Need LAN Help!

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Hey all, this is my current predicament. Me and one of my friends play BGII all the time, except it seems that fate never wants it to work, because there always arise problems that only seem to exist simply to stop us from playing BGII.

So now, the current problem is that the LAN is not working for BGII. Here's how I wanted the LAN to be setup. My computer runs of a wireless connection from Linksys. I have a lan cable directly connecting the computers. So I managed to get it so that they can share files and there is somewhat of a lan setup.

However, the other computer can never use the internet, even though I had it setup like last time (before I reformatted my computer) where it could use the internet. You see, me and him used to use Hamachi to set up a fake LAN so we could play together, and that worked. But Hamachi requires an internet connection to get connected, and the other computer can't access it.


If there's a way, can someone tell me how to get the LAN working? Whenever I try to do LAN in game, we both choose TCP/IP as the connection method. But we don't have an IP address to put in. Do you know of a way I can find the IP address that actually allows him to connect to my game. Either that, or to get the other computer to use the internet. Any other methods to get the LAN for BGII working would be much appreciated. Thanks.

 

You shouldn't need an internet connection to set up a LAN between two computers, just a crossover cable, or two normal ehternet cables and a hub. The only important thing is that both computers' network parameters are configured correctly, that they're both in the same IP range, and that their respective firewalls are not preventing them from seeing each other. This post should probably be in Techno-Magic...

Some questions:

1. What operating systems are you using?
2. The computer that connects to the internet, I presume it has two network cards, one of them wireless. What's the IP address of the Ehternet (cabled) card?
3. What firewalls are you using?

 

1. Windows XP Home Edition
2. Yes, I have a wireless card. The IP it says I have is 192.168.0.100 . I assumed this was just a generic IP assigned by Linksys though. I went to whatismyip.com and it said my IP was 24.167.62.35 . What I'd really like to know is how to find the specific IP I need to connect via LAN, or if there's another way to do this. If any of you have LAN experience, tell me how you play BGII like that.

3. None that I'm aware of. I tried to disable all the firewalls (on both computers) on this connection. Maybe there are firewalls I can't take off that are setup by Linksys? I don't know.


The problem isn't that my other computer can't detect this one. The lan is setup, and they can share files. It's that I can't get the LAN to work for BGII. Me and my friend used to just turn Hamachi on both computers and play through the fake LAN that hamachi makes. That was when the internet worked on that computer.

What I'm searching for is either

A. A way to get the internet working on my other computer, so we can play via Hamachi

or

B. A way to play through LAN, without having to bother with that extra stuff. Don't know how though.

 

Each device in a network needs an IP address to communicate. The other PC should also have one in the same range as this one.

If you want the second PC to access the internet through the other computer, use the "Network Setup Wizard" in the main PC first. I can't recall the option by heart now, but I think it's something like "Allow other users to connect to the internet via this computer" or similar.

When the wizard ends, it will allow you to copy some files to a floppy disk or USB drive, so that you can transfer the neccessary data to the other PC. If the wizard doesn't do this for you, set this computer's TCP/IP options to DHCP, rather than assigning a manual IP address.

Then turn off both PCs. Turn on the main one first, wait until it boots up fully, then turn on the second one, so that it will use the main one as a server, get an IP address through it, and be able to access the internet.


You may find this useful:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1DCFF3CE-F50F-4A34-AE67-CAC31CCD7BC9&displaylang=en

[ May 31, 2006, 12:18: Message edited by: Colthrun ]

 

Thanks!!

I found out the problem was that the other computer, in the TCP/IP options, was configured to my computer's internet settings before I reformatted. I just set it to 'Automatically obtain address' instead.

Again thanks.

 

Happy gaming.

 

Damnit!

Now the internet connection is shared, and the LAN is working and everything, but BGII just won't connect. This is pissing me off so much.

The game was working and we played it for a bit. But the computer he plays on shuts off randomly once in a while. One time it did it, and now BGII won't connect. The internet, LAN, everything else works on that computer. It JUST WON'T CONNECT. Agggh!

Anyone else have another 'solution'?

 

Shoot the computer. Twice.

Apart from that, check whether the firewall on either computer is blocking any files related to BG (by disabling both computers firewalls, for instance).

The restarting thing could be caused by memory or graphic card problems, overheating... or, if only happens when playing BG, a corrupt file in your game installation. Try reinstalling BG in that computer first, and see how it goes from there.

 

I think it's from overheating.

It randomly started working again. We took the case off that computer and pointed a high-powered fan at it while playing. We didn't suffer any random shutdowns on that computer.

Fortunately, some damn error randomly came up (and it's been literally years since I've had an error for BGII come up) while we were kicking Irenicus' ass, and the game shutdown. When I remade a new server for him to join, he couldn't join again.

Seriously, I don't see how all this crap can happen just for us to play BGII. Since it's not working again, I don't know how to fix it. It's like BGII has it's periods where it will randomly work, and then stop working afterwards after introducing some stupid error.

Anybody have any ideas?