When starting a direct ip connection with a friend, after the 1-2 turns a red notice appears on the screen. It says that we are out of sync :((( Could anyone help me to solve this problem pls.??? We are playing CivIV Warlords Total Realism Mod 2.0

direct IP only works on short distances

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Direct IP works over any distance. I play regularly with a New Zealander on the other side of the world.

We are 6 klm. away from each other, we have fast i-net connections... We had no problems while playing on the original version of Civ IV. So, what do you think is the problem?

Yozo, do you have the latest Civ patch?
I used to get "out of sync" a lot in 1.0, but it dissappeared when I got one of the later patches.

As I said we play Civilization IV: Warlords - Total Realism Mod 2.0. My ip address is floating - could this be the problem???

I'm not sure, I don't think that should cause problems. But what I meant was, make sure both of you have version 2.08 of Warlords.

Besides, in my experience you can often fix out of synched games by reconnecting.

As I said we play Civilization IV: Warlords - Total Realism Mod 2.0. My ip address is floating - could this be the problem???

It should not change while your internet connection is in use (I assume you mean your ISP-designated-via-DHCP IP address is dynamically assigned), so no.