I too run KR and 2D on Vista with no problems. Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the UO client? Sometimes that works. (My first thought was ports being blocked on your firewall, but that has already been mentioned!) Good luck!

Hi Romie,

Actually if your Norton subscription hasn't run out yet... keep running it then. Sounds like you have one of the Norton suites, which would pretty much cover everything.

Sounds like you've gone through most of the most obvious things to check. Even whitelisting UO in Norton's firewall (your PC's software firewall). Check the PC and running UO in the other room means it's not a network/hardware firewall/port blocking issue through the university's network. It's your PC... either the UO install is borked, the networking protocols and/or sockets on your PC are borked misconfigured... blocking the socket or port that UO needs.

I hate to tell you this... your PC needs a break/fix technician. Basically they need to reconfigure your networking, or uninstall your networking, reboot, and reinstall the networking over the top of itself (not a task for the novice). Tech'ing over a forum is kind of a process of elimination... and the OS' networking looks to be the culprit.

Does the university have PC technicians that will help students? Or you may need a professional who can pull this off.

Hope that helps.

Many thanks. The Uni does indeed have techies here to help, which is indeed an option I might take up. Thanks again!

Good luck Romie, please post back what happens. It'll be good to know your PC gets fixed and you're able to play again.

Cheers mate will do! although I've decided to leave it till after my exams now, don't wanna bugger up this year so I'm gonna wait till 4th June! Cheers!

Ya that's right, finals are coming up for a lot of people. Good luck on finals.