My friend and I are trying to play Civ III multiplayer. I can play fine, but he cant even connect to a game.
When he clicks on multiplayer from the main menu and selects LAN or internet, he gets the usual attempting to connect to game spy box. Now this is where things start to mess up. Sometimes it carshes here, and sometimes he actually makes it to the lobby screen.
Every time it crashes the music will start repeating, then be fine, the repeat again, etc until the game freezes. If he is able to get to the lobby, no games appear and the mouse overs for the buttons do not work (neither does clicking the buttons).
I have changes settings on his router including opening the ports, enabling UPnP, making him the DMA, and removing the router and trying it with his computer directly connected to the cable modem. Every time it was the same result.
Also of note i the fact that other games such as Rise of Nations did the same thing (it uses gamespy too), but Neverwinter Nights (which uses gamespy) worked fine. The Rise of Nations problem was identical, though.
I was wondering if anyone has come across similar issues with their game or has a suggestion for us.
When he clicks on multiplayer from the main menu and selects LAN or internet, he gets the usual attempting to connect to game spy box. Now this is where things start to mess up. Sometimes it carshes here, and sometimes he actually makes it to the lobby screen.
Every time it crashes the music will start repeating, then be fine, the repeat again, etc until the game freezes. If he is able to get to the lobby, no games appear and the mouse overs for the buttons do not work (neither does clicking the buttons).
I have changes settings on his router including opening the ports, enabling UPnP, making him the DMA, and removing the router and trying it with his computer directly connected to the cable modem. Every time it was the same result.
Also of note i the fact that other games such as Rise of Nations did the same thing (it uses gamespy too), but Neverwinter Nights (which uses gamespy) worked fine. The Rise of Nations problem was identical, though.
I was wondering if anyone has come across similar issues with their game or has a suggestion for us.
