Well, I tried all the things mentioned in your and the other's posts but still come up with no connectivity in multiplayer. It just doesn't see the game started on the other machine. The only thing I was not able to try was your following advice: in the misc section of d3; machine one -useport 2092 ...

Ok, good, thanks. I will definitely that also.

Ok, thanks. I will try these things too. I am only using the WinXP firewall plus the hardware firewall in the router. For a local network game, I assume nothing has to be additionally set in the hardware router settings. enable file and printer sharing and make sure you are both on the same ...

Actually no. I put Descent3.exe in the exceptions list. Is there just one ( main.exe ) or both or even more required in the exceptions list? On the other hand, I tried it with the WinXP firewall disabled and got the same result.

Krom wrote:You put main.exe in the firewall exceptions not descent3.exe correct?

Ok, I tried this and got the same result. I also tried the other offerred suggestion about looking in the IPX games list and it too was blank. I also tried starting a game from the second PC and got the same results. Very frustrating. I'm confident I have basic network connectivity since I can see ...

Ok, great and thanks. I'll try that too.

CDN_Merlin wrote:Also, try this, if you start a game using TCP, have your son try selecting IPX in D3. I've seen it where you see TCP games in the IPX listing.

Many thanks for the reply. Good idea, I'll try this at my first opportunity and see what happens.

My son and I used to play D3 multiplayer on our home machines on a home network. Somewhere along the way it quit allowing us multiplayer ability. I'm not sure but I believe it started some time after I installed Win XP SP2 on the machines, got DSL and replaced the standard network router with a ...