Problems with Multiplayer

[CheeseMan]

I posted this in the Icewind Dale forum last night, but as there is hardly anyone in there and this pertains to all IWD and BG Games I'm going to ask in here:


For the past 3 1/2 hours I've been trying to play a multi-player game with my friend using GameSpy Arcade. I can't host a game because i have a firewall on my computer and whenever i tried to join a game it told me that it couldn't connect. I tried everything from uninstalling HOW to installing the latest patch, to moving the directories around, and nothing worked. I was just wondering if anyone else has run into this problem and knows how to fix it. Right now I'm pretty sure that it's my firewall so if anyone knows how to get around it that would be very helpful.

Thanks.

[Cloudbringer]

Try setting your firewall to low protection levels and plug in the ip addresses of the people you are playing with as 'trusted' address. That's about all I can suggest.

[CheeseMan]

how do you adjust the firewall?

[Cloudbringer]

Open it up and find the settings for 'trusted addresses' or something like that. Depending on what you are using it will also have settings for high, medium or low security levels. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[andrewas]

If its a hardware firewall check your manauals and open up the ports required for the game, which you can usualy find in the readme. Gamespy also requires a few ports open, cant remember which but gamespy documentation should cover it.

A software firewall should ask you if you want to allow the connection the first time you try it, after that you can usualy find it under a programs tab or somesuch.