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Griddo
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Failed to join via Hamachi

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Title explains almost everything.
Me and some friends wanted to revive the good old giants but we cant meet and play over direct lan so we decided to use hamachi. When I now try to connect to their lobby, giants freezes, goes to wintery screen and tells me something like "Failed to open session" (dont know exactly cause I have the german version of giants :? ) I crawled through several posts here and found some ideas:
1st: Maybe it's because hamachi is my second lan connection so (my btw unpatched) giants tries to connect via the first connection, which is my normal internet
2nd (maybe relies to 1): I've not forwarded any ports yet. Do I have to, even if I just want to join?
3rd (and final idea): Does an update help out here?

Well, I think thats all so far. The sollution is probably very easy but I wanted to make clear what to do, before I make any mistakes :oops:
Thanks in advance and sorry for my english, I tried my very best ;)

So long, Griddo
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Re: Failed to join via Hamachi

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Griddo wrote:Title explains almost everything.
Me and some friends wanted to revive the good old giants but we cant meet and play over direct lan so we decided to use hamachi. When I now try to connect to their lobby, giants freezes, goes to wintery screen and tells me something like "Failed to open session" (dont know exactly cause I have the german version of giants :? ) I crawled through several posts here and found some ideas:
1st: Maybe it's because hamachi is my second lan connection so (my btw unpatched) giants tries to connect via the first connection, which is my normal internet
2nd (maybe relies to 1): I've not forwarded any ports yet. Do I have to, even if I just want to join?
3rd (and final idea): Does an update help out here?

Well, I think thats all so far. The sollution is probably very easy but I wanted to make clear what to do, before I make any mistakes :oops:
Thanks in advance and sorry for my english, I tried my very best ;)

So long, Griddo

why the hell do u need hamachi?
do u have latest version of giants?
1.497(1.5 beta) is able to create/join/scan for servers without any other program(gamespy or hamachi)
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Re: Failed to join via Hamachi

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HellSnake(NL) wrote: why the hell do u need hamachi?
Lets just say that some of us want to. No direct need here.
HellSnake(NL) wrote:do u have latest version of giants?
I wrote:...(my btw unpatched) giants...
So is there another sollution or is updating the only way?
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Re: Failed to join via Hamachi

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Griddo wrote:
HellSnake(NL) wrote: why the hell do u need hamachi?
Lets just say that some of us want to. No direct need here.
HellSnake(NL) wrote:do u have latest version of giants?
I wrote:...(my btw unpatched) giants...
So is there another sollution or is updating the only way?
dude, unless u want to use that super old trainer(HACKER!!!)
UPDATE, fixes bugs and makes the game more stable!
& it add some functions with 1.497
mvmvm
more maps
etc
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Post by Glude »

I don't understand very well what you problem is.
Do you use gamespy arcade? To join a giants game with hamachi, you should just choose search LAN for multiplayer games in the giants menu. it is supposed to detect the games hosted within the hamachi network...
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