Not the usual online problem

**NapoleonHeir** · October 14, 2010, 07:14 PM

I'm not new to rome total war in fact im a preety good player, and have won many online battles gloriously, but lately I've had a strange problem when trying to play online. I can log in just fine but when i try to join a game it either just stays loading and i have to press ctrl del to close the game or it says unable to join game (GS) Ive tried joining dozens of games and that always comes out and when i try to host a game no one ever joins and thats strange because it use to be people would join almost immediately ive literaly have waited 2 hours and nothing. I use to be able to play just fine until recently and i can play napoleon total war online just fine ive tried unistalling and reinstalling also tried turning of windows firewall i even bought the steam version of the game since i wanted alexander anyways but still the same problem

as u can probaly tell, life without noob box stomping and hunting down romans like rabbits with the barbarian horde is just agonizing. someone please help me

**Magic_8_Ball** · October 14, 2010, 10:08 PM

Have you installed Hamachi?

**NapoleonHeir** · October 14, 2010, 10:31 PM

yeah hamachi works fine i play with my cousin who lives in central america all the time unfortunately hes a noob i always beat him n i dont know anyone else who plays using hamachi plus i heard its difficult to find people to play with
strange how hamachi works n not online

**VersionLangley** · October 14, 2010, 10:44 PM

double post

**VersionLangley** · October 14, 2010, 10:41 PM

Originally Posted by NapoleonHeir

yeah hamachi works fine i play with my cousin who lives in central america all the time unfortunately hes a noob i always beat him n i dont know anyone else who plays using hamachi plus i heard its difficult to find people to play with
strange how hamachi works n not online

you can distribute your hamachi ID here for others to join

**NapoleonHeir** · October 14, 2010, 11:35 PM

BY THE GODS !! it worked!! i had turned of hamachi but ha dent thought of disabling it thanks a whole lot
ill be sure to check that out too man i thought my online rome days were over now its time to lead the german horde to their rightful
place. standing atop of their dead foes decapitated heads

**Magic_8_Ball** · October 16, 2010, 11:53 PM

Originally Posted by NapoleonHeir

BY THE GODS !! it worked!! i had turned of hamachi but ha dent thought of disabling it thanks a whole lot
ill be sure to check that out too man i thought my online rome days were over now its time to lead the german horde to their rightful
place. standing atop of their dead foes decapitated heads

o.0 You don't have to completely uninstall Hamachi to play RTW on GS? Looks like I just learned something from helping somebody else learn something.

**|Sith| Max** · October 15, 2010, 03:44 PM

i generally uninstall hamachi immediately after i am done with it. it will cause you to be incompattible with everyone on every game except starcraft2. Battlenet is a gigantic LAN network as well u c.

**|Sith| Max** · October 17, 2010, 08:18 PM

Karma is a wonderful thing.

**Kong_babylon** · October 20, 2010, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by NapoleonHeir

I'm not new to rome total war in fact im a preety good player, and have won many online battles gloriously, but lately I've had a strange problem when trying to play online. I can log in just fine but when i try to join a game it either just stays loading and i have to press ctrl del to close the game or it says unable to join game (GS) Ive tried joining dozens of games and that always comes out and when i try to host a game no one ever joins and thats strange because it use to be people would join almost immediately ive literaly have waited 2 hours and nothing. I use to be able to play just fine until recently and i can play napoleon total war online just fine ive tried unistalling and reinstalling also tried turning of windows firewall i even bought the steam version of the game since i wanted alexander anyways but still the same problem

as u can probaly tell, life without noob box stomping and hunting down romans like rabbits with the barbarian horde is just agonizing. someone please help me

I have exactly the same problem atm!

But what is Hamachi and How do I know I have it?

**Magic_8_Ball** · October 20, 2010, 02:42 PM

If you don't know if you have it, then you don't have it.

If you host a game, can other people join it?

**Kong_babylon** · October 20, 2010, 02:57 PM

Originally Posted by |Sith|Magic_8_Ball

If you don't know if you have it, then you don't have it.

If you host a game, can other people join it?

Thanx for the quick response!

No they can't... it's like they can't see me or something. I've only managed to join 2 games in the last month or so and they were both 'normal' sized armies. Could that be clue? (like Napoleonheir, disableling firewall didn't help either)

**|Sith| Max** · October 23, 2010, 07:01 PM

alright kong, i was going to reply to Napoleonic heir being so good as he said he is in the first post but helping you is more important.
alright think hard. Between the time when RTW was working, and when it stopped working, What did you install on it or change?