Multiplayer IS NOT WORKING for me

[Saboteur100]

I have tried everything, but my friend and I simply cannot get it to work... I've opened the necessary ports, we've both registered our games on this forum, and we've tried playing via the Metaserver and the regular way, but it simply won't work. I'm hosting the games, and my friend gets messages such as "Game not found"... We both have the SAME DLCs installed and activated. I do not know what the problem is. Can someone please give me some advice as to something I can do to make it work?

 

[AndrewT]

OK, for a start the metaserver is not working, so forget that. Direct IP does work with 1.05e, we have several ongoing games in the MP forum to prove that.

First question: do you both have the same version # and checksum?

Secondly: has the host forwarded the necessary range of ports, as detailed in the MP forum sticky help thread?

Thirdly: have you both allowed the whole range of ports through all firewalls you both might have? Each of you could have up to 3 firewalls: Windows' own one, one you may have installed, one in your router/modem.

Fourthly: (assuming you are not on the same network as each other) confirm you are using the correct IP external address for each other, as seen on www.whatsmyip.com , not your internal network address (ie NOT 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x) .

 

[Saboteur100]

Thanks for the reply...

He just told me that his checksum is "FDNP" while mine is "BDNP" but we have the same game version (the most recent one - v1.05e). He says he hasn't installed any mods... So how do we get the same checksum and why would we have a different one?

 

[AndrewT]

His is wrong because the game changes the checksum when you resign or drop or of a game in progress. If he exits the whole game and then starts it up again he'll have the same as you. This is a deliberate measure to force people who drop out of MP games to restart the whole program, which aids MP stability.