LAN issues.

**Moneybags14** · November 24, 2013, 02:04 PM

Hello friends I am stuck on a problem that I have not encountered before. When I try to play with my buddies over the Local Area Network I cannot see them in the lobby and therefore cannot see the game. However the 3 of them can see each other just fine but cannot see me. Is there something that I might have done to compromise my LAN setting on MTW2? Because I can connect to them on other games over LAN.

Thank you in advance for trying to help me solve this.

**Moneybags14** · November 28, 2013, 11:18 AM

Bump,

Methods tried:

Disabling firewall, opening ports, I can ping the target computer through the LAN but still cannot see players in the LAN lobby.

**PoleCat** · November 30, 2013, 05:12 AM

I'll let you know beforehand I'm rusty at this but please do the following - check your [medieval2.preferences.cfg] file and tell me what you see after the line "use_ip=". Good luck!

**Moneybags14** · December 01, 2013, 04:36 PM

There is nothing after it. No value is entered.

**irishron** · December 01, 2013, 04:47 PM

Just on an off-chance, have you tried different values? You can set the file to read-only to keep the game from undoing your handiwork.

**Moneybags14** · December 02, 2013, 01:25 PM

Entered in my current IP address and it still didn't work. I tried the default gateway and when I clicked on local area network ingame, it told me LAN unavailable. I'm really confused as to why this is happening. Could it be something in the registry?

**irishron** · December 02, 2013, 01:35 PM

Maybe. I have found some strange over the years. I have also had to change some registry value with my fingers crossed.

**Moneybags14** · December 03, 2013, 07:45 PM

Checked the registry, didn't find anything outta the ordinary. I really have no idea... I'll keep at it. Thanks for the help

**PoleCat** · December 05, 2013, 07:30 PM

What lobby are you using to try connecting? Hamachi? Have you made sure that all necessary ports are open on your modem/router?

**irishron** · December 05, 2013, 07:33 PM

If oyou are trying to use Hamachi and have Gamespy arcade installed you probably will have to uninstall Gamespy to get it to work.

**Moneybags14** · December 07, 2013, 04:57 PM

If I use hamachi it works and I can see the other players. But I really don't wanna use hamachi. I don't get why I can see on hamachi and not on my LAN.