Zero Hour Hosting

[TimmaahWocks 0]

Alright guys... ive searched the forum for an answer and only found out that people had this problem with generals but not with zero hour... so heres the problem:

 

Whenever i host a game nobody can ever see it, ive opened all the ports in my router correctly and closed xp firewall and made exceptions for the xp firewall too... i also have closed any anti-virus firewall programs or anything which would prevent me doing so.

 

I can join peoples games fine though and ive also tried the port override function.. there doesnt seem to be an answer to this but if someone has any suggestions id appreciate it.

 

Oh.. im on a 6mbit dsl connection and have an

amd xp 2200+

xp sp2

768mb ram

9800 pro 128mb ram

 

if that helps.. another thing which may be an issue is that in my router options i have the option to create a virtual server.. and in order to host another game i had to open this virtual server, basically it allowed the game to broadcast my wan ip instead of my lan.. i was probably going to try this with zero hour but wasnt sure what port id need to use

 

any help would be greatly appreciated

[TimmaahWocks 0]

hate to double post but i found the problem.. i have the cencored version of generals.. thanks to the damn german politicians.. and for some reason i can join games even if the host is using a different version but cant host them...

 

thanks though!

[Guest MadBadger]

wow.... random....

 

Yer the Chinese had a problem with the version that was released there before it was taken off the shelves. Meh. Bad luck mate buy a copy of e-bay.co.uk

 

Also up in the top right of your post theres an edit button no need to DP

[TimmaahWocks 0]

seems to be another problem... a friend of mine has uk version and when he tries to play multiplayer with more than 2 people it always screws up by him.. hes turned off firewall and that stuff any ideas ?

 

p.s. hes also got the problem where people cant see the game he hosts

[Guest MadBadger]

Id guess at the fact he dosnt have the right version. Some time its just a general EA screw up thou

 

tell him to turn all background stuff off like Anti-Virus and windows firewall and try. If not re-install get new drivers for vid cards ect and try again.

 

He using Dial-up? i had bare probs with that.

[TimmaahWocks 0]

ai ea lovse screwing stuff up.. wont go into that though as im sure enough people on this forum cover up the screw-ups they do

 

 

ai hes got that all turned off.. hes reinstalled now too

 

not sure what updating video card drivers would do though since it seems to be a connection problem when he plays with more than 1 player

[Guest MadBadger]

Meh, i cant play BF2 cos of me vid card and you never know

 

but hell see what happends

[TimmaahWocks 0]

ok i lied.. this is annoying me.. its not the german version thing

 

i was able to get people to join my game once.. but my friends cant see my game.. i have no idea what is doing this.. the only idea left that i have is opening virtual servers on all the ports that zh requires..

 

anyone got any tips or something ?

[TheBlackOut 6]

Id guess at the fact he dosnt have the right version. Some time its just a general EA screw up thou

 

tell him to turn all background stuff off like Anti-Virus and windows firewall and try. If not re-install get new drivers for vid cards ect and try again.

 

He using Dial-up? i had bare probs with that.

 

Hmm, just to let you know EA doesn't host the servers.

[F15pilotX 4]

Who does??? Is it the same kind of thing as Renegade or what? :?

[Alphabear 11]

gamespy does i beleive

[F15pilotX 4]

Oh....well, not suprising, I guess