Can't host game on LAN - get a strange error screen
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Can't host game on LAN - get a strange error screen
Last night, we were playing Giants just fine on our LAN.
Now, whoever tries to host a game, gets a strange blue screen, with this text on it;
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Wintry Cool game error screen
Cannot host a multiplayer game (code 80158320). Is there a network connection?
Enter to continue
Escape to exit
Our network is fine - we can share files, and play other network games.
We are running Windows XP.
The error seems to have started after we ran Windows XP "Network Setup" to configure internet connection sharing, at which point all the IP addresses changed - but why would that affect trying to start a host? We re-installed Giants, but it didn't make a difference.
Now, whoever tries to host a game, gets a strange blue screen, with this text on it;
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Wintry Cool game error screen
Cannot host a multiplayer game (code 80158320). Is there a network connection?
Enter to continue
Escape to exit
Our network is fine - we can share files, and play other network games.
We are running Windows XP.
The error seems to have started after we ran Windows XP "Network Setup" to configure internet connection sharing, at which point all the IP addresses changed - but why would that affect trying to start a host? We re-installed Giants, but it didn't make a difference.
- Nullpointer
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This is an issue with Windows XP (and 2000?), it happens to my lan only computer (the PC with all the Giants stuff on it is NOT connected to the internet of course, I'm not as careless as the HL2 developers were) whenever the network switch is powered off (so Win XP reports "no network cable connected").
This might depend on the order of network adapters (LAN and Internet, maybe also some defunct ones on your PC), Giants takes the first one and if there's no connection it does not take the next one but fails with that wintry error.
This might depend on the order of network adapters (LAN and Internet, maybe also some defunct ones on your PC), Giants takes the first one and if there's no connection it does not take the next one but fails with that wintry error.
Man, thanks Nullpointer!! That would make sense - I'm running WinXP, and it only happened after I set up internet connection sharing on Windows XP (did the whole "Network Setup Wizard", this computer connects to the internet through another, this one connects directly, make network setup floppy, run on client computers.)
All I need to know now, is how to fix it. How do I make it so that Giants chooses my LAN connection first, and not my dial-up connection?
It was working before. There must be a way to change it back so it works again.
All I need to know now, is how to fix it. How do I make it so that Giants chooses my LAN connection first, and not my dial-up connection?
It was working before. There must be a way to change it back so it works again.
- Nullpointer
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How do I change the order of them though? I can't find any way of doing it, after opening Start - Connect To - Show All Connections
I couldn't disable my internet connection either. The closest thing was when I right-clicked on it, and there was a tick I could remove, next to "Cancel as default connection" but it didn't make a difference.
2 of the computers simply have an internet connection, and a lan connection. The third one has both, but also shares the internet to the other computers when it's online.
Do you have any suggestions?
I couldn't disable my internet connection either. The closest thing was when I right-clicked on it, and there was a tick I could remove, next to "Cancel as default connection" but it didn't make a difference.
2 of the computers simply have an internet connection, and a lan connection. The third one has both, but also shares the internet to the other computers when it's online.
Do you have any suggestions?