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My pal and I are having some serious problems playing EU2 (and 1) via LAN.

Problem:

We are both on the same work group on the same router. Firewalls (hardware on router and software on both computers) have been disabled for the time being.

We can both host, and the name of the game (or rather, the name of the hosting computer) will show up on the other machine. However - when either of us tries to join the game, EU2 will "freeze" for about 30 secs, and then just go on as if nothing has happened. Pressing "join" again has no effect - it merely blinks and does nothing.

So, the network is working and the two copies of EU2 seems to be able to find each other - but they won't communicate apart from broadcasting the name of the game...

Both computers run WinXP/SP2.

We tried reverting to EU1, which we played a couple of years ago - the laptop is the same, the desktop computer has been replaced since then. We encoutered the same problem as described above, however.

Any ideas?

-Thomas
 
have you tried hamachi? it creates a 'fake' network. maybe that works.
www.hamachi.cc
 
Okay, to add something to the problem which I described in the first post:

When we couldn't get it to work via LAN, my friend went home and we tried MPing over the Internet. It didn't work from my desktop machine, but it DID work from my laptop. They both use the same router, so presumably it is not a router problem.

I use McAfee anti-virus and firewall software on the desktop computer, but when we tried to get it to work I had disabled all of it. It still seems, however, that there is some problem with the ports or network setup on the desktop, wouldn't you say? But what? It is a standard WinXP/SP2 installation... Is there anything else to check, when the router is fine and the software firewall has been disabled?

-Thomas
 
I know I had problems when I used Zone Alarm firewall software, even when disabled. I had to actually uninstall it and reboot to get EU2 networking properly.

BTW are you 100% sure you don't have the Windows firewall active? XP Sp2 turns it on by default.
 
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