UFO:Alien Invasion

Technical support => Feature Requests => Topic started by: Lotok on September 28, 2008, 09:25:31 pm

Title: Multiplayer Problems
Post by: Lotok on September 28, 2008, 09:25:31 pm

Has anyone experienced issues where they cannot play mp games. If i try to enter a MP game i just get punted back to the main menu. Happening on 2.3 dev.

Any suggestions?

cheers folks.

Title: Re: Multiplayer Problems
Post by: Destructavator on September 29, 2008, 01:12:13 am

2.3 Dev?  I'm not a coder, but I'd imagine that if you were trying to play multiplayer with a Development snapshot, SVN, pre-built, or otherwise, that it would *not* be compatible with a stable release server, given the substantial changes in 2.3 since 2.2.1 was released.  I could be wrong, but I think you would need to have another player or server running the exact same build version for it to have any chance of working.

Assuming I'm correct, and I heard you right, I would recommend using only a stable release (one from the sourceforge download page) for multiplayer.

Title: Re: Multiplayer Problems
Post by: Lotok on September 29, 2008, 07:07:51 am

Its my server, both players and server are running the same version. latest Windows release.

Title: Re: Multiplayer Problems
Post by: Mattn on September 29, 2008, 08:00:52 am

any console output?

Title: Re: Multiplayer Problems
Post by: Lotok on September 29, 2008, 01:19:36 pm

I will double check when I get home but pretty sure it was along the lines of

unable to connect to <ip>

The server has Quake2 ports open, and so does the clients, infact without this being done the client wont even see the hosted game.
I have tried disabling Windows firewall as well to be sure it does not block the game.

Anything else that I may not be considering?

Thanks for your help.

Title: Re: Multiplayer Problems
Post by: Mattn on September 29, 2008, 07:10:21 pm

we are not using udp - but tcp - keep that in mind.

also your server should be shown at http://ufoai.ninex.info/ufo/serverlist.txt - otherwise you should double check your fw settings

Title: Re: Multiplayer Problems
Post by: Lotok on September 29, 2008, 08:53:01 pm

It shows on the server list. Will check if i left it set to UDP and let you know

cheers for the help.

Title: Re: Multiplayer Problems
Post by: Lotok on September 29, 2008, 09:25:17 pm

hmm, The error was -

ERROR: Server is not reachable

I have checked that server and clients use TCP.
Tried Disabling the firewall on both machines.
Checked machines all show on the server list txt file.
made sure the server is set to sv_public 1


I dameware on to the server from the client machine so connectivity isnt an issue.

Title: Re: Multiplayer Problems
Post by: Mattn on September 30, 2008, 08:36:31 am

i will check this asap - will let you know about changes

Title: Re: Multiplayer Problems
Post by: Mattn on October 15, 2008, 08:32:13 pm

i've checked multiplayer with current trunk- and it works - so it must be something on your side.

Title: Re: Multiplayer Problems
Post by: Lotok on October 16, 2008, 12:27:52 pm

Ok thanks, will need to work it out from this end then.
Cant think what though...