Unofficial CTP1 Tournament Thread

[ricketyclik]

What's your question stargate2_earth?

[stargate2_earth]

i apologize for posting in the wrong section but i figured if i posted here someone would get a notification e-mail about it and respond... anyway here it is...


my brother and I recently installed CCTP 1 on our laptops (mine's vista his XP) and it started up just fine but when we try to install the patch it says the required version doesn't exist on this machine... even if i put the patch updater in the file it still wont recognize it


and if it's any consolation for putting this in this section if we get it up and running my brother and I might be interested in joining future tournaments

i think i might have the issue resolved...

we can see each others games but we cannot join because it says the game is full whenever we try...

[thehappies]

right click on the executable file for the game and, under properties, click on "run in windows 98 compatability mode". I'm running CTP on desktop with XP, and that helped me get it working.

[stargate2_earth]

my brother somehow got it working through internet servers instead of lan... it works well enough thanks

[Maquiladora]

Interesting. So you could play a smooth games on the internet servers stargate? How long did you play for in one sitting?

Me and EPW tried it a while back and it froze about an hour in.

[stargate2_earth]

hours and hours...

we've played it without freezing but it re-syncs every once in-a-while which is kinda annoying (it says my brother has taken over the Egyptians when he didn't leave) it might have something to do with i left dynamic join on...

[Maquiladora]

hours and hours...

we've played it without freezing but it re-syncs every once in-a-while which is kinda annoying (it says my brother has taken over the Egyptians when he didn't leave) it might have something to do with i left dynamic join on...

So all you did was install the new servers file and play? Can I ask what operating system you were both using?

Regarding resynchs, that's normal, unfortunately. You can try to reduce them by hosting the game on the faster PC with higher upload speed.

[stargate2_earth]

this is what my brother told me he did/used

7-11-2009

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?t=128685

anet-used by many Activision games, I would think it will remain active for the forseeable (commercial) future.
extract the file, remove the anet and dll files from the CtP2 folder, replace the counterparts in the program with these files,
the Call to Power 2 folder may be deleted when it is empty

http://battlezone1.freeforums.org/downloads-other-files-t149.html

server.dat file-necessary for the game to be able to find a server that is in operation
replace the corresponding file in the game folder (where the .exe file that opens the game is)

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38633&perpage=30&pagenumber=2

This gives a method to solve the "To use the internet first you must dial in."-type problem (at least in some cases.)
(In Internet Explorer, under Tools-Internet Options, under the Connections tab, click the LAN Settings button, if the Auto-detect
settings is not selected, select it; if this does not resolve the problem look elsewhere (presumably in online forums.)

Note: These steps were used with success on a XP and a Vista computer to resolve (at least some of) the multiplayer problems in
Civilizaiton: Call to Power with the 1.2 patch and 1.21 hack/patch. (The 1.2 patch was installed only by putting the program
in the directory/filepath indicated during installation.)

[Maquiladora]

Thank you stargate2_earth. That is pretty much what we did, although we were using XP to XP IIRC.

[EPW]

I would like to update the OP this week. Please send in status reports.

[Maquiladora]

Me and hatschy are at turn 61.

[Grandpa Troll]

I would like to update the OP this week. Please send in status reports.

Will do my friend!

[Cuaich]

TheHapppies has been having computer issues for the past couple of weeks so we are stalled in the low twenties turn-wise. We were just making first contact.

Bruce

[thehappies]

I'm back in action now, and hopefully we'll get this game to a swift conclusion (in my favor, of course).

[EPW]

OP updated!