[NEOEE] Does everybody need to port forward?
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:29 am
Hi guys!
Me and my friends are a group of willing players who had lots of difficulties in the past to get back to playing EE.
For some time we managed to play some EE on hamachi, not without technical difficulties, but time passed and we abandoned playing for various reasons.
Some months ago me and one of my friends, though, went totally nuts finding out this forum and the NeoEE project which is keeping alive this awesome game we used to spend our time on. So basically we were excited to try the lobby and stuff, but we are finding some difficulties.
First of all, me and another guy had the Intel driver problem, which I managed to resolve with an update and my other friend forcing the pc to use the Nvidia Graphics on his pc.
Then, another friend of mine could not run EE or EE:AOC vanilla, but with the NeoEE patch it worked out fine, so I guess it's not only about the multiplayer lobby great job!
By the way what we are struggling now is basically playing the multiplayer game. I offered to become the host and opened up my router ports (33334-33336 both TCP and UDP) since no one of them is willing to do so (some of them are ... technically impaired or do not have access to the router usr/psw). So I thought that with me hosting the game and everyone joining in my room it would have been fine.
Turns out it... isn't. When we join the lobby I'm hosting everything is fine, I get the ping from everyone of them. But when we start the game, next to their names it appears the RIP sign and the game does not start at all.
Since everyone gets crashes otherwise, basically NeoEE is our last hope. So what I pretty much figured out is this:
Does everyone need to port forward the 33334-33336 range or is it just the host?
What could be the problem if not so?
Thanks a lot for your help guys, anyway, you helped us indirectly so many times
EDIT: Oooohh snap. Just read about the NHT. But it's only for EEC, right? So I guess it does not affect AOC...
Me and my friends are a group of willing players who had lots of difficulties in the past to get back to playing EE.
For some time we managed to play some EE on hamachi, not without technical difficulties, but time passed and we abandoned playing for various reasons.
Some months ago me and one of my friends, though, went totally nuts finding out this forum and the NeoEE project which is keeping alive this awesome game we used to spend our time on. So basically we were excited to try the lobby and stuff, but we are finding some difficulties.
First of all, me and another guy had the Intel driver problem, which I managed to resolve with an update and my other friend forcing the pc to use the Nvidia Graphics on his pc.
Then, another friend of mine could not run EE or EE:AOC vanilla, but with the NeoEE patch it worked out fine, so I guess it's not only about the multiplayer lobby great job!
By the way what we are struggling now is basically playing the multiplayer game. I offered to become the host and opened up my router ports (33334-33336 both TCP and UDP) since no one of them is willing to do so (some of them are ... technically impaired or do not have access to the router usr/psw). So I thought that with me hosting the game and everyone joining in my room it would have been fine.
Turns out it... isn't. When we join the lobby I'm hosting everything is fine, I get the ping from everyone of them. But when we start the game, next to their names it appears the RIP sign and the game does not start at all.
Since everyone gets crashes otherwise, basically NeoEE is our last hope. So what I pretty much figured out is this:
Does everyone need to port forward the 33334-33336 range or is it just the host?
What could be the problem if not so?
Thanks a lot for your help guys, anyway, you helped us indirectly so many times
EDIT: Oooohh snap. Just read about the NHT. But it's only for EEC, right? So I guess it does not affect AOC...