Direct IP Not Working

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Me and my friend tried to play a direct ip game and whenever one of us hosted and the other tried to connect it said disconnected from the server.
I know it doesn't have to do with firewall because mine is not blocking the game and my friend doesn't have one...
anyone has any ideas or even a solution?
p.s: we have normal modems not raouters
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Anti-virus programs may also interfere, be sure to check them out and temporarily disable them if need be for testing.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

It's also possible you have more than one network card on your computer. Is seems quite common now to have a card on the motherboard and a seperate network card.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
It's also possible you have more than one network card on your computer. Is seems quite common now to have a card on the motherboard and a seperate network card.


Lol, yes, quite common.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

It's also possible you have more than one network card on your computer. Is seems quite common now to have a card on the motherboard and a seperate network card.




and if i have 2 cards?
what can i do to make it work?
my friend has a network at home can it effect as well?
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Until we figure out something more elegant, use trial and error to disable the card that Sins isn't using.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Rather than trial and error, I'd say to just disable all network interfaces except one, the one you actively want to use.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

It's also possible you have more than one network card on your computer. Is seems quite common now to have a card on the motherboard and a seperate network card.



Woooohooo i can HOST i can HOST

I got 2 network ports on the mobo and after i disabled one of them i could host
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Lol, multi - I wish I had recommended that before! We've never thought anyone would ever have multiple cards, so we didn't think to handle it. You learn the strangest things in a beta test ...

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Lol, multi - I wish I had recommended that before! We've never thought anyone would ever have multiple cards, so we didn't think to handle it. You learn the strangest things in a beta test ...




Yeah, a lot of people do that. For one thing, I've seen / heard of a number of cases where the motherboard's networking port doesn't work / is inferior to a proper nick card. Or just plain got killded when some idiot tried to plug the cord in backwards. ./clobbers said idiot
Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top
Sound reasonable. Regardless, we fixed it so that even if you have multiple cards it will work now