hello all!!!
ok, me and my friend love the old game, Total annihilation.
I have recnetly got a router and now i am sharing 3 of my computers.
for some reason when i try to find his game in a lobby connecting by ip address it doesn't come up....
sometimes it does, when it does we i cannot enter..
we had tried may times, including many restarts. We decided to try playing on gamespy..
he hosted a room and i joined it, we went to run the game and got this error
"connection to directplay lobby timed out"
i was thinking this was because of the router, i found that some ports needed opening for the game to run online. (btw, he was hosting, i was connecting to it)
i found this:
http://www.tafansite.com/hwgn/articles.php?articleID=10
i tried what is says to open with the control pannel that came with my router.
a screenshot
well after i applied these changes nothing worked, and btw, and added some of the other options as well (they were selectable by the router, i think it was because of gamespy. It allowed me to select total annihilation and open the ports)
well...
did i do something wrong?..
i really need help as me and my bud love playing the game, but because of this pesky router nothing works.
i have desabled the firewall as well