Okay, so I picked up BFME2 from Best Buy a few days ago and put it on my Vista laptop. I have to say, I'm impressed with the game, except for the multiplayer. My friend has an XP laptop and he also as BFME2. The first time we tried playing together, something really wierd happened. I've never seen it before. Anyway, I couldn't see anyone else in the chat room or any other games, yet he could see me and my games, except he couldn't join them.
So we messed around with the settings, we tried disabling firewall, running in admin/compat and all that stuff. We forwarded the ports, and turned off our router firewall temporarily. We finally go the idea to create an ad hoc network and it worked first time. What I want to know is why it didn't work when we were connected via the router, as I like staying with the router. It's a pain to get us both on the ad hoc network each time.
Can anyone please explain or tell me how to fix this?
ZeratuelX
So we messed around with the settings, we tried disabling firewall, running in admin/compat and all that stuff. We forwarded the ports, and turned off our router firewall temporarily. We finally go the idea to create an ad hoc network and it worked first time. What I want to know is why it didn't work when we were connected via the router, as I like staying with the router. It's a pain to get us both on the ad hoc network each time.
Can anyone please explain or tell me how to fix this?
ZeratuelX
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell XPS 420
- CPU
- Dual Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3.0 GHz
- Motherboard
- ACPI x86
- Memory
- 4GB
- Graphics card(s)
- nVidia GeForce 8800 GT
- Sound Card
- IDT High Definition Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- SyncMaster 2493HM Digital 24" Widescreen
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 x 1200
- Hard Drives
- Dual Western Digital 500GB Disk Drives
- Mouse
- Logitech G5 Gaming Mouse
- Keyboard
- Logitech G11 Gaming Keyboard
- Internet Speed
- 6k KB/s DL, 700 KB/s UP