Please Help!!!!--Multiplayer - Page 2

Gryphin · #11 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 · #12 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 · #13 December 31st, 2002, 08:33 PM

I suggest emailing MM with this.

Ragnarok · #14 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.

GenTomGun · #15 January 1st, 2003, 06:29 AM

Thanks again for the replies. As far as your suggestion Ragnorok, when we try to connect we do use our acutal ip addresses provided by our ISP provider. Meaning when they try to connect they do not type in the 10.0.0.2 which is the lan ip i have for my host, they type in my acutal ip address. Probably shortly i just go get a linksys router and dump this piece of crap of modem/router i have.

Fyron · #16 January 1st, 2003, 08:29 AM

You did not alter the Source IP lines at all in SE4, did you? Doing so is not a good idea.

KirbyEF · #17 January 1st, 2003, 08:41 AM

I have had better luck hosting from a Win98SE machine... I don't know what OS's you have or how many computers you have, but I would suggest trying to setup a PC (with 98), just for the purpose of hosting and see if that fixes your problem (Dual boot if necessary).

I also noticed a problem with a PC with a VPN software installed (for access to corporate network). I don't know if this is a factor, but the above solution might fix your problem.

KirbyEF

GenTomGun · #18 January 1st, 2003, 09:28 AM

Fyron...no i havent messed with those but since you mentioned them where would i find those source lines at?

Kirbyf.....right now im running winxp pro..i ahve 3 pcs networked....see my writup for additional info....as for VPN software no i do not have nay running i dont think..as far the win 98 se.. that might be a possiblity..all my pcs are running xp pro at moment i may change one over to test that theory of yours.

Fyron · #19 January 1st, 2003, 10:14 AM

It is in the screen where the player selects a nick and a host IP to connect to.

I host and play from 2000 with no problems. XP is the next generation of 2000, so that shouldn't be too much of a problem.

[ January 01, 2003, 08:16: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

GenTomGun · #20 January 1st, 2003, 08:18 PM

No. I havent changed that either. That is true..about win2000, however in xp they did change the kernal somewhat that xp runs off of, including some of the network code etc. One of my friends has 98 still on a laptop he is going to try and get it going and host a game today see if that changes anything.
Im on a quest now to solve the tcp/ip woes of this game one way or another!!!