Please HELP with Desynchronised games!

[zibi73]

Hello all m2tw multiplayer fans...

After a while of practicing on custom battles me and a friend decided to play 1vs1 on my home LAN.

The game goes ok for some minutes but after that it ALWAYS starts to become desynchronised and i get the message: WARNING: Game desynchronised...

Both computers have WinXP with Service Pack 3 installed...

I've configured the WinXP Firewall to excempt m2tw game, also opened 27750 port for TCP on the firewall.

The connections seems OK until a moment that it gets out of synch.

What is this problem? Is there a sollution to that?

Any suggestions? Couldn't find anything related to this problem anywhere in google!

Thx in advance for ur answers!

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Maybe you could try to shut the firewall off all together maybe?

[zibi73]

I have turned off completely XP firewalls and just plugged my 2 PCs on a switch.

That's it. Filesahring works, other games work but for Medieval2 patch 1.3 the games go desynchronised!

This must be a major bug. LAN and desynchronised? Could that be a 1.3 problem? Has anyone tried that too?

pls help!

[zibi73]

OK. Thanx all for ur time.

I've studied threads as much as i could it and i did close everything.

All processes that could possibly start downloading anything during the game were closed.



I unistalled all antiviruses.



I completely turned off the Firewalls.



I interrupted the internet connection and just plugged my 2 pcs on a switch.



I tried everything but i still get the games Desynchronised.



100Mbps of bandwidth just for this game and still it is not enough for it. It gets desynchronized.



The multi[player of this game is a total CRAP.



I wont spend any more time trying to fix this buggy multiplayer i already tweaked my stable system a lot.



Its too bad for a game like that to have no multiplayer. Im gonna leave it soon. There are many more serious games out there.





And just for the note...



I didn't get much support in here as well...

[zibi73]

OK i'll try once more but pls help. I think somethings wrong with the game's settings.



There are some network options in the .cfg file which (by default for me) currently are:



[network]

use_ip =

use_port = 27750



but i found in a thread that there also some hidden parameters regarding network:



use_ip
use_port
raise_priority
debug.simulation
debug.drop_every
debug.packet_delay_every <---?
debug.queue_delay_every <---?



Could this be the sollution? What values should i give to these parameters and what exactly do they do?

[Jochi Khan]

Hello zibi23

[network]

use_ip =

use_port = 27750

This entry in the preferences.cfg file.....

use_ip=
is for entering an internet network number. I used this for when I had a hamachi network set up.

use_port=27750
is the port that is open (by default) to allow the game to 'see' the pc. So you do not need to open ports.

I use windows XP SP2 and have had no problems running a LAN connection.

Are you running Zone Alarm firewall?
If so set it at ...Medium. I do NOT ever shut down my firewalls and I run two.

[zibi73]

I did some more testing with the game,



downgraded graphics so that game speed increases. As i imagined, this didnt solve the problem I still get the Warning: game desynchronised error...



This message appears at some point after the beginning of the battle and then usually every other minute or two.



Meanwhile i noticed that the game seemed ok and that units that i moved on one PC where also moving on the other. The game flow seemed ok



Is there any console command or anything i can use to suppress these system messages?



In general, where can i find a list of console commands of the game??



thx..

[Jochi Khan]

In general, where can i find a list of console commands of the game??

Start your game from the CD then select Options then select Keyboard settings.
It will show a list of keyboard commands.