I have the nVidia GeForce 840M GS and upgraded the drivers.  It's still not showing the game screen.
Any other ideas?

~Aryu

Edit:  I just checked @ the nVidia site and had it "check" my drivers.
It claims it's up-to-date.  Version 285.62...

I had a similar problem, except that I never got to play, and the game is still there-- missing its window-- because the music still plays...

No idea why.   I did what you did to resolve the issue (Admin Mode, Compat. Mode) and NOTHING resolved it.

I wish more people were here that knew what to do and that they were HERE more often than once every few months or so!  I need this help IMMEDIATELY, as I think you do too...

Maybe the Admins can actually work their magic and help out us newbies! LOL

~Aryu

Not really sure on this one, but I'd wager that You, as the Original Host (OH) cannot make someone else the Replacement Host (RH) and let them work the connection.

Since you initiated the game, you initiated the connection.  Meaning:  you cannot trade off the Hosting to someone else unless you end the game and the other person hosts.  I think it's the way the game's set up, that it's not possible to do that.

Hope that helps...

~Aryu

@Chuckie:  You're essentially right.  Your LAN IP is usually 127.0.0.1 which works out to be local if you're HOSTING any kind of local game connection, regardless of the other players.  This is the IP of your game host, and you have to make sure the others can connect to you locally, usually taken care of with your router (whether wireless (i.e. WiFi) or wired (i.e. Ethernet cable) is needed).

The simplest way to check is to log into your router and see if the other players are "showing up" in the list.  If not, you'll have to give them the password to log into the router (wired or wireless) and go from there.

I host these kinds of things all the time, as well as a local server I use for "serving up" various games and clients...  It saves me space (on my lappy's hard drive) and time (to get the connection right).  Take the time to get it right and you'll have hundreds of LAN games happening after a while, and you'll be the life of the LAN party!!! ^_^

~Aryu

Great group of forum avatars!
I'm thinking of doing my OWN version of the characters and races and pics for them, too.

It's one of those things that I'd love to do, as I've got some ideas for it already... ^_^

GREAT WORK Dave!

~Aryu

I can't wait to get started on skinning!
I want to make a couple of versions:  a Sonic the Hedgehog and a Super Mario set...!

What do you think?  If there's interest in this, then let me know.

Thanks.

~Aryu

You can do SO much more with Paint-dot-Net than with MSPaint!...

Go here to get Paint-dot-Net:  http://getpaint.net/
There's even a huge set of additional plug-ins for Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator exports, png, tga, bmp, jpg and other file formats...

I use it all the time.

~Aryu

[WHAT DO I DO NOW?]

I've tried both ways!    The Java-icon version of Mule.exe and the Mule-icon version of Mule.exe.
I get the SAME results:  The game screen comes up then disappears!  UNPLAYABLE!  Music plays...

The only way it works with the screen up, is if I have 3 running at the same time, which kills my computer's processing and makes Planet MULE unplayable...  (And annoying to listen to the music reverberate... LOL) >_<

Are there any tweaks that I need to do to make this game work?  

Please assist.

~Aryu

I've rolled everything Java on my computer back to Java 5.  Still NOTHING!  I can't get it to run in a browser window.  I can't get it to run properly ANYWHERE!  WHAT DO I DO NOW?

I've deleted it and re-downloaded it multiple times, and I still have NOTHING!

Where do I go from here!?  PLEASE HELP!!!

After playing a couple of games, I noticed that the "cards" used in MULE (the ones with the nifty sayings and hand-drawn graphics) are quite easy to read.

The messages near the bottom center of the map, when the AI wins in the Pub, these are all legible EXCEPT for the YELLOW player.  The yellowish background of the planet interferes with the bright yellow of the messages.  It also makes it even harder to read when YELLOW decides to place his plots along the center 5 on the map.  (Makes it nearly impossible to read.)

The Messages along the bottom center of the map.  Can you make an audible noise (like radio white noise), darken the entire center of the map, scroll the message into place, wait a couple of seconds, then continue the scroll to leave the screen and undarken the lower map border?

Also, there's no "Congratulations!  You've found the Wampus, but he decides to pay you $XXX to let him go free." when you find the Wampus.  All you're given is a floating "$XXX" dollar amount and the super-tiny Wampus head disappears for the rest of the entire game!  (I collected $150 or $250 when I ran into his little head, then he was nowhere to be found for the rest of the game. (This was in Round 3.))

On another note:  When you're playing with up to 4 AI opponents, you punch the MENU button and it comes up as expected.  The whole issue is with this menu, it SHOULD pause your game when you're technically playing by yourself.  I understand that there's no pause in a networked game, but you're playing against AI players-- on your computer-- and you have to answer the phone or get the door...  How do you pause the game for that?  In a networked game, there is no pause.  The player just has to deal with the loss of action, etc. and deal with it (I've played Borderlands and Halo; I know about player loss due to player inaction.)  Short of killing the game from the menu, there's no single-player pause...

Just my two cents...
I hope these can get resolved, though not bugs, and everyone can get back to what they're doing!

~Aryu

Hi.  I go by AryuLimitless here in the Forums and on the games (MULE mostly... lol)...

I loved MULE back on the C64 and the Atari 400/800 computers.  Superb game.
The NES version captured the whole of the nuances too (even when using the 4-player adapter)!

I wanted to play this game for a while now, and had been working on a PC-centric version with DarkBasic Pro but never could get it playable... 

Anyway, I hope to play with all of you, sometime ... and to all of you:  Happy New Year!

~Aryu

[NOTHING]

This weird activity is totally unusual for any Java program, as I play "Minecraft 1.0.0", in offline mode, and craft my own Java demo programs.  I downloaded the Windows version just today.  I really wanted to play this remake as I have been a HUGE fan of MULE on the C64 and the Atari 800!

I open the game file, Mule.exe, and it begins after about two minutes.  The music plays, the Java icon comes up on my taskbar, but there's no window to play it in.  Every time I activate MULE, I get the music but no window.

I checked to see what the "priority" had been set to in the Task Manager, it states Normal.

I have an HP Pavilion dv6575us.
CPU is an Intel Centrino Duo T7300 @ 2.0GHz.
Installed RAM:  2.0 Gb
OS:  Windows 7, SP1, 32-bit
Graphics Card: nVidia GeForce 8400M GS (driver date 15OCT2011; version 8.17.12.8562)
Java Installation:  Java 7 Standard Edition, Update 1 (build 1.7.0_01-b08)

Any assistance would be most helpful.

Please Note:  I dropped my Java Installation back to Java 6 Update 30 to see if this was the case.  (As in playing POGO games on EA's POGO site, which recommends that you roll back the Java to version 6.  Some issues in 7, according to their site, cause many games to not load properly and to not display graphic element in their proper layers.)

The Java rollback did NOTHING for the issues I'm having with the game.  I also tried MULE 1.0.0 and I get the SAME results!  Any ideas?