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| The Dreaded "Cannot create connection to host" | |
Scott McGilvery   12th Jun 2017 19:48:43 | Hi there,
New member looking to take on FSX in multiplayer mode but stumbling at the first hurdle. I've tried absolutely everything I can think of other than completely wiping my entire system and starting again (really don't want to do that). So, here is what I have so far... Windows Firewall - Disabled Avast Firewall - Disabled Router - Set to DMZ for my IP. (I know this is unsafe, I was troubleshooting) Network Settings: Port Range - 6112-6122 (I've tried 6112-6112 as others had success) Voice Compression - I cannot change this from 24.000kbps Voice communication - Enabled Connection timeout - 90 Keep alive - 15 I then select LAN, type in my name, click sign in then click "Connect Directly". I type in one of the current IP connects which at the moment is 97.89.9.127 I click "Find Sessions" but I immediately get "Cannot create connection to host". I've tried completely uninstalling FSX which made no difference. I'm not really sure what else to try. Helllppppp |
| Scott McGilvery 12th Jun 2017 19:54:13 | I may have answered my own question. After typing in "FSX steam and FSOPEN" I have found a few links where it's stated that the SE of FSX doesn't work with FSOpen. That's a bit of a bummer as I liked the idea of the community here. Surprised not to see that mentioned in the quick setup guide though. Has something changed to allow it now? |
Dave Wave   12th Jun 2017 22:35:21 | Sorry Scott, I can't support steam edition as dovetail games changed how multiplayer worked and don't want to share the information with anyone. |
Björn Görres  3rd Jul 2017 20:29:16 | If you replace the api.dll ; fsui.dll and main.dll in your FSX-Steam folder with the api.dll, fsui.dll an main.dll from the "old" FSX (for example from the DVD), you can use FS-Open Multiplayer in the FSX-Steam Edition. |
| Dave Wave 4th Jul 2017 15:44:36 | Is this true Bjorn? Would love this to be true. Anyone want to test it? |
| Björn Görres 5th Jul 2017 21:30:49 | We had one User here at the GFS Server who used this method, I can´t test it myself because I don´t own FSX-Steam Edition. |
David Figge  6th Jul 2017 18:17:44 | Dave - just tried what Bjorn wrote in his post. It does not work. If you replace the api, fsui and main dll files FSX Steam version will crash. It was worth a try |
| Dave Wave 7th Jul 2017 08:02:14 | Thought it was too good to be true, thanks for testing David |
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