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Hello all. I am new to this forum, but I've been playing Hearts of Iron II for several years now. I got hooked on the original game, bought Doomsday, and later installed Armageddon. I love this game.

I also managed to get a buddy of mine absolutely hooked, and since then we've had a very wonderful time playing the game together. We play over Hamachi (a virtual LAN program - some of you might have heard of it or used it), and we always have a blast. Both of us have Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday Armageddon v1.1 GKCW.

However, over the last two days, Hearts of Iron has stubbornly refused to work. The game loads fine, and it runs in single player. However, in multiplayer over Hamachi, it either refuses to detect the presence of a game or detects it, but refuses to connect. Over Valkyrienet, it displays a game, but when I try to connect to it I receive a message "No game exists at this IP". We have not changed our settings since the last time we played together, and are both absolutely stumped as to what is going on.

Please help! We were having such fun taking over the world as the allied forces of the USSR and USA, and would hate to have to give it up.

My Stats: (Laptop)
Pentium IV 3.0GHz
1124MB RAM
Windows XP SP2

His Stats: (Desktop)
Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz
4GB RAM
Vista Ultimate X64 SP1
 
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i have exactly the same problem.
I have 2 laptops with windows xp which can see each other and join each others games but the other laptop with vista cannot see them or if it see them it cannot join their games.And if the vista laptop host a game the 2 xp laptop cannot see the game.

Can someone help us?
 
I've been trying to get multiplayer Armageddon going lately.

This USED to work just fine with Doomsday. What is it about Armageddon that requires a Ph.D. in network engineering to get working multiplayer???

I've enabled port forwarding for all ports, disabled firewalls, and it still doesn't work at all.

Hellooo? Paradox? Are you listening? You're about to lose 5 customers.
 
I have encountered the same problem as described in the first post of the thread. For the first time, I was playing Armageddon 1.2 (VBLB), Anthology version on both clients, with a mate. We played all day without problems, simulating a LAN connection through hamachi. Then my mate had a crash of the game and we stopped for the day.

Imagine my surprise when the very next day, with no altered software configuration and no new processes running, we are unable to connect the same way as described in the first post. Not through hamachi, not through direct IP (relevant ports open). We both reinstalled the game without difference, thinking the crash might have altered the software somehow.

Both computers run Windows XP SP2
Both computers have the anthology version of Armageddon, patched to 1.2

When replying to this topic, please make sure your connectivity issue is not just a router/port forwarding problem. There are many topics about how to fix that.
 
There are many things that could be causing this

1) Firewall on the PC itself, you either need to open the ports or disable the firewall.
2) If their is a router between you and your friends PC then you need to tell the router to redirect calls to the proper ports to the PC behind it.

Also Vista has some connectivity issues sometimes. It may be easier for the VIsta user to connect to the XP users instead of the XP user connecting to the Vista user.
 
I have the exact same problem and can't play through Valkyrienet, but only Hamachi. Hamachi works fine, although I have to join through IP since for some reason it doesn't show games for me in the "LAN" section when they are hosted.
 
we are 4 friends (2 Xp, 2 Vista) and we have the problem too, the 2 xp can see and connect to each other and the 2 vista same, but we cant connect XP to Vista or Vista to XP, we have all patch 1.3A and we have all the latest patch for windows. We tried via valkirie then via hamachi without success...
 
I have the same problem!

I have the same problem - Vista laptop can host the game and the XP machines can't see it.

Or....

XP machine can host the game, the vista laptop can see it BUT it cannot join the game. If you press join then it thinks for a bit but doesn't go in.

There are 8 of us who are now VERY good at the game and we are trying to organise a big multiplayer game. But we lack cpus that can actually network. VERY frustrating.
 
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