Please Help!!!!--Multiplayer

GenTomGun · #1 December 31st, 2002, 03:43 AM

Thanks Gandalph....i have done that. It works good but i would rather play tcp/ip and not have to worry with the PBM service etc.

Gandalph · #2 December 31st, 2002, 03:59 AM

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Originally posted by Krom:
Can you give me the link to this games net irc....i would like to find a live chat also.

Thanks,
Krom

You must first have an IRC client program, you can find a good one at www.mirc.com, then you connect to gamesnet with the IRC prog, then you join channel #se4.

GenTomGun · #3 December 31st, 2002, 07:47 AM

Well Fyron tried to help me tonite thru irc channel...thanks for the help. Still not working though. Tomorrow going to try and uninstall the game and reinstall see if that helps something could have got corrupted with all the mods ive been trying lately.

If you have any multiplayer fix or nightmare stories that could shed some light on my problem please post here.... thanks .

Gryphin · #4 December 31st, 2002, 10:15 AM

GenTopGun
I tried several times. I could not get it working. guess we could see what our systems have in common.

GenTomGun · #5 December 31st, 2002, 05:37 PM

Ok Ghryphon thanks for responding.

Lets see.. my system.......
WinXpPro runninga an Alacatel Speed Touch Pro router/modem combo has built in hardware firewall...i am not running any other firewall except for the xp firewall but it is turned off.

My router/modem config i have to do differently than a person with a Linksys etc. I have to setup what is called a telnet session in a command prompt to reroute port setting etc. Opening ports is a bit of a headache with my system. But it does work. I have to reroute ports all the time to play games on the interenet and 100% of them time it works. But with SEIV it has not.

What i have do is just go into my telnet session and create a forwarded port to my internal ip address of this pc. I have 3 pcs networked at home eache with its on ip. For example the lan ip for this pc is 10.0.0.2. All i have to in the telnet session to route lets say the two ports that SEIV uses:6716 and 6720, is create a udp port directed to that lan ip of 10.0.0.2. Thats it. And like i said it has worked for ever other game i play, NWN, Civ3PTW, etc, but this is one game that it does not.

It has to be a simple problem though. When i host i can see players join my host pc, there namea nd all and it says in the tcp/ip box, that they are connected, but after a minute the player gets a warning box saying it could not get connected to host. When i try to join as player same thing, they see me connected but my pc cannot establish connection to host.
So basically im getting connected about halfway and something is stopping or blocking the full connection. So i dont know, maybe im just not meant to play this game by tcp/ip

Fyron · #6 December 31st, 2002, 08:33 PM

I suggest emailing MM with this.

Ragnarok · #7 December 31st, 2002, 09:04 PM

Man, I wish I knew how me and my brother fixed this.
We had the same problem, I would host the game and I could see him connect on my end, but at his end it said 'could not connect to host'. We played around with some things and finally got it to work. But I cannot remember how we did it. It has been along time since then. We just recently tried it again but now it isn't working again.
I know one problem we had is I am on a home network and the internet is put through our server in our basement. At first me and my brother were trying to connect and he would put in my IP addy that I get when I run ipconfig in the command prompt. But then I decided to get my actual IP number and that helped with the problem. I am pretty sure that is what fixed it for good.
But its not working now, we think, because he has got a router and we cannot figure out a way to get around that just yet.