Cant find LAN games between 2 PC's

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Ok. I got sins Diplomacy installed on two seperate PC's. Both are the same version. I create a lobby on either PC but when I go to the game join list nothing comes up after hitting refresf multiple times  (I make a lobby on one and cant find it on the other.) Does it matter if my first PC is XP and second is Vista? It worked before with entrentchment. but once I installed Diplomacy it wont work. on Sins/Entrentch/Dip. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

You might get more and better responses if you post this in the Technical forum.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

 

Well a little more info would be helpful in giving you some suggestions CirroFox.

 

1.  Are both systems connected to each other via a switch only (ie. in the same room on a real physical LAN not a virtual LAN ala Hamachi etc.) ?

2.  Wired or WiFi?

3.  What type of security software on each of the machines if any?

4.  Firewalls?

 

Without answers to those questions you're most likey not going to get any further.....

Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Sorry its the wrong forum. tried looking for the right place for it ><

 

 

1.  Are both systems connected to each other via a switch only (ie. in the same room on a real physical LAN not a virtual LAN ala Hamachi etc.) ?                    (Two Dif rooms but both running through the same router)

2.  Wired or WiFi?     (Wired)

3.  What type of security software on each of the machines if any?           (Anti-V on both is AVG if thats what you mean)

4.  Firewalls?   (Yea both have sins as Allowed on the firewall)

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

 

Here's the thing.

 

If you just want to play a game between the both of you (without other people) then just do the following:

1.  Find out the IP address of the system you want to connect to (START >> RUN >> IPCONFIG)

2.  Click "Multiplayer" in SINS instead of IronClad Online and then "Join IP" (using the IP you just found)

 

 

If you do want to play with others online you'll have to deal with the fact that both of you want to go out and then back in (to/from the internet) over the same router.

1.  You'll need to modify one of the games hosting ports in the user.setting file

2.  Then you'll need to forward the default hosting port from the router to the machine you left unchanged, and forward the new port to the machine on which you changed it in the user.setting file.

 

I wrote a guide a few years ago with the steps needed for router config etc. which you can find in a sticky in the "technical" section of the sins forums if you need help with router config.

 

thanks,

the Monk