retired_luckycinderala

Hi. When i try and join an online games it says unable to connect. How can i fix this?

retired_christian_friend25

Do all 3 of you have the official patch installed, this normally happens when someone hasn't downloaded and installed the patch.

retired_christian_friend25

I host and run fine on NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Controller which is built into my nForce board with no problems at all

illmike

no i have 6.01, my cuz has 6.00 nd his m8 has 6.00!
does that make a difference thn?

retired_spuckets

no i have 6.01, my cuz has 6.00 nd his m8 has 6.00!
does that make a difference thn? </BLOCKQUOTE>


yes it mattersfor the best performance from the game you should all run the lattest version ( Football Manager 2006 v6.0.1 Build 70473) which can be downloaded from here http://www.sigames.com/downloads.php?type=download&id=357&file=411

retired_ragna

Seeings I got no replies to my request for help, I shall post it again in here.

My issue is that whatever I do, I cannot play a game over the internet with my mate. We both have the game with the latest patch. We've both forwarded ports 10093 & 10094 (TCP and UDP). When either of us tries to act as the server, the check box to act as server is checked. I'm using a Netcomm NB1300PLUS4 router an my OS is XP sp2. Running a 1.5MB ADSL connection. If any other info is needed I'm happy to provide it.

I've tried looking through this forum for answers but can't actually find one that suits my problem as it usually relates to port forwarding or just having the wrong idea, which is neither a problem for myself or my friend. We both managed to play FM2005 online for waaaaay too many hours.

Can anyone please shed any light on this problem?!

retired_curlleigh

It doesnt look like this is the thread for getting answers, so I'll summarise:

Me, XP, NTL 1MB, 6.1 etc, running as server and sitting here with my game waiting for my....

Mate, Win98, Dial-up, 6.1, not good with computers but I'm helping him via MSN. About 20 times now he's had 'unable to connect to server' messages after I have troubleshooted one thing after another with him. No routers or any of that stuff, everything is fairly simple.

Not sure about his ports (to be honest I havent got a clue about ports), but are they automatically closed? He has no anti-v or firewall running, nor do I.


Any help would be much appreciated (although I get the impression I am at the back of a fairly big line)

retired_christian_friend25

no i have 6.01, my cuz has 6.00 nd his m8 has 6.00!
does that make a difference thn? </BLOCKQUOTE>

Unless you are all running the same game version and same database you won't be able to connect to each other

thats explains the error message you were recieving.

retired_christian_friend25

Your router is it set to portfoward the ports to your pc ip address ?

Your mate doesn't need to port forward only the host behind a router.

XP firewall on or off, if on turn it off or allow fm.exe to be excempt.

Remember installing xp sp2 automatically turns on the firewall.

Norton internet security installed on any machine ? FM needs to be allowed to pass through this aswell, zone alarm or any similar software again need to have fm allowed.

retired_christian_friend25

Again 1st place to check, XP firewall on or off, sp2 turns this on automatically, allow fm .exe to be excempt from the firewall.

Zone Alarm, Norton Internet Security, Sygate any of these applications installed ?

these will all stop you playing fm online.