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Vista to Vista LAN Gaming
Hi,
Ive been having trouble trying to allow two Vista Laptops to connect to each other to play Civilization IV Complete. The first laptop is mine and the second is my friend's. Specs for the computers are below 1) ASUS F3Sv Core2Duo 2.2Ghz Vista Ultimate 2GB RAM NVIDIA GeForce Running Windows Firewall and CA eTrust Antivirus 2) SONY Vaio Core2Duo 2.1Ghz Vista Home Premium 2GB RAM ATI Radeon Running Windows Firewall and AVG Antivirus Yesterday we tried networking the computers together but couldnt get the games to connect properly. The games work perfectly under single player. Also, the network itself is fine. The network cable works, is connected to the right spot and the computers recognise the network. I have set the connection to a Private network and allowed Network Discovery and File Sharing. Both computers can see each other in the 'network and sharing centre' and are connected accoring to the 'Full Map'. Also they can ping each other no problems using both IP addresses and computer names (Although the latter option displays some sort of wait period before the ping begins) Other games such as Warcraft III connect easily, but I cannot get Civilization 4 to connect by LAN. I have allowed the program (Civ4BeyondSword.exe) through the windows firewall and granted UDP Port 2056 access (As I believe this is the port the game needs) but they will still not see games the other has created. I have tried automatic IP addresses and manually setting them to no avail. I have tried various suggestions from other forums such as disabling IPv6 and QoS Packet Scheduling. Throughout this, both computers can still see each other normally but cannot connect through Civilization IV I have used the 'DirectIP Game' option to limited success though. When My friends computer creates a game and I join it, I connect to his computer and we can launch the game. However it drops out as soon as the game begins. If I create the game though, he cannot connect to my PC using DirectIP. Please Help!! |
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Vista to Vista LAN Gaming
Extra conundrum
I tried something I didnt last night which was networking the laptops wirelessly, and the DirectIP game worked no problem, which means it wasnt a firewall problem... |