problems starting MP game

[pepijn83]

Hello everyone!

I hope someone could help me please: I'm having great troubles with Conquests when attempting to play a multiplayer game. I've read all the stuff about opening the ports and all, and I'm pretty sure that's not the problem.

What happens is when I click on Multiplayer in the startup screen I can choose between Internet, LAN etcetera. When I click on one of these, the game says for about half a second "Trying to connect to Gamespy, please wait 120 seconds" or something like that. Then suddenly this disappears and the game totally freezes. Well actually the entire computer freezes and I need to turn it off the "hard way" (e.g. press the on/off button for ten seconds).

I hope someone can tell me what the problem is!

 

[pepijn83]

Well, it seems as if nobody has an answer to my question
I guess I'll just won't be able to play multiplayer games then...

 

[catmat]

Hi, saw your post, I had a similar problem on different machines with CIV3 PTW , on selecting a multiplayer game it would freeze, but would be ok if the internet was disconnected, it turned out to be a problem with uPNP (universal plug and play) the system for software to automatically arrange it's own firewall settings. I found the solution to my problem on this site, but it did take me ages to find it in the forums so I thought I'd post it again...

I had to log onto my router and disable automatic uPNP. However if you don't have a router / wireless access point etc etc this wont apply to you...

 

[pepijn83]

Thanx for answering! The only problem is, I don't have a router nor a wireless access point so I guess it won't work for me... but thnx anyway!