WindowsXP + Space Empires IV = No Working TCP/IP play

geoschmo · #1 November 19th, 2003, 05:52 PM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Also not necessary. The players do not have to enter anything for the game filename.

I was merely posting what Resident Alien said there. He specifically mentioned that in one case he could not get a game started unless the player put the filename in. I labeled it as wierd because it didn't make sense to me. But sometimes when you've tried everything else and still can't get it to work you try the things that don't make sense. The worst that can happen is it still doesn't work, right?

Here's the link to the step by step thread. As Fryon said it's been moved.

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...=000011#000007

Fyron, what request to edit what?

Geoschmo

[ November 19, 2003, 15:55: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

Fyron · #2 November 19th, 2003, 05:54 PM

It would not hurt to try... I have just never encountered a situation where it would be necessary, and I have played in... 9? tcp/ip games? Somewhere around there. Only 1 or 2 were played for more than a few hours, but still.

larrybush · #3 November 20th, 2003, 02:30 AM

I play on XP with TCP/IP it works fine. You may want to look at your file sharing setup, the default is no file sharing. You may have to change that. Right click on the C: drive icon in explorer and look up file sharing in properties. Remeber that enabling file sharing is a security issue to when on the Internet.
LarryBush

The Frenchmen · #4 November 21st, 2003, 08:52 AM

Thanks for all the ideas =) it'll give me sompthing to try this weekend. and i got 1.84 gold, i think thats the most recent pach, winxp sp1 with all the most recent drivers installed. and only the host computer has problems, i'v tryed hosting on other computers but i always have trubble... no firewall on this computer, its on a network... and thanks again for the help =)

Fyron · #5 November 21st, 2003, 05:08 PM

If it is on a network, there is probably a firewall built in to the router... you will most likely need to forward the ports to the internal (LAN) IP address of the host computer, and have players connect to the WAN IP of the router. I believe that SE4 will show both of those IP addresses in-game when the host creates a TCP/IP game.

[ November 21, 2003, 15:10: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

JayBdey · #6 November 22nd, 2003, 12:58 AM

I had a similar problem. I finally just disconnected my router and connected my one computer directly to the modem to play.

I forwarded the ports and every, but it still wouldn't work.

The Frenchmen · #7 November 23rd, 2003, 10:09 AM

the thing is, i dont got a router, i'm useing ICS, and teh errors i get (crashing after 70 turns give or take, and the host not being able to open the save game file) dont sound like network problems, and i use to use win98, and it worked fine =(