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Little tip for LAN type FDS [message #419298]

Sat, 06 February 2010 07:48

zunnie
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Some of you may have experienced this sometime.
When hosting a LAN FDS when there is NO internet connection available
you'll notice that the FDS takes a loooong time to startup.
This is because it tries to connect to master.gamespy.com for
some weird reason.
To fix this open your hostsfile located in (usually) C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
with notepad and add the following line:

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127.0.0.1 master.gamespy.com

Now the FDS will startup straight away.

greetz zunnie

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Re: Little tip for LAN type FDS [message #419319 is a reply to message #419298]

Sat, 06 February 2010 17:40

Creed3020
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I've never run the FDS for a LAN but now I know this trick in case I ever do.

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Re: Little tip for LAN type FDS [message #432315 is a reply to message #419298]

Thu, 08 July 2010 04:30

Erninnjo
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Hi all.
How can I create a working LAN server during hamachi?
i've tried it but the others couldn't join the game. They clicked the join button but nothing happened.
Please help me!

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Re: Little tip for LAN type FDS [message #433208 is a reply to message #432315]

Tue, 20 July 2010 15:27

Ethenal
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Erninnjo wrote on Thu, 08 July 2010 06:30

Hi all.
How can I create a working LAN server during hamachi?
i've tried it but the others couldn't join the game. They clicked the join button but nothing happened.
Please help me!

Well, if I recall, Renegade's LAN support was never fully completed and is therefore buggy as hell even on a standard LAN. I'm fairly sure it won't even work on Hamachi, but something also tells me there was somebody that used to run a Hamachi server for Renegade a while back... hell if I know.

-TLS-DJ-EYE-K wrote on Mon, 18 March 2013 07:29

Instead of showing us that u aren't more inteligent than a Toast, maybe you should start becomming good in renegade Thumbs Up

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Re: Little tip for LAN type FDS [message #433213 is a reply to message #433208]

Tue, 20 July 2010 22:38

ExEric3
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Ethenal wrote on Wed, 21 July 2010 00:27

I'm fairly sure it won't even work on Hamachi, but something also tells me there was somebody that used to run a Hamachi server for Renegade a while back... hell if I know.

It was me? In Love

And yeah Ren works over LAN and Hamachi. But I think it doesnt work with no gameplay pending patch. I cannot remember how setup it exactly. But FDS was on my LAN and Hamachi network.

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