tomnhanni

Hi, My friend just bought ofp with the gold upgrade. He wants to play with our clan on the net. We all have ver 1.46 and win98. We installed it together and the game works fine with the gold upgrade which is ver1.30. However if he wants to play with us he needs 1.46, right? Heres the problem when I do the upgrade to 1.46 everything goes fine it verifies the game version then sucessfully upgrades it to ver 1.46. Then when we go to play the game--nothing happens. I double clicked about 10000 times and theres no disk activity-nothing. I thought whats this and I uninstalled the game, deleted the whole folder so there was nothing left. Re-installed the game but this time without the gold upgrade. And then applied the upgrades one after the other till it was 1.46 (exactly the way I did it with my setup) and still--nothing. I even let the cd autorun and clicked play and still nothing. I checked the tasks that were running with ctrl-alt-del and there was no game running. I know the game will run on his system cuz we did it with the gold upgrade it's just something with 1.46 where it wont kick in. Really wierd. So then I again uninstalled it and reinstalled it with the gold upgrade-- just ver1.30 and it worked again. Is this an Xp problem? Can anyone help me.

I had a problem before with not being able to play or edit multiplayer levels offline. Apperently ofp needs an active connection to create a server or client. I found a workaround for that by installing a second dialup adapter and a virtual private network adapter in my network settings. And then assingning a ip address in the tcp/ip settings. With this installed I was able to play/edit multiplayer levels offline. With this set up and I check winipcfg, I always have an active ip address-- the one I assinged. The only question I have and maybe someone else can help me out, is howcome my friend can play multiplayer levels offline but he has no active connection running. If I look in his winipcfg the ip address is 0.0.0.0 --inactive-- but he can still create server/client. However I cannot unless I have an active ip adress. If I don't have the other tcp/ip settings for a assinged ip address setup and just leave it to select an automatic ip adr., then when I try to play offline, the game won't let me create a server. I have the same version game he has, the same OS he has and the same network settings he has but he can do it, I can't. It really frustrates me. I could just be happy and leave it the way I have it setup cuz it works but the only drawback is when I have the assinged ip address to my second dial up adapter for the VPN adapter, and I shutdown my PC, the PC hangs at the "shutting down windows" screen and I just have to turn off the power. Any advice would be appreaciated.