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Hi
sorry for my bad english ,
yesterday i had opened and played with some forum mebmers a test game on GameRanger, the max number of player was 4 ( on private games i can host 16 ).
I think the max numbers of players is independent form free account (bronze card), but is depend from server administrators settings for the games.
I have see some games opened from host with the bronze cards played by 8 - 12 - 16 players.
But I am not sure at 100%
When you do use gr and are the host, when you click 'start' what happens? In EAW you get the panel where the host click's 'launch' . When he does that we go into a countdown and poof - we are all in the air flying.
VISTA HAS NOT ONLY MISMATCHED WITH ONLINE PLAY IN CFS3 BUT AGOOD PERCENT OF GAMES ALOT MORE RECENT THAN CFS3 ONCE AGAIN ARE BUDDY HAS GOT THE BETTER I FEAR!!!!:bs:It's completely free to play. As one-eye said, there are Silver and Gold accounts as well, but they are not required. There is a space for an ad banner in the main window, which will eventually be used, but is currently just a placeholder.
As for mods, I have no idea. I have only tested the stock version.
I haven't tested CFS3 with GameRanger on Vista, but all the other supported games generally work fine with Vista, so I don't see why it wouldn't.
-sometimes freezes at the mulitiplayer server list
-some players are unable to host or join
-sometimes CFS3 auto times out before players can join a game
-Max of 4 players[can this be changed?]
-you can not go to desktop from CFS3 or the game aborts
Scott Kevill-we recieved this error from time to time
INGUILX
Control-'1st Zone "isn't found in the dialog " dlgmissionslist.xml"
FYI
I used one of my gmail accounts to register. My spam settings block all junk to my in box. I have had 4 spam emails get past my filter since using the account to register with the client install just yesterday.
Not digging that
We have found that those using versions of Windows BEFORE XP can not use Gameranger.
I like gameranger because it does provide a chat room and a voice option that works almost as good as Team Speak. It has a small delay.
As far as what games are supported I Scott Kevill's answer. It seems that it is game independent to me. Set up hosting for any game you like and just point to the execute you want to use.
CFS3 loads to the game list page and this seems to be the point where some times players' games may hang , get an error ,or time out [the 'check u r connected 2 the internet error] and not make it into the game.
With Gameanger you can not join a game in progress , everone in the game MUST start together in the chat room.
I think also be possible players join when the game is running , but necessary to test.
Hi , on my pc i had installed windowxp sp3 and i have standard Cfs3 v3.1 ,
3 weeks ago i have hosted , joined and played with others members some game on GameRanger , 4 players max in game and no possible for players to join in a game after start.
Today i had started GameRanger program and it auto updating ,
good news:
- in main menu unloked the possibillity to allow players when the game is running (before not possible)
- in main menu the numbers of players increased (6 - 8 - 10 -12 - 14 -16)
bad news (i have tested with Flyer01 and tim. ):
- i tryed to host a game 16 players; others can not connect. I tryed to host game 4 players; others can not connect.
- i tryed to join to a game opened by Flyer01 (he have xp) , i can not connect.
Error message: will appeare a little window with the host ip number - exact ip - and past a error message: not possible to connect at ip , control your internet connection is on and another message that i do not remember.
Hmm, looks like there may be more issues with this game than I thought. I'll keep looking into it, but if the game is somewhat fragile with networking in general, I may have to remove it. Sorry for getting your hopes up, this is disappointing.