Comments on: Age of Empires II (AOE2) Multiplayer Problems

By: Hussein Duvigneau

Hussein Duvigneau — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:08:19 +0000

About the fancy colours in windows 7/vista. You can get rid of this effect by tabbing out closing explorer.exe from your processes before starting a match. It is possible to write a script to close explorer, launch the game, and then reopen explorer.exe upon closing the game.

By: Nakul

Nakul — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:52:16 +0000

thanks a lot
ur guide is just great and awesome

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:17:18 +0000

I usually obtain an IP address from gamespy acrade, and then enter the address through AOEII, the conquerors. However, I am never able to find any of the ip addresses on AOE II-CONQ. I am not using a router (direct DSL connection), and do not have a firewall. I have left Windows XP un-updated to see if the updates were the problem. Any advice ?

By: Scott Kevill

Scott Kevill — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:28:21 +0000

Hi, I’m the developer of GameRanger.

Thanks for the mention. You are right that GameRanger routes all traffic through a single port, however the majority of people do not need to configure their router at all.

In general, GameRanger is more transparent with routers than even Hamachi, which is why it has become so popular so quickly with AoE2.