Age of Empires II Multiplayer does not connect

Question

After installing AOE II (2.0a) it runs fine on Vista RTM. However, when trying to connect to a game hosted on another (XP) machine the multiplayer game on XP can not be found (is not displayed in AOE on the Vista pc). Likewise when creating a multiplayer game on Vista it can be seen from XP but no one can connect to it.

Firewall has been configured to allow AOE II on UDP and TCP.

What else should be done?

regards, Martin.

Answer 1

Hello Martin Born,

MSDN forums are geared more towards developers. I would suggest posting your question over in the Age Of Empires community forum located at the AOE support site here http://support.microsoft.com/ph/560.

 

Thanks!

 

Matthew Braun

Answer 2

I couldnt find the answer on the Microsoft website. Did you find an answer - I have the exact same issue with Vista, XP and Age of Empires. I have tried everything

 

thanks

 

Jon

 

Answer 3

Maybe Microsoft SHOULD be looking at why users are having this problem rather then ignoring the problem.  As a developer this is something that they should have already addressed.

 

Answer 4

I agree!  I too am just a developer who still plays this game, and I have been having the same problems.  Seems like a lot of people out there have had this issue.