Okay myself and six other friends made plans to play through IWD2 together. Slight problem though. I can't join the game. No matter what I do to my Norton Firewall, I just can't join *any* None of us are patched and we made sure to have the same frame rate. NWN works fine online, what's the deal with IWD 2? Someone help please! [img]graemlins/1pissed.gif[/img]

Without knowing what steps you've taken so far, try disabling Norton as a test only to see if that is blocking your traffic. If you can connect with Norton disabled - it the FW, if not will need to try something else.

Tried that already. Disabling the firewall *doesn't* help. I tried that with NWN. I had to give it *permission* I've done the same thing with IWD2, but no luck. :(

ok ...
open a DOS console then type:
ping ip address

to see if you can reach the server

after that try:
tracert ip address

to follow the route.

Since the FW is not the problem, it's a network thing. These tests will determine if the problem is at the TCP/IP level or the IWD level.

If the above works the problem is with IWD, and I haven't played with the multi part of. Maybe over the weekend. PM me if you want to set up a trouble shoot session.

[ 11-28-2002, 06:06 AM: Message edited by: Night Stalker ]

Are u playing an IP game or thru a 3rd part medium i.e. Gamespy

This may just be a typo in your first post, but you and SIX OTHER players can not ALL join at the same time. IWD2 only supports six TOTAL players.

If that is just a typo, my apologies.

Yes that was a typo and I accept your apology. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
when I did this I got the message: Unknown host IP
When I did this I got the message: unable to resolve target system ip i'm just taking an educated guess in deciding neither message is *anything* good. :rolleyes: So how do I *fix* it? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I still don't understand why NWN works perfectly online, (apart from not being able to *host* games) but IWD doesn't work at all. It *has* to be the firewall. My guess is that the game uses another application which the firewall hasn't given permission to yet. And yes I am using gamespy.

[ 11-29-2002, 04:33 PM: Message edited by: Redblueflare ]

Well Gamespy has been acting really stupid lately you know. For the last week I can't get into any games at all on the IWD2 forum. I pity the people who pay for that shit but yeah, perhaps you simply need to wait it out? GS goes down alot but lately it's been insane - never working properly, rooms not appearing. ppl not getting into games etc.

Redblueflare,

What operating system are you running? A friend tried connecting to a mplayer game we were playing today and she had NO luck. She was running Win XP home edition.

Ok, for ping you should have seen something like this ...

</font><blockquote>code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">

C:\&gt;ping www.comcast.com

Pinging www.comcast.com [164.109.174.7] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 164.109.174.7: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=109
Reply from 164.109.174.7: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=109
Reply from 164.109.174.7: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=109
Reply from 164.109.174.7: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=109

Ping statistics for 164.109.174.7:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 20ms, Maximum = 23ms, Average = 21ms

C:\&gt;</pre>[/QUOTE]if it succeded ....
useing just the IP it should have been ....
</font><blockquote>code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">C:\&gt;ping 164.109.174.7

Pinging 164.109.174.7 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 164.109.174.7: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=109
Reply from 164.109.174.7: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=109
Reply from 164.109.174.7: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=109
Reply from 164.109.174.7: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=109

Ping statistics for 164.109.174.7:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 21ms, Maximum = 25ms, Average = 23ms

C:\&gt;</pre>[/QUOTE]if it failed using just the IP
invalid IP first, private IP second, valid but not use IP last
</font><blockquote>code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">C:\&gt;ping 123.345.234.312
Ping request could not find host 123.345.234.312. Please check the name and try
again.

C:\&gt;ping 10.0.0.2

Pinging 10.0.0.2 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 10.0.0.2:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

C:\&gt;ping 206.255.255.1

Pinging 206.255.255.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 206.255.255.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

C:\&gt;</pre>[/QUOTE]The failure suggests you used an invalid IP or a host name (host.somedomain.something) that could not be resolved. Check you friends address. Use the IP number if possible. Your friend may need to configure his FW to allow incoming connections. He will have to give you his PUBLIC IP - the one reported to the world by his FW, not the one his computer says it is using.
This is not IWD II, it's merely a network thing.

[ 11-30-2002, 01:54 PM: Message edited by: Night Stalker ]