Hi! New to the forums, been playing since the release of Civ2 ..

but, I got problems running a civ4 MP game.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-2/955192/grr.JPG

I can connect to games but easily before the game has been fully loaded, I'll already be *outside* the game because of this. It's FRUSTRATING as it only started to do this today and I can't play any game at all now, was working just fine yesterday.

edit : I run a win xp box with a cable modem. No firewall and even it was on, I added the civ4 ports to the exception list.

Anybody with a solution?

Desperate Addict

still got the problem and haven't found a fix =( seem to be the only one.:cry:

Dunno if this will help/work, but have you disabled the "qos packet scheduler" in your network card settings? Usually that is responsible for network dropouts.

Thanks, gonna try that and report in later.

still getting the error :s

sigh, this is getting really frustrating.

anyone find a fix!?

Hi guys. I just sent this bugreport to the 2kGames support (+dxdiag and msinfo dumps). This info might help you too.


Hi

I'm having trouble setting up a LAN game in Civilization 4. When I click on New Game, a bunch of error messages pop up, saying:

The network socket could not be created.
The network socket encountered an error and was closed. Disconnected.
Unable to start the messaging engine.

Using google, I found that other people have the same problem. One of them was able to work around the problem by changing from a dynamically allocated IP address to a statically allocated one.

I tried changing from my dynamically allocated address:
ip: 82.211.200.206
subnet mask: 255.255.254.0

to an arbitrary new address in the same range, this time statically allocated:
ip: 82.211.200.253
subnet mask: 255.255.254.0

First I checked that noone else was using that address, of course. But to no avail - I started Civ4 again, tried to host a LAN game, but still the same errors. Then I switched to this address:
ip: 192.168.1.206
subnet mask: 255.255.255.0

This time I was actually able to host a LAN game!
Pretty useless since noone else on my network uses this an address in this range.
Also, I was unable to use the internet at the same time, since our gateway etc. _must_ use an 82.211.200.something address.
It is therefore not a suitable workaround for the problem. A real bugfix is needed.
It seems that Civ4 disallows certain combinations of ip addresses/subnet masks.
Accoring to the game itself, I'm using version 1.5.2.1736 (42422) of Civilization 4.

The Civ4 network log dumped when trying the above contains the following:
[4432.406] DBG: HOSTING a MULTIPLAYER, NEW, LAN game!
[4432.421] ERR: Could not find available local IP!!
[4432.421] ERR: SockMgrThread encountered a socket error
[4433.437] ERR: Network socket creation failed!!
[4438.406] WRN: Disconnecting from entire Peer Network!

The init log contains the following:
[4420.593] DBG: CIV Init
[4420.593] VERSION: App: C:\Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Civilization4.exe
[4420.593] VERSION: Build: Thu Dec 22 04:17:25 2005
[4420.593] VERSION: 1.5.2.1736 (42422)
[4420.593] VERSION: Mod Loaded: none
[4420.796] DBG: FILE Cat Init
[4421.078] DBG: NOT Using XML cache, failed to find crc.dat file
[4421.078] DBG: Game Init
[4421.093] DBG: Multiplayer Init BEGIN
[4421.187] DBG: Multiplayer Init END
[4421.187] DBG: Audio Init
[4421.828] DBG: ArtFileMgr Init
[4421.843] DBG: Python Init
[4426.906] VERSION: CIV Version: 0
[4426.906] VERSION: Save Version: 102
[4426.906] DBG: Input Init
[4426.921] DBG: Engine Init
[4426.921] DBG: Checking available screen resolution
[4427.046] DBG: Validating screen resolution
[4427.046] DBG: Creating rendererer
[4428.171] DBG: Engine: renderer Initialized
[4428.187] DBG: Engine: Shaders Initialized
[4428.343] DBG: Engine: Scene Lights Initialized
[4428.359] DBG: Music Start
[4428.359] DBG: Font Init
[4428.390] DBG: Total Frame MS: 7962.0 FPS: 000 Min:000 Max:000 Avg:000 SampleFilter:10.000000
Time : Ave : Min% : Max% : Num : Profile Name
-----------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------
[4428.406] DBG: Begin MenuManager
[4438.109] ERR: CIV Init FAILED, exiting

Sincerely, Martin