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

[Fyron]

It has not been deleted. It was moved to the SE4 Newbie Info forum Category or whatever it is called. Unfortunately, my request to have my post edited with the actual instructions on manually adding AI empires has been ignored.

Make sure you add an empire during the initial setup.

Not necessary. I have never had a need to do that.

Make sure all players are entering the multiplayer game filename the same. Apparently the game will allow the non host player to attempt to connect without setting the filename, but will not allow the player to succesfully connect without it.

Also not necessary. The players do not have to enter anything for the game filename.

[ November 19, 2003, 15:13: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[geoschmo]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.