Failed to download version.ini file
Stocken2
Beginner
I have this problem.. I've looked around and can't find any answers to this topic. I hope someone could help me with this, it ran perfectly last night.. now when I tried to start it today it didn't work.
Done so far to try to fix this:
Uninstalled [X]
Insalled agan [X]
Updated drivers [X]
Restart computer [X]
Restarted internet connection [X]
Done so far to try to fix this:
Uninstalled [X]
Insalled agan [X]
Updated drivers [X]
Restart computer [X]
Restarted internet connection [X]
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Z8games are probaly working on servers
And a 6hr upgrade without telling anyone doesn't sound like z8games
To do this...Right Click the CrossFire Icon and Click Run as Administrator
Hope this will fix it
@Stocken2 You wouldn't happen to be in Scandinavia would you?
Seems like the cf_patcher uses a link located in the LOCALINFO.DAT file. This is the link for the version.ini.
But this link points to a non existing file ( http://cfpatch.z8game.com/download/version.ini )
So it will never work. Either z8games fekked up and removed the version.ini from that site or the patcher guys got the wrong URL.
I notice my firewall is being funny, I turn it off, reboot and it works.
It's firewall related, the patcher is trying to reach Z8 to check the 'version.ini' and it can't.
You can keep your firewall on too, just make sure you're allowing Crossfire to do w/e it wants to.
Well i neither got my firewall or anti virus up and running at all, its like starship trooper said.. all traffic from USA is blocked or problems with..
But if someone would just share there latest 'version.ini' I bet we could get this to work.
I'm saying, make sure all protection and firewalls are off, and if they already are. Make sure Windows Firewall has an exception for all CrossFire stuff.
Just start the game and you won't get the error, those URLs are not needed.
Worked for me, easy fix.
[X] Exception for all Crossfire exe's and DLL's
[X] No anti-virus or similar.
[X] Administrator rights on all executables
But you're wrong, the cf_patcher when looking at it through a debugger fails on just that, it tries to fetch the 'version.ini' from the website mentioned above, the URL inside the localinfo.dat file.
After 120sec there's a timeout in cf_patchers.exe and that's when you get " Failed to download version.ini ".
So for as long as we can't connect to a website containing the version.ini we wont be able to run the game.
This is not the issue we have. Every connection between USA and Sweden is blocked for a reason or just down, no website from USA works for us today. It started around 2-3 pm today. It's proberly some net error, but 60-70% of the ones i know, and swedish forums has posted this issue.