jonnyollet
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Hi Guys,
I am desperately trying to get Red Alert 2 working on my two laptops at home to I can play/beat my housemate over a LAN game.
He has a Windows 7 laptop whilst I am running Windows 8.
Originally, I successfully managed to install RA2 (from The First Decade) on both laptops and both ran the game. We managed to get a networked game started using the wsock32.dll patch to get over the IPX issue. However, after about 5 minutes, my laptop (Win 8) would hang and the connection drop out (I'm not sure why this was??).
I am now trying to run the game in a WinXP VirtualBox. I've installed the VirtualBox on both laptops with WinXP SP3; and also the IPX network driver.
My network settings for VirutalBox are "Attached to: Bridge Adapter" and these are connected to the wireless adapters on both laptops.
I have also manually set the IPX adapter settings to the following on both laptops:
Internal Netwokr Number: 00000000
Frametype: Ethernet 802.3
Network Number: 00000001
However, when I start the game, I cannot see the other laptop (I can ping the other laptop from the cmd prompt, so they can see each other).
Are there any other settings that I need to change or am I overlooking anything??
Any help would be much appreciated.
Many thanks,
Jonny
I am desperately trying to get Red Alert 2 working on my two laptops at home to I can play/beat my housemate over a LAN game.
He has a Windows 7 laptop whilst I am running Windows 8.
Originally, I successfully managed to install RA2 (from The First Decade) on both laptops and both ran the game. We managed to get a networked game started using the wsock32.dll patch to get over the IPX issue. However, after about 5 minutes, my laptop (Win 8) would hang and the connection drop out (I'm not sure why this was??).
I am now trying to run the game in a WinXP VirtualBox. I've installed the VirtualBox on both laptops with WinXP SP3; and also the IPX network driver.
My network settings for VirutalBox are "Attached to: Bridge Adapter" and these are connected to the wireless adapters on both laptops.
I have also manually set the IPX adapter settings to the following on both laptops:
Internal Netwokr Number: 00000000
Frametype: Ethernet 802.3
Network Number: 00000001
However, when I start the game, I cannot see the other laptop (I can ping the other laptop from the cmd prompt, so they can see each other).
Are there any other settings that I need to change or am I overlooking anything??
Any help would be much appreciated.
Many thanks,
Jonny
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8