I'm going to a friend's house. We have access to internet by wifi but the connection is insanely slow (a few kB/s, not enough to play) so we must play in LAN. However we have only one ethernet cable and no router there.
We have the original game + Voobly. If possible we'd love to play with Voobly features (resolution tool). Any help heavily appreciated.
Posted Oct 25, 2016, 2:14 PM UTC
If you have the original game, there is a built in LAN feature under "multiplayer". I can remember playing with my friend via ethernet cord but that was 10 years ago - quite sure you'll be fine tbh :)
start the .exe of aoe2 an go to multiplayer and use the lan feature. i dunno but i think you will need the ip for that. To find your and your friends pc ip , press win+r then type cmd open cmd, and in the cmd (command line) type ipconfig
Id suggest installing the newest version of userpatch: http://userpatch.aiscripters.net/ beforehand. If you do that all you wishes should be fullfilled :)
Also with only one cable, you need to use a crossover cable. Ethernet cables are used to go from pc to router, not for pc to pc. A crossover cable just had two pairs swapped i think. Newer ethernet controllers can also do this in the settings. Else you will need another cable or a crossover adapter.
I think that every computer from the last 10 years can handle ethernet cables for PC to PC just fine. :D
I just played the original multiplayer a few months ago. Worked fine over LAN
Because you don't have a router or anything and your just connecting two computer together you need some basic network setup.
You need to setup ip and subnet address on each computer.
I recommend just turning off windows firewall off completely during this. (Remember to turn it back on when your done)
For AOE As u/Clemensor suggested you want the userpatch installed I used the TCP/IP option
I had a few networking issues on computers with multiple network cards. For example laptops with Wireless NIC and Wired NIC. I ended up just disabling all network card except the one I wanted to use. You can play around with network card priority but I just found it easier to disable the cards I don't need.
Also I don't know if this is still an issue but about a year ago I had issues with IPv6 being enabled totally confused AOE, but that was without the userpatch installed so it might work now.
If you have an Android phone, set up hotspot and disable data. Simple!
If you have Voobly, your game has the userpatch installed, which includes e.g. widescreen resolution. Just start the game by clicking on the age2_x1.exe (select 1.4). Once you've launched, you can start a multiplayer game and connect to others via the lan - tcp/ip option.
If you want to use Voobly mods, some of them can be installed offline. You could also just try to start a game through Voobly normally - if you're in a LAN, I think the game should route the packets locally without going through Voobly (after the initial connection)