Cannot join singleplayer LAN games.

[Shad_Blunt]

Wife and I bought copies of SF tonight for BF2.

Installed both our PC's.
Upgraded both with patch.
Start up game.

I create a singleplayer game to start, having her do the connect to IP trick on my computer so we can get a feel for the game before going online. Yeah we like to whoop up on the PC bots together..

Well after the slow *optimizing shaders* start, she gets a message telling her the server she is trying to connect to (MY PC) does not support her version of the game and to please revert back to vanilla BF2 and rejoin.

This is crazy. I am running SF patched, so is she, but it continues to give her this message. So we change roles, she starts a singleplayer game, I try to join to her LAN IP# and same deal. Tells me to run vanilla BF2 and rejoin to play.

Is this a case of EA just screwing it all up.. yet again.. because we never had a problem playing as a team on vanilla BF2 singleplayer games previously.

[Blades]

Re: Cannot join singleplayer LAN games.

Do a clean install of vanilla bf2, then install special forces, THEN install the 1.12 paatch. This fixed most problems for me.

[Shad_Blunt]

Re: Cannot join singleplayer LAN games.

Are the problems being experienced from having already patched bf2 to 1.12 then installing SF then having to patch again?

Only ask because my install of bf2 is about 2 weeks old now and haven't messed around with any mini-mods at all. Did a clean WinXP install 2 weeks back because it was taking me nearly 10 minutes to verify into online games, while my wife was verifying and getting in games in less than a minute at the time. And I have a faster PC than her.

Also while typing this out, wife tried to go into an online game, and she just got the same message as we were getting trying to get into the singleplayer lan trick. Telling her she needs to revert back to vanilla BF2 to get into a SF sever. Jeez EA! :evil: I guess we do pay to beta-test these games for them these days.

[Shad_Blunt]

Re: Cannot join singleplayer LAN games.

It's sorted.

Wife did a reinstall and now hers is working properly.
I wasn't having the online problem so we figured it was something with her computer, she did have a few mini-mods installed on hers.

OT: I remember when my IL-2 Sturmovik/Pacific Fighters game wouldn't play one day after months of being perfect. With no idea of what went wrong I uninstalled the whole mess. Then it took well over an hour to Install original game, Forgotten Battles mod, Aces Expansion mod, Pacific Fighters Expansion Mod, then had to patch the whole entire she-bang.

Guess games get screwy after awhile of hanging out on the ol' HD.