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me and a friend spent hours trying to multiplayer...

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Ok tonight was the first night I actually am cursing at this game and Ironclad. So much so I really am extremely upset.

Let me first state....Im a fairly knowledgable computer user. Been playing game for years. I know my way around in my router control panel and all that.

Tonight me and a new friend (who I just talked into buying the game) spent 2 hours trying to get a game going with no luck at all. We followed the guides on the site including that PDF that one player typed up. We set up port forwarding, trying all kinds of things like turning on DMZ and more. My Vista firewall is disabled.

Hell we even trying taking the router completely out of the loop. I hooked directly from my cable modem to my computer...still got same warnings about people may not be able to connect as Im behind a firewall etc. I have Vista Firewall off....Norton disabled and even took router out of the loop and still have the smae problem.

We both tried everything. We did notice that we both were able to connect to someone elses game. Yet neother of us could host a game. We could see each others games. But cant connect.

Im really upset. I think back to the videos on this game and the producer saying "We have avoided the hurdles of other RTS games as we have beta tested for a long time and dont have the connection issues...". I disagree. A game should not make you jump through hoops like this to get a game going.

I play alot of games. I could list 20+ on this computer right now and none of them ahve ever given me a problem like this to get a game going with a friend. This is really upsetting. If someone has any suggestions on how to get this working...please enlighten me.

We are both using Linksys routers. Mine is a WRT54GS. We are using Vista. My firmware is up to date on router. I set up forwarding under the gaming section of panel. As I said I even tried turning DMZ on. I tried a million things. this is really upsetting.

 

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Reply #26 from Sins Forums Top

OK, I'm totally confused. I have a linksys WRT54GS. I've been tinkering with this thing for an hour, and did my best to follow Monk's guide. Under the Applications and Gaming Tag there are a number of boxes. Under application, I wrote sins. Start I put 6000, end I put 6003. Someone else who has the same router told me these settings worked for him. Protocol I put both. There's an IP address already filled in 192.168.1. with a blank space after the last dot...I left that totally empty, since I didn't know what to do with it. I clicked enable, and hit save changes...and nothing. I disabled all firewalls. Can anyone help?
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JMW23,

1. Make sure you're using the correct guide "Networking and SINS" (linked from the very bottom of the "Technical FAQ") and not my other more generic guide (Networking for the Gamer)

2. Once you have the correct guide, follow it step by step. Don't skip pages/steps and you'll be fine.

3. If you then still have problems with the implementation on the steps in my guide (the SINS-specific guide) I will then do for you what I've done for many others and get you on my TS Server so that I can talk you through the steps. :)


All I ask is that you read and try to follow the steps in my guide before I get you on my TS Server, I will know if you haven't....hehe  :D 


the Monk
Reply #27 from Sins Forums Top
Yes, that was the FAQ I was following...the problem is that some of the steps aren't applicable...particularly step 4. I typed the under start and end. Was that right? Also, my PC's IP was listed, with a blank last box...which I left blank. It's hard for me to explain, as I'm not a technical person at all (can you tell). I hope I'm making sense.
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Reply #28 from Sins Forums Top
Yes, that was the FAQ I was following...the problem is that some of the steps aren't applicable...particularly step 4. I typed the under start and end. Was that right? Also, my PC's IP was listed, with a blank last box...which I left blank. It's hard for me to explain, as I'm not a technical person at all (can you tell). I hope I'm making sense.
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No worries then. Catch me on xfire (the1monk), we'll set up a time when you and I can be on my TS Server (TeamSpeak) and I'll talk you through the steps. :)

the Monk
Reply #29 from Sins Forums Top
I'll be honest, Team Speak, setting up appointments to walk through my problems...it's very nice of you to offer, but the amount of work that it's taking to get Sins to run multiplayer properly is all out of proportion to the time I'm willing to invest in it. The next patch is supposed to help with this, right? I'm just going to wait until then. Thanks anyway!
Reply #30 from Sins Forums Top
Monk, you might become obsolete when 1.1 patch arrives. But, I'm not sure how much that will do for ICO yet..so then again you may not. Anyways, you deserve like a ROFL copter or something for all the help you've provided.