Player Name Disappears!

Greetings. I appreciate the wisdom and willingness of others to help that I see on this site.

Have been playing C4 for about 3 months, enjoying it immensely. Recently developed an odd problem in Multiplayer: My PILOT NAME does not appear when I join a game ... whether it's a small game my teammate and I start, or a larger served game, I can join and play fine, BUT my player name is blank. So when I die at then hands of a player named "JohnDoe", you see the message "John Doe killed ." No name before the period.

This doesn't hurt game play, but isn't much fun.

Note that this started when I installed the new "ibrowse.dll" they put on NovaWorld. When I try swapping back to the old ibrowse.dll, this fixes the name issue BUT I can't load the NovaWorld login screens via the in-game browser (I get a white "server can't load this page" screen. This was a big problem for me before the new ibrowse.dll.)

So I have a choice between no name or no game play AT ALL.

I play behind routers at work, at home, and on the road. At work and home I can either open up port 17200 or open a DMZ temporarily.

Playing on a Dell Inspiron (laptop), P3 1.2 GHz, 512 Mb RAM, nVidia GEforce2 w/ 32 Mb of VRAM. (Playing at 800x600 keeps frame rates high).

Any suggestions?

Mine did the same thing but I was able to swap back to the old ibrowse.dll and it fixed my prob..

You may want to try reinstalling the game to see if that helps.

you might try downloading the version1.5fixed from this site and using it. I think it has the c4.exe fixed, and startup.htm files, which, if placed in your c4 directory, work just fine for me.

U will lose all your Stats and customized controller config if any, but if u delete the C4plyr.sav it will probably fix the problem.
OR Rename it and if it doesnt work delete the new one and restore the old one.

You can delete your c4.cfg too, but Im not aware of any settings in there that would cause your problem, but maybe. Wont hurt to try.


BaneFWP

I'll try these. Thanks very much. Will report back.