Thanks guys. We are all on the latest update and patch. The thing I question is some of the maps we added have several other files (other than a bsp) that were put in our gearbox folder.

I will give steam a try this afternoon.

Sorry I'm trying to keep up.

It's been about a year sence I last played on line. Normaly we have enough people in the office to have a good game on the LAN line. Unfortunatly the server melted down two weeks ago. Our IT guy said he won't get to reinstalling halflife for another week or so (priorities go figure). So some of us are jonesing to kill each other. We would like to all jump into an online game and have at.

If you're trying to play CS I think this is a known problem with running CS1.4 and connecting to it/from it to a CS 1.5 machine. Like everyone else said, you might want to make sure that they're all the same version.

I doubt this is a network problem though, since you can get the list of games.

*Edit: I'm stupid. I somehow assumed you meant LAN game. Anyway, I suppose this could also happen if you're running through a firewall.

Does the mod affect the protocol?

And will deleting all gmdm2 files remove it or are there other hidden factors I need to be aware of.

Thanks for the help guys

any time i play online now, it's through steam. i still have the old install that can access WON servers, but there are an awful lot of them that refuse to let me connect because i'm not on the same lan as them. i was thinking that it might be some of these servers you've been trying to connect to, and there network protocols are different from the network you are on. but i know squat about networking though, so i'm probably talking s**t.

why dont you or one of your colleagues run a listenserver, and play that way until your IT guy gets it setup on the server?