hrbeing

Yes, it works, thanks! It's now much easier to engage helicopters and tanks with the M6 linebacker/M2/M3 Bradley visually. Before, it was just a race on who could press 'fire' faster when they came into the view range. (the computer usually wins) Nicholas

Ah, well, since the missions I'm most worried about the view distance in are those that I made, I can manage that, thanks for reminding me that it's possible. Also I will try DirectPlay, sockets seems to have problems, thanks for the info. Nicholas

Well, my new multiplayer server is a dual 1.4GHz Athlon w/512MB of RAM. I'd love to set the view distance up to say 3000m. How can I do it? At 900m visibility it's like you're fighting in a fog bank. Thanks, Nicholas

uudecode is usually part of the 'sharutils' package (shell archive utilities). So, if you are using RedHat or SuSE you should probably get the sharutils.rpm package, or for other distributions, whichever one is similar. Nicholas

I've never tried Internet play so I don't know. One computer is a 1.8GHz Athlon, nForce chipset, Geforce 4 ti4600, 512MB interleaved CAS2 PC2100 RAM. The other is a 1.4GHz Athlon, VIA KT266 chipset, Geforce 3, 512MB CAS3 PC2100 RAM, SBLive. Is there some way I can set the LOD up in multiplayer? The view distance is terrible (800m or something? I usually play with 2500 or more). I'd believe the artefacts I'm seeing are LOD based. I'd rather play with the same LOD as I do in single player if possible. Thanks, Nicholas

OK, here is what I found: With neither computers using the Dynamic Range sound mod, or both, it works just fine. If one is using it and the other isn't, then there are the multi-player problems I described, as well as the message that one computer uses a modified configuration. So, I guess this means, if you want to use the sound mod in multi-player, everyone has to use it! (I recommend it, it really does make the sounds better, esp. machine guns on tanks and explosions, grenades etc.) Nicholas

Oh, I forgot to mention, one machine is client and one is server, rather than having a dedicated server. Would this help? Thanls.

Hi, I got LAN play to be stable, but now there are a few problems I have with it: (a) Movement seems jerky on one or both computers. This is odd considering I have a 100mbit LAN. Is there something I have to do to tell OFPR that I have a fast connection and it can use as much of it as it wants? Its performance really seems sub-par for a LAN. (b) I get some really weird graphical anomalies sometimes. Sometimes I see a horizontal line across the middle of the screen. Sometimes, the circular bases of trees extrude upwards and look like columns. (this happens mostly when I'm in a helicopter). All kinds of weird graphical glitches that never happen in single player. These are my main problems. Can someone recommend to me how to fix one or both? Thanks Nicholas

Hmm, it hasn't happened since I disabled the Dynamic Range sound mod. That might have been it; if it happens again with it off I'll post another reply.

No, I have two copies of the game.

Hi, I didn't see any other topics mentioning this... I have two computers on a LAN, one of them hosts a multiplayer game and the other joins. Randomly, one of them will just exit Operation Flashpoint Resistance (1.85). No warning, no messages, just back to Windows. It happens on both of them. They're both Athlons, one has a GeForce 3, one has a GeForce 4. No problems like this in any other games. The computers always work fine afterwards, I just have to re-run the game. I have a mod installed (Dynamic Range sound mod), and a bunch of add-ons installed, but this happens in games which don't use any of the add-ons so I don't think that's the problem. I do get a message that one of the players has a modified configuration.. not sure why, since they both have the same things installed. But I still don't think it should just quit like that. Can anyone suggest what the problem might be? Thanks, Nicholas

Thanks for the info.

I'm in Australia; I don't know of any online game retailers here. Anyway, it's too much bother, and I can't afford to buy *another* disc. I'm not made of money! I'll just have to give up I'm afraid

Well, no store I've ever been in has had the Red Hammer which includes the original game, and no store I've been in recently has had the original game either, so I suppose I'll just have to take it back, and give up my hopes of playing with my friends. Pity, BIS/Codemasters could have made some money out of me if the restrictions weren't so draconian.

OK, tell me exactly, how many copies of what do I need to play the game with two computers on a LAN?