Posted February 16, 2012
Hey folks, long time lurker, first time poster.
Recently, I purchased the LOTR pack here on the site, and saw that some of the users were having successful multi-player matches while using the GameRanger service. This evening, a friend and myself tried to get a game running and we were running into hordes of problems and was wondering if any of you in the community had been successful starting a game.
To preface this, both of our computers had all necessary ports forwarded, firewalls disabled, and so forth. We even went so far as to forward the ports necessary for the LOTR game itself along side Gameranger. When I would host, my friend would be in my game lobby, and when I initialized the game, LOTR2 would launch automatically, and he would be able to see my game. Unfortunately, he would never be able to join. It would time out consistently every time. When HE would host, I would be continually stuck in the 'Waiting for Host' Loop, and my game would never initialize. We both have the same version of the game, the same operating system (win7 64x) and reasonably fast internet connections. We even brought in another friend to eliminate variables between our two connections, but to no avail. If anyone has any success stories with this game, I'd love to hear them, I'm anxious to play it.
TL;DR How can you arrange a successful multiplayer connection through Game-Ranger?
Recently, I purchased the LOTR pack here on the site, and saw that some of the users were having successful multi-player matches while using the GameRanger service. This evening, a friend and myself tried to get a game running and we were running into hordes of problems and was wondering if any of you in the community had been successful starting a game.
To preface this, both of our computers had all necessary ports forwarded, firewalls disabled, and so forth. We even went so far as to forward the ports necessary for the LOTR game itself along side Gameranger. When I would host, my friend would be in my game lobby, and when I initialized the game, LOTR2 would launch automatically, and he would be able to see my game. Unfortunately, he would never be able to join. It would time out consistently every time. When HE would host, I would be continually stuck in the 'Waiting for Host' Loop, and my game would never initialize. We both have the same version of the game, the same operating system (win7 64x) and reasonably fast internet connections. We even brought in another friend to eliminate variables between our two connections, but to no avail. If anyone has any success stories with this game, I'd love to hear them, I'm anxious to play it.
TL;DR How can you arrange a successful multiplayer connection through Game-Ranger?
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