Alright, so me and a friend of mine decided to take up playing Multiplayer on hamachi. The problem is that my friend cannot join any servers. He gets a "The requested action is taking longer than expected" error, or whatever. We tried seeing if it was IPv6, like everyone says, and that wasn't it, though I doubt it helps. I then read that apparently, when norton and several other antivirus programs have problems with freelancer when installed on vista. The thing is, my friend is running windows 7 64bit, so I don't know if this applies. Any idea what could be causing the problem?
[editline]17th December 2011[/editline]
Update, my friend uninstalled Norton, and had IPv6 disabled on both his system and Hamachi, still nothing.
Stop using shitty Hamachi, you can't connect to internet servers through it, unless the other server is also using Hamachi.
[QUOTE=bohb;33778526]Stop using shitty Hamachi, you can't connect to internet servers through it, unless the other server is also using Hamachi.[/QUOTE]
I'm not that stupid, my friend is using hamachi too. I've used hamachi for Terraria, Supreme commander, minecraft, and such.
[editline]18th December 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;33779961]Ancient gameware is ancient.
Luckly I'm here. This is probably down to a bug with vanilla FL or the fact that you're ports aren't open for hamachi use.
Either way Hamachi is a shit way, just download the global server workaround fix from ModDb install on both machines and get a lan server going or find a server online. Jeez the online community ain't that dead.[/QUOTE]
I don't think I explained myself too well. I purposely ONLY want to play freelancer with him, that's kinda the whole point. The problem is that he can't join any servers, I can join his server fine, but he can't join his own, or any servers I host.
I guess I can see if he can join servers that aren't hosted by me or him.
Also, doesn't hamachi bypass the need for port forwarding in the first place?
Try gameranger, I spend hours trying to get borderlands (non steam) to work on mp. Forwarding ports, and using hamachi. Then i got gameranger and it was fixed in a few minutes.
[QUOTE=taipan;33785418]Try gameranger, I spend hours trying to get borderlands (non steam) to work on mp. Forwarding ports, and using hamachi. Then i got gameranger and it was fixed in a few minutes.[/QUOTE]
How's that supposed to help?
Don't use hamachi for the love of god.
Learn to port forward and host games properly.
Also tell your friend to run in administrator and compatibility mode old as shit games have trouble.
[QUOTE=moesislack;33870093]Don't use hamachi for the love of god.
Learn to port forward and host games properly.
Also tell your friend to run in administrator and compatibility mode old as shit games have trouble.[/QUOTE]
Or just install Virtual Box, make a Windows XP VM and run old games in it. I've gotten HL1, Quake and UT99 to run respectably when you have the VBox video driver installed.
[QUOTE=bohb;33871576]Or just install Virtual Box, make a Windows XP VM and run old games in it. I've gotten HL1, Quake and UT99 to run respectably when you have the VBox video driver installed.[/QUOTE]
As easy as that is for you and me some might find that a bit over their heads.
[QUOTE=Alpha 1-1;33865470]How's that supposed to help?[/QUOTE]
Well you have a problem and I provide a solution. Any questions?
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