Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations

Hello, I start Armada 2 with FO (B:2.03) same weeks ago.

Now I persuade a friend to instal the game - for a little multiplayer game ICP/IP -direct ip (no gamespy),... but we always have out of sync message and the games becomes unplayable because both play a "own" game...

we have tried with:
2 vs 2 (Player&Player vs. NPC&NPC) also
1on1 (Player vs. Player) - work a bit longer, but later  sync msg.

My Q. is - how can I configurate the Netsetting or optimize?

Welcome to the forums. Now that used to happen when you used the tachyon scan on the outposts and starbases but that was fixed. Fleet ops is much better about that then the origional game. I can't think of anything else that could cause that problem.

Welcome to the forums

Hm, make sure you both have fixed ip adresses defined like 192.168.0.X range and submask set to 255.255.255.0

DOCa Cola

Of course  :wacko:  :fish:  

First, Thanks alot for your quick answer. I contact my friend and we try out

@ DOCa Cola - u mean Lan or? but we play online.

yea, i meant lan, online is not nearly not optimizable cause thats related to your isp. the other main reason could be a problem with your computer itself, make sure if you or your friend has a router that it is probably configured to work with armada.

DOCa Cola

I think we make sure that all ports they are given in the "NetHelp.txt"

"DirectPlay 8 Ports

2300..2400 UDP inbound and outbound
6073           TCP inbound and outbound"

Maybey of they where in there routers DMZ...

hm? pleace explane (also thx for answer)

So,

We test the game with a other Player (also DSL) without router. First time with some NPCs - but the sync message come after some minutes - so,... it cant be the tachyon scan bug, I think.

Is there a way to host dedicated server?

Nope, just make sure you have all the patches, im sure Doca has all the technical answers and he can prolly fix.

I instal. Armada2 (ger. version), Fleet Operations Version Beta 2 ("The official Armada II 1.1 patch is included in this package, you don't have to install it seperatly."), then Fleet Operations Patch Version Beta 2 Patch 2 (2.03), then Fleet Operations Mutimedia Pack Version 1 and Fleet Operations Language Pack (choose german)

 

DMZ is the De-Miltarized Zone, its where you are essentialy outside ur routers fire wall... As long as you have the latest windows patches and an antivirus you should be okay to be in. You need to check ur router settings to change it.

Well I dont recall hearing that you didnt need to install the 1.1 patch. Did anyone else install the patch on the unpatched game before installing the mod or am I the only idiot?

you don't need an armada preinstall before installing fleetops

I installed this mod about 5 months ago so give me a break if my memory is a lil off, do you need to install the official patch is what I want to know.

No, the Armada II patch is included in the FleetOps installer.

Edit: Grammar corrected.

Okey dokey.

My CD is 1.1 so iether way it wouldent hurt me.

I doubt it could hurt anyway.  

yea, the 1.1 cd was the big problem with beta 1.0 as we haven't had one so wrong files were copied of the cd...that were times ;) good they are over

DOCa Cola

Yes. FO gets more bug free by the day.

Well, i never played beta 1 with my current a2 cd.

i got the same problem, yesterday. i played with someone and just got out of sync. could it be a problem with the transferrate? cause the host had a 56k an i got dsl broadband connection(?).

and beside that, a strange thing is.. i cant host a game, and get a message like "u canīt host, cause gamespy dont know this game" :blink: