to the win screen. I waited 10 minutes before killing the process using Windows Task Manager.

Plainplane :)
franpa
5 Nov 2007, 00:45
it has happened to me too, but the frequency of it is so small its hardly worth looking into.
Plainplane
7 Nov 2007, 00:20
I forgot to mention - it happened twice in that same day. :(

Plainplane :)
SgtFusion
7 Nov 2007, 01:29
It happened again. It seems to happen every time the other players disconnect due to a timeout.
http://aycu31.webshots.com/image/33150/2000281352088578941_rs.jpg
SgtFusion
10 Nov 2007, 01:59
This is not on exactly the same subject, but the last time I joined a game, I had a little black square instead of my light bulb.
franpa
10 Nov 2007, 03:32
thats what happens when you minimize at critical moments ;)
bonz
12 Nov 2007, 10:47
This is not on exactly the same subject, but the last time I joined a game, I had a little black square instead of my light bulb.
I had that too quite some time ago.
Several of the buttons didn't show the images.
Instead, you had to click on the very top left corner where the button would be.

I think it has something to do with the game not loading the images.
(Like a dead image link in a browser shows only a placeholder.)