Hello everyone. I am having a VERY similiar problem and have looked everywhere for solution; no help. 3 e-mail to EA tech, 4 phone calls; not working still. OK, so I have two machines (an XP and an ME) behind a linksys ethernet (non-wireless) router. I'm trying to play a LAN game. I have two legal copies of the game w/ diff. serials. Did a clean install and patched to 1.7. Great. Both run single player fine. Both can join the same game lobby and talk to each other in network play, click accept, etc. Everything is fine until the host hits play and then, regardless of who is the host, the XP machine only shows its own progress bar while the ME machine shows both. Eventually, the game says that both have disconnected. Now, here's the REALLY weird part.
For the first, and ONLY the first LAN game I tried with these two systems, everything worked fine. Then, after NO changes to the best of my knowledge and a few hours later, this problem has started and won't go away, even after clean re-installs, testing direct play, opening all sorts of ports, and a few dozen other things. EA doesn't seem to have any answer, if anyone here does, please help! Thanks so much. I can also post pics or even a FRAPS movie of the error happening if necessary (although movie is more than 2 megs prob.).
