Originally Posted by wookiefriseur
Did it work before? If so, then what happened/changed?
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It did, with this windows installation. Good question, though. Unfortunately I took a break in playing ESO, and it's been a very, very long time since I last used Minion (never uninstalled). I changed a lot in the meantime, no chance to pinpoint when exactly it started to cause trouble.
Originally Posted by wookiefriseur
If it is a fresh install: Just reinstall Windows. Usually not worth the bother to pinpoint such a problem.
Some pointers for more advanced users (which is the case here):
If you REALLY want to invest the time and find out what happens and why, I would look at the network communication of Minion first (for instance with Wireshark):
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I do! Wireshark is an excellent idea, I never thought in that direction. Thank you!
Originally Posted by wookiefriseur
- are you using a hardware firewall? check the rulesets and logs, try to connect your Minion PC through your phone internet instead of your home network
- has the Windows installation been modified in some way? (disabled services, split user accounts, enabled/disabled features, utf8, not activated)
- is your PC clock set to the correct time and date?
- are there other JAVA installations and global environment settings conflicting with the Minion JVM?
- does this also happen with a newly created Windows user? (new local admin account)
- check network card packet sizes and settings, try a different network card or connection if possible
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There's a couple of points in there that I'll have to forward to my better half, he did the setups and I admit I'm stumped :'D
Thank you so much for your reply, that is a lot of information in there. <3
And you spent a lot of time with my problem, I'm really grateful
I will def. check all the points you mentioned, just the reinstalling windows is not a possibility atm, I'm working from home (translator) and my software is super icky when it goes to reinstalling (licenses n stuff always act up). But I'll set a weekend aside for a format C if everything else fails.
Will be my last resort (even though, let's be honest, it might fix everything wrong with this machine).
I do suspect that something went with my windows updates at one point; I just found out that I'm having network connection errors when trying to boot up the windows store, so that's a lead, I guess.
I'll try to fix that problem first, then I'll return to your suggestions.
Will update once that's done
Thank you!