NFS HP2 Lan Help

Occanadian · Post by **Occanadian** » 06 Nov 2003, 18:42

I have 2 computers and I have NFS HP2 installed on both of them, one of them is with the no cd crack but with a different CD serial number. When i try to connect to a game by my lan it say "notwork connection failed. check network connection" but it sees the hosting computer. I can play other games by lan but not this one.

Post by **SuperRacer** » 06 Nov 2003, 23:16

I've never heard of that problem. Maybe the port NFSHP2 uses is somehow blocked. Do you use a router?

Occanadian · Post by **Occanadian** » 07 Nov 2003, 02:13

Yes I do

Post by **SuperRacer** » 07 Nov 2003, 02:41

That could be the problem. There's probably a way to open ports in the router's setup. Try opening all ports.

Occanadian · Post by **Occanadian** » 07 Nov 2003, 05:50

Actually i dont use a router i use a hub

Post by **SuperRacer** » 07 Nov 2003, 22:31

Do you have a firewall on your computer (like ZoneAlarm)? If you do, try disabling it.
Can you try playing without using the hub?

Occanadian · Post by **Occanadian** » 08 Nov 2003, 06:20

I don't use a firewall. How would i play it without the hub?

Post by **SuperRacer** » 08 Nov 2003, 20:12

Connect the two computers with a CAT 5 cable (the cable you're probably using to connect both computers to the hub). Basically, instead of going through the hub, the computers would be connected directly to each other.

Post by **Bojan** » 08 Nov 2003, 20:49

You can't connect computers with the same cable that goes to the hub... You need a cross linked utp cable to connect two computers directly.

And besides, a hub forwards traffic coming from one source to all other sources and does not block any ports. The hub is not the problem.

Post by **SuperRacer** » 08 Nov 2003, 22:10

Well, then I don't know. Could be because you're using a crack on one computer.

Occanadian · Post by **Occanadian** » 09 Nov 2003, 07:27

I borrowed my friends cd and it still doesnt work. It also doesnt't work for command and conquer renegade, and battlefeild 1942. I ran dxdiag on both computers and went on the network tab and ut the ip address of my fastest computer and i was able to chat between the 2 computers and it said that the network connections were ok.

Post by **Bojan** » 09 Nov 2003, 11:12

Which OS are you using? Maybe the games uses ipx protocol for LAN races and I think that protocol is not installed by default in winXP.

Occanadian · Post by **Occanadian** » 11 Nov 2003, 21:03

I'm using windowsXP Pro

Occanadian · Post by **Occanadian** » 11 Nov 2003, 21:04

How do you install the ipx protocol?

Post by **Bojan** » 11 Nov 2003, 21:35

Go to Control panel / Network Connections / right click your LAN - properties / then install
I am not sure if this will work though.

Occanadian · Post by **Occanadian** » 12 Nov 2003, 17:02

It didn't work