i am having great trouble in playing c2 and c3 multiplayer,

me and my friend are trying to play c2 or c3 on lan, i create server, but on my friend's computer there is no server,
we can play other games like counter strike, mohaa but on c2 or c3 server is not present,

tell me how to handle this problem,

it's hard to tell, but i would recommend to apply the official patches to any of those games and try again. if you've already have, then provide more information about the connection...

i have applied patch 1.42 for c3, but nothing happens, i tried it on game ranger as well, but same problem occurs,

on gameranger:
we make a room for c3, i was acting as host, i created server, my game opens and i got the sever menu screen of c3 where we make a new game, but on others computer their game starts but there comes black screen and game halts, they are unable to join the game, we all have same version of commandos,

on lan,
me and my friend connected on lan, he created server, i started my game, goto multiplayer tcp/lan, there is no server in the server list,

someone told me that it is problem of ports or something, nobody on gameranger know this why we are not unable to play, while other multiplayer games works fine,

have you tried hamachi as well? it's a virtual lan emulator, i guess similar to gameranger, but you don't have to worry about forwarding ports. btw, do you guys have a router for example, that could mess things up?

we have a lan wire, one end connected to my computer and other on my firends computer, but same problem exists,

i hadn't tried himachi,

have u ever played commandos multiplayer, you got any type of error,

i've played both commandos2 and commandos3 multiplayer, never experienced that kind of error :|

i have a pirated copy of commandos, as in my country origional cds do not come, only pirated are available, is this reason for this,

by the time me and my friends tried it, we didn't have the original disks back then, but it worked like a charm. where do you live mate, which is that country that blocks digital content?

i live in pakistan, on eidosforums.com some one has said that you have to open ports,

can you upload your game at some place and i can download it from there,

here are the ports that need to be opened with some description, but i don't think any of these counts if you play on 2 machines wired into a lan network:

http://www.findports.com/article/commandos-2

i don't think it depends on gameversions, it has to be something else. but could you please tell me, if you have the 3 cd version of the game, or some rar-ed or zipped fewhundred megs rip?

i have 3 cd versions of both c2 and c3,