Trying to spectate

**BobMcDee** · April 20, 2009, 02:02 PM

I have just got ETW, looks awesome and I am at present practicing battles along with road to independance. I have Rome Total war but this does seem a league higher.
I am trying to Spectate a multiplayer game and do not seem to be able to connect.
I try with the games an the game list but no good

Am i missing something

Thanks

BobMcDee

**hanibalthegreat** · April 20, 2009, 07:46 PM

sorry macdee this hapens the game wont even let me join mp batles if i get lucky i fight 1 baltle for every 20 minutes i spend loking for one..

**RTKBarrett** · April 20, 2009, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by BobMcDee

I have just got ETW, looks awesome and I am at present practicing battles along with road to independance. I have Rome Total war but this does seem a league higher.
I am trying to Spectate a multiplayer game and do not seem to be able to connect.
I try with the games an the game list but no good

Am i missing something

Thanks

BobMcDee

The game is peer to peer meaning that you are trying to connect to an individual, many things can happen when connections like these are trying to be made. Your best bet is to firstly open ports related to steam for your router and if that doesnt work there are other methods such as a publicly assigned ip address and so on...

**Brusilov** · April 20, 2009, 08:18 PM

Welcome to the forum and to the group of people that can't get into MP very often or at all.

I've managed to get into a couple of set up games and decided I wanted to leave (at that time the PC that I was using had a tendency to lock up solid due to overheating CPUs). Subsequently, I've fought one on-line battle and was soundly beaten. I joined another game that had 'German Server' as the name. I was asked if I was German and I replied I was Australian. Wrong answer and I was bumped by the host.....

I have yet to get to specate at a game.

On my other machine (two GTX280s in SLI) I had applied the 'insufficient memory' fix and the result was that most of the games were not compatable. With my current (old) PC I am using a 9800GX2 and have not applied the fix - only a few games are incompatible.

I don't know if some of the details in this thread could be of use (I think some of it may be relevant): http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=230971

**BobMcDee** · April 21, 2009, 01:39 AM

Thanks

I was hoping to view to pick up a few tips.
Looks like i will have to take a few bashings!!!!!

I will get my Steam connection checked out

Thanks again

BobMcDee

**BobMcDee** · April 21, 2009, 01:42 AM

Sorry its me again

I bought this game 16/4/09

Do I need a patch or update, I was told that updates were automatic on Steam

Thanks

BobMcDee

**RTKBarrett** · April 21, 2009, 06:19 AM

Originally Posted by BobMcDee

Sorry its me again

I bought this game 16/4/09

Do I need a patch or update, I was told that updates were automatic on Steam

Thanks

BobMcDee

If you are online, go to your steam "My games" tab and right click on empires... click view update news and u should see the latest patch as being March 30th