Multiplayer OOS Error (Out of Sync)

[Frisbie]

Dear, CIV IV Fanatics

I am trying to play a multiplayer game of CIV IV and/or CIV IV BTS. My friend and I choose to play us two v.s. all computer players. We use GameRanger to play the online multiplayer.

During gameplay, say about 30 - 50 turns in, we get the inevitable OOS Out of Sync Error. It pops up directly on the map screen in red and flashes. Upon saving and reloading we can play about 1 - 10 turns until it pops up again.

I have cable internet with a Linksys router attached to the modem. My friend uses a Windstream Modem/Wireless (combined unit) for DSL.

What can we do to stop this from happening? Port forwarding? Any advice would be great. I can also provide more information if needed. Thanks!

Long time CIV player,

Brad Frisbie
mtbikepatrol@comcast.net

 

[Crispy007]

My friend and I play that way for all our games and we always had OOS, then we tried the K-mod and have been OOS free ever since. We use direct IP rather then game ranger as it doesn't support the mods.

See the mod http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=407049

the AI is way better in the mod compared to vanilla, meaning we used to win on Monarch more or less every game, now we are challenged on Prince.

 

[Frisbie]

Thank you soo much. This is great! So let me get this straight. My friend and I should obviously download the CIV IV BTS patches but then add this last patch u linked to the thread? Thanks for posting this. We'll be playing again in no time! Seriously, thank you.

 

[Crispy007]

yes you need BTS 3.19 then the mod. and your welcome but the real props go to all the modders, Karadoc for the kmod and all the others upon whose work he built

 

[Frisbie]

I finally download the K-Mod. Cut and pasted it directly into the BTS Mod folder. Then, when I start the game, I loaded the mod. It looked as if everything went smoothly. So, as long as my friend does that same thing we should be good to go? We'll also play b direct IP from now on. And I can't figure out how to make a shortcut to the K-Mod. I have to load it every time?

 

[mjnevin]

Hoping someone will see this post even if the thread is old...

So I'm getting a similar OOS error a coupla hours into Gameranger games through Steam with a friend (playing Civ IV BtS). I'm playing on Windows 7 64x but he's on Mac OS 10.5.8, so unfortunately K-Mod doesn't work for him. Are there any cross platform mods that fix or lessen OOSes? Any viable solutions at all??

I've trolled forums here a lot and have yet to find any solution besides my friend installing BtS through wineskin which is a lot of effort just to use K-Mod.

Thanks for any help!

 

[thekennanator]

My wife and I play thru steam. We only started getting OOS messages about 3 weeks ago, now we can't play for longer than a half hour without it crashing the game.

Normally, we just reset, but it really is getting unplayable.

We have the pure vanilla version from Steam, with BTS running Next War (since its packaged with the game we figure it should be stable).

Help...

 

[VirtualMark]

Hi, I'm also getting OOS errors when playing my friend. We both have the latest patch, both cleared the cache folder and started the game with shift several times... no fix! We've both reinstalled, the issue still persists.

It's really bad that this error is still around, seeing as there's posts here going back several years. Is anyone ever going to patch this?

In the meantime, are there any fixes? I don't really want to use a mod as that'll change the game, whereas I'm happy with the way it plays.