Age of Empires 3 problem

[silver26]

Im trying to have a direct IP game of AOE3 with a friend, and everytime he
connects to me, he gets a message "The host has cancelled the game".

Ive set DMZ on, and all firewalls are off. Anyone got an ideas?

[RAGEAngel9]

Yeah put the game back in the box and try to get your money back.
AoE3 is such a buggy piece of crap.

Otherwise, make sure you have the newest patches although it seems the new patches just break something else.

[Bossnass]

I had the same problem. I solved it with hamatchi.

http://www.hamachi.cc/

I've never had any gameplay issues though, granted I only patch when I confirm that the people I play against have already patched.

AoE3 is not a buggy piece of crap in my experience, nor in that of at least 3 other friends of mine.

[feelgood]

Originally Posted by RAGEAngel9

Yeah put the game back in the box and try to get your money back.
AoE3 is such a buggy piece of crap.

Perhaps, silver isn't asking your opinion on whether or not to send the game back to get his money back

[alpha phi]

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=k...973&sid=global
Have you enabled plug and pray
UPnP is required to host AOE III
You may also have to forward ports AND have DMZ enabled.
Is your ISP blocking gaming ports
Charter is blocking my port 80(http) and some of the file sharing ports
You can run the shields up test to see what ports are open
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

EDIT here is the port info

The following list explains the port configuration
specifications for the game:
• Port forwarding must be enabled on the TCP port 80.
• Port forwarding must be enabled on the TCP port 2300.
• Port forwarding must be enabled on the UDP ports that are in
the range of 2300 to 2310 from your router to the computer
that is hosting the game.

[silver26]

Thanks for the info guys. Ill be trying it out later.