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Old October 25th, 2004, 05:45 AM

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Default Re: Dominions II: Technical/Hardware Issues

Does anyone here have any experience with getting a server setup behind a firewall?

Specifically I am trying to get it setup so that people can connect to my server, which is behind a Netgear Prosafe FVS318 firewall router.

So far I have tried setting up port forwarding, and setting the IP address of the machine acting as the server to DMZ in both cases when I try to connect to the Dominions 2 Game that I have it hosting using the Public IP address of my cable modem it can not connect, when I use the private IP address of the server machine of course it works fine.

It seems to be an issue with Port Forwarding, or with the game listing only for packets sent to the IP address it detects when you create the game, (It of course detects the private IP of the Machine it is running on rather than the Public IP of the cable modem).

I am trying to run the server on Windows 2000 Pro SP4.

If anyone knows a way around this I would be very happy.

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Old October 25th, 2004, 05:50 AM

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Default Re: Dominions II: Technical/Hardware Issues

In addition I have only been able to try to connect to it from a different machine that is behind the same firewall.

Is it possible that a machine outside of my LAN could connect to the Public IP when my machine inside the LAN can only connect to the private IP?

If anyone wants to try to connect to the server it is currently running.

IP Address: 69.10.118.53
Port: 65000

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Old October 25th, 2004, 06:30 AM

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Default Re: Dominions II: Technical/Hardware Issues

I just tested it and I could connect. And I'm in the Solomon Islands. If I can connect, I bet anyone can connect.
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Old October 25th, 2004, 10:22 AM

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Cool, thanks deccan.

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I'm having trouble with my game dropping me to the desktop before it even loads up. Don't even get to the menu. I get a tone, as is usual for Windows, but no error message. I've tried re-installing with no luck.
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Old December 6th, 2004, 01:34 PM
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Duncanish, if you have a folder thats look anything simliar to this

C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\dom16882

then you should remove it. Having a leftover domXXXXX folder in your temp directory can cause Dominions to never start up.
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Old December 6th, 2004, 03:53 PM

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Checked. No domXXXXX folder around, but still the same problem.
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Sometimes during battle scenes my game freezes up and forces me to cold boot. I have the latest graphic drivers (Nvidia 66.93), directx9c and the 2.14 patch on Windows2000. I don't play Online.

The culprit appears to be something from the following applications that occur at the same time the game freezes...

Information - ccEvtMgr 7:21:56 (from NT Authority/System, no specifics)
Information - ccEvtMgr 7:21:57 (same as above)
Warning - WinMgmt 7:22:39 (WMI ADAP was unable to create object index 2022 for Performance Library MSDTC because no value was found in the 009 subkey)
Error - PerfNet 7:22:40 (Unable to open the Server service. Server performance data will not be returned. Error code returned is in data DWORD 0.)

Disabling Norton did not help. Uninstalling/reinstalling did not help. Changing graphic options did not help, disabling sound (via -s) did not help & this only happens with Dominions2 as no other games/software freezes everything and causes me to reboot.

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Default Setting video preferences

Hello,

My system crashed and I had to reinstall DOMII. I reinstalled it loaded the 2.15 patch. When I go to video options and I try to remove the check off the full screen option the DOM window becomes a SDL something window and then nothing happenes. I am using windows 2000 and I forgot how to check what video card and cpu stats sorry.

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