Tcp Ip?

[ColdPrecision]

Anyway to play this game via Direct TCP / IP ?
I Have the game and the CD key, but I really don't want install Gamespy and all the adware that comes along with it.
Everywhere I look it says the game supports TCP IP play, but no such option under the Multi player screen :(

Is there any mod or App that enables MPlay through a direct TCP IP connection?
Thanks for any help.

[CBR]

You dont need to install GameSpy Arcade to play online. All you have to do is login from the game. GameSpy Arcade just enables you to chat and look for hosted games without starting up MTW.

Programs like Hamachi might enable you to play MTW as it creates a virtual LAN. But there is really no need for it.


CBR

[ColdPrecision]

thanks bro.
Can i have a link to Hamachi pls?

[CBR]

http://www.hamachi.cc/


CBR

[Tomisama]

Programs like Hamachi might enable you to play MTW as it creates a virtual LAN. But there is really no need for it.

Humm.

A LAN party when we do need it

Has this ever been tryed?

[Jochi Khan]

Yes Tomi and it works.

[TosaInu]

That's nice, if only the comforting thought of having a backup.

It will be great to work on MP mods: coincidental GameSpy glitch or is something wrong in the code?

But it's limited to 8 players? And has no chatlobby. Perhaps an IRC channel should be used too?

[Jochi Khan]

The limit is 16 players to each Network, so 16 players can log on to the one Network and the chat lobby is there just like the Game lobby.

Very much like the FakeServer with STW but players need to know the name and password for the Network and have downloaded their own Hamachi. Very straightforward.

[Tomisama]

Hamachi is pretty cool

http://www.hamachi.cc/

And is the easiest thing I ever signed up for. All you need is a Network Name, that’s it!

The Hamachi server links the networks members together, basically serving the same purpose as GameSpy. And of course the peer to peer network established is prone to the same weaknesses as when GameSpy does it.

And for all of the complaints about GS and lag, here is the truth regarding that network situation. I found this on a Czech game site talking about Hamachi and LAN networking.

“The transfer speed in the network directly depends on the quality of Internet connection of every individual PC, i.e. if you play some game with several users, the speed is limited by the slowest individual PC connection in the network, but that is how it works in the standard LAN.”

http://eng.hamachi.cz/index.php?lang=cze&page=home

I always knew this was true, but it is nice to be confirmed

[|Heerbann|_Luculus]

We, Heerbann and Elite have tried using hamachi to play M2TW with LAN the first day it came out in November 2006, because there had been log in problems with gamespy.
But we all had a slow connection speed which caused lags, although we all had good hardware and fast connections.

So we disliked to play LAN. It is just too slow imo.

[Stoicblitzer]

RTK could not get hamachi to work on mtw2.

[|Heerbann|_Di3Hard]

RTK could not get hamachi to work on mtw2.

You must edit an ini file. I forgot the name and I don't have mtw2 anymore. There was a section network in the file, you had to input your hamachi IP (e.g. 5.32.....) And then restart the game and it works.

[|Heerbann|_Luculus]

Hello Stoicblitzer,

I can explain it:

In the Medieval II Total War main folder there is a file called

medieval2.preference.cfg

Open it with the regular Windows editor for e.g..

In the middle of the text is a headline [network]

I paste here that part:

[network]
use_ip =
use_port = 27750

You have to add Your IP-address and then save and close the file.

like this:


[network]
use_ip = 12.123.12.123
use_port = 27750


Then hamachi will work and You can play M2TW with LAN.

But also important to know is that You must change it again if You want to play multiplayer with gamespy. So You have to delete the IP-adress in this folder.


I hope this will help You.


|Heerbann|_Luculus




Hmmm.... btw.... I wonder why my signature with the KoV-winner award-pictue does not work in my profile... like my clannie Di3hard got it.

[Stoicblitzer]

thanks, luculus. i also saw this on our forum. appreciate it.


RTKFaaris

[|Heerbann|_Luculus]

My pleasure m8.

The first day M2TW came out, gs still did not work, so we tried to use hamachi with Elite and played mp via LAN.

But we felt it too slow.

Please tell me if You make better experience with it.