Setting Up A LAN Game.
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Hi there, I am recently getting back into Freelancer after not playing for many years.
My nephew and I are trying to get a LAN server going, I start the FL server program, set my options and it starts up just fine. When I load the game, it shows up in the server browser on both our lists. But neither of us can connnect to it.
I’ve tried the following:
Adding my IP to the command line of the shortcut.
Disabling IPv6 (the ip listed appears to be a odd string of gibberish)
Enabling/disabling DMZ on my router.
Is it even possible to run a LAN server and play on the same computer? And my nephew connected to my wi-fi? I have done it with other games, such as Wolf:ET.
I suspect someone will come here and admonish me for not doing the work my self, but I have been working for hours on how to get this going.
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I’m afraid I can’t offer a solution as I have the same problem on computers running Win 7, however older XP machines seem to have no problem running the server/client on a single machine.
Editing the FL short cut is primarily for running several mods on multiple FL installs an example is shown below the 173.29.3.63 section is the server IP address.
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\EXE\Freelancer.exe” -s173.29.3.63:2302
Tried the IP v6 with no success
I’d be interested in a fix myself
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Hrimthur wrote:
Turn off the windows firewall and try it one more time.
I think this is the offender.Tried it…no good…
Thanks for the tip though.
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- Not just disable of IPv6 - total remove through registry (needs restart). Server must show IPv4 address.
- Log into your router 192.168.1.1 and in PortForward settings reserve 2302 UDP and TCP ports for FLServer so server can be seen from outside!
If in some case u get ??? for ping value - you are still out of luck being able to connect.
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If you’re running Hamachi, make sure to disable IPv6 on that connection too; it’s been a trouble-maker for me in the past.
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I wont be hacking my registry to disable IPv6 for one game.
I have never used Hamachi.
Thanks for your input guys, I appreciate it.
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I have the same issue on win7, but the funny thing is, if you keep refreshing the browser button in the server list, eventually, sometimes it takes several attempts, you will get an ip showing. Atleast with me, I noticed that I have what looks like a MAC address, I refresh until I see my 192.x.x.x ip, and everything works at that point. I haven’t figured out a way, maybe the registry way works, but you can definately keep refreshing until, unless, your server list shows your ip and you still don’t connect, that’s different.
