26-10-2004 21:11									#1
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My buddy and I just dug up SMAC and were hoping to play some MP against each other over the Internet (TCP/IP) but we can't get it to work!

We are both using windows XP and have the v4.0 patch and win XP patch. We told our firewalls to unblock SMAC and set our Routers' DMZ to both our respective computers so there shouldn't be anything blocking us... when we go to log into a game, the 'joiner' finds the host's game and can join it, but then it waits for awhile and then fails to connect.

Does anyone have any idea what the problem may be? We really want to give this a try, but it is driving us crazy! I've been able to do it within my network here between my two computers (win 98 and win xp), but across the Internet it doesn't seem to work.

If anyone has any ideas, I would really appreciate it!!

Thanks,
Haesten

	27-10-2004 23:17									#2
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Turn off your firewalls for a monment. Try to connect SMAC. If you can connect then, it is your firewall....get to tweaking it. If not, don't know what to tell you, never successfully run a IP game.

	28-10-2004 00:59									#3
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Put ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1 in your ini file.

Your CPU is not recognized but after clicking OK it loads the older SMAC.

	28-10-2004 03:56									#4
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hmm... I do have the ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1 in my ini file (SMAC wouldn't even run without) and I've mucked about with my firewall to get it to work, but I haven't tried just turning it off completely, maybe that will work.

Thanks for the advice guys. If you have any other ideas, let me know!