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#1: Online problems? Play CC online in GameRanger instead Author: Scott_Kevill,

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 5:25 am
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Hi all, just thought I'd let you know about a new multiplayer network I've created for playing the Close Combat series online called GameRanger. The actual list is:
- Close Combat I
- Close Combat I Demo
- Close Combat II: A Bridge Too Far
- Close Combat II: A Bridge Too Far Demo
- Close Combat III: The Russian Front
- Close Combat III: The Russian Front Demo
- Close Combat IV: Battle of the Bulge
- Close Combat IV: Battle of the Bulge Demo
- Close Combat V: Invasion Normandy
- Close Combat V: Invasion Normandy Demo
- Close Combat: Cross of Iron
- Close Combat: Modern Tactics

Basically, GameRanger makes it quick and easy to play your friends online.

It has full lobby support for over 500 different games and demos (including the Close Combat series, of course), without the hassles and headaches that usually happen with network connections (eg. routers & firewalls).

Based on the threads in this forum, it looks like quite a few people have been having problems.

I'm really excited to be releasing it, and hope it helps boost the CCS community by allowing people to play that were unable to until now due to problems with opening ports, etc. The more barriers that can be removed, the more likely the community will stay strong, as new users won't be put off. You should find this far simpler than the other cumbersome methods you have been forced to use.

You can download it at www.GameRanger.com

#2: Author: Therion,

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:33 am
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Too bad that it doesn't work on Win98.

#3: Author: Scott_Kevill,

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:34 am
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Therion wrote:

Too bad that it doesn't work on Win98.

Yeah, sorry about that. I would have liked to support Win98 for a lot of the older games, but it just wasn't possible.

#4: Author: Panzermayer,

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:08 pm
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Made an account. lets hope people will join Smile

#5: Author: 7A_Loki,

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:16 am
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I joined up, interested to see if any one else will.

#6: Author: Scott_Kevill,

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:51 am
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It may take a little time to build up momentum, so don't be too discouraged at the start.

The best thing you can do is encourage others to try it, and perhaps idle with a CC game room open while you do other things. (Maybe turn off all GameRanger sounds except "Player join my room")

That way other newcomers will see you are interested in playing, and you'll hear when they join your room. Even if they leave before you come back, you can right-click their chat text (or the << Name has joined the room >> text) and view their profile or add them to your Friends List to catch up with them another time.

#7: Author: ZAPPI4, Location: Belgium Liege

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:51 am
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i registered.
But i cant found any possibility to create a room for CCV except the demo.
Anyway, good thing to create this space.
If u can allow all CC avaiable to play there,
CCS will help you to promote it

#8: Author: Scott_Kevill,

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:56 am
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ZAPPI4 wrote:

i registered.
But i cant found any possibility to create a room for CCV except the demo.

Perhaps GameRanger didn't find your CCV exe. Go to Options.. under the Edit menu, and scroll through the game list to Close Combat: Invasion Normandy. If it says Not found, click Browse.. and select it manually.

Quote:

Anyway, good thing to create this space.
If u can allow all CC avaiable to play there,
CCS will help you to promote it

Thank you.

#9: Author: Panzermayer,

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 12:15 pm
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I tried to add close combat invasion normandy but I get a message 'invalid selection'
it seems that the close combat invasion normandy demo path/location is the same as the regular CC5, and i dont even have the demo on my pc.
how can we change that Gameranger will see regular CC5 not as a demo but as the whole game?

grtz PM

#10: Author: 7A_Loki,

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:56 pm
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I made a room for CCV last night and hung out for a while.

#11: Author: Panzermayer,

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:12 pm
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I installed the demo but it wont change....wtf is up with that gameranger?

#12: Author: ZAPPI4, Location: Belgium Liege

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:15 pm
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i have the same stuff...
It appear tham i can use the demo of CCV and play it on ranger but Smile

i dont get demo installed.
When i browze the pc to select CC5.exe receved error message too

#13: Author: Pzt_Mac, Location: Oregon

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:45 pm
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If it works like you say Scott (i.e. fixing ports issues, etc.) I could see this becoming a great asset to the community. Thanks!

Is it possible to create a permanent CC lobby where all players from every version of the game could go and hang out or meet up, instead of just in the general main chat room?

#14: Author: Pzt_Mac, Location: Oregon

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:06 pm
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I was just chatting with pzmeyer in GR, and I was thinking that perhaps the reason some people can't get it to recognize their CC5.exe at first is because they have a mod installed over it. I did not have a mod installed when I first loaded GR.

#15: Author: Panzermayer,

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:53 pm
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I reinstalled CloseCombat 5, reinstalled GameRanger...still the error message.
and another thing, my name(panzermayer) in GR is in red...anybody else has the same color?

#16: Author: 7A_Loki,

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:22 pm
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I had a mod installed and no problem. Mine is in red but it does not seem to be a problem. I can make a room I have not had any one join it so far though.

#17: Author: Scott_Kevill,

Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:21 am
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Thanks for trying it out guys, I'm looking into the CCV/Demo problem.

#18: Author: Scott_Kevill,

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:51 am
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Okay, here's what's happening. Both the demo and the full version have the same executable name "CC5.exe", so GameRanger does additional tests to distinguish them. It has currently been looking for the file CC5.icd, which should be in the same directory as CC5.exe for the full version. For the demo version, it expects that file to NOT be there.

ZAPPI4 and Panzermayer, do you have any idea why the CC5.icd file isn't there with your installs?

These are the changes I am going to make:

CCV
Require: Data\Campaign\Airborne Attack

CCV Demo
Require: Graphics\Message1.bmp
Require NOT: Data\Campaign\Airborne Attack

Anyone see a problem with using this criteria?

#19: Author: schrecken, Location: Sydney, Australia

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:25 am
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Because they are Pirate copies?

oh my!!

#20: Author: schrecken, Location: Sydney, Australia

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:25 am
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Please don't encourage people yo use pirate copies of games.

#21: Author: Scott_Kevill,

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:27 am
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I'm not encouraging anything of the sort. I'm not familiar with the mods for CCV, so I figured it's possible some of them overwrite files.

#22: Author: schrecken, Location: Sydney, Australia

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:12 am
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stick with the ICD search might be a safe bet then

#23: Author: ZAPPI4, Location: Belgium Liege

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:48 pm
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schrecken wrote:

Please don't encourage people yo use pirate copies of games.

U would eat clown more time .

I use original CD for any of my CC

#24: Author: Scott_Kevill,

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:10 am
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Okay, I've released an update. GameRanger should no longer get confused between the demo and full CC5.exe files.

#25: Author: Panzermayer,

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:49 pm
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the update works. full CC5 is now as it should be Smile

now lets see if we can get the community online with GR Wink

grtzz PM

#26: Author: diggin.robat, Location: Land of the krauts

Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:47 pm
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Hi mates,

does gameranger work with Win2000 as well? Or only XP?

cheers

diggin

#27: Author: Scott_Kevill,

Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:53 pm
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diggin.robat wrote:

Hi mates,

does gameranger work with Win2000 as well? Or only XP?

It should work on Win2000. It just hasn't been tested much there.

#28: Author: diggin.robat, Location: Land of the krauts

Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 6:37 pm
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Interesting!
I managed to run it on one W2K-Laptop and got my account. One another W2K-Laptop the install says I need Flash, which is installed, before countinuing the installation. So basically it works, but don´t know what the other flash issue means. Maybe it´s just me and I´m numb.

any ideas?

diggin

#29: Author: Scott_Kevill,

Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 3:13 am
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diggin.robat wrote:

Interesting!
I managed to run it on one W2K-Laptop and got my account. One another W2K-Laptop the install says I need Flash, which is installed, before countinuing the installation. So basically it works, but don´t know what the other flash issue means. Maybe it´s just me and I´m numb.

any ideas?

diggin

Try installing the latest version of Flash. If it asks, make sure you install the Flash control for Internet Explorer. GameRanger doesn't use IE, but it does use the Flash Active X control.

#30: Author: diggin.robat, Location: Land of the krauts

Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 12:18 pm
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Thanks! I fixed it. But now have "Invalid Selection" when browsing to the cc5.exe (TRSM mod). As 7A_Loki earlier wrote a modded exe should be no problem (or is it? @ Loki: What mod do you have installed?)

cheers

diggin

#31: Author: RD_DeathDealer, Location: Bavaria, Germany

Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 5:23 pm
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I'll be on there occasionally hosting Cross of Iron Ops.

#32: Author: Scott_Kevill,

Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:49 pm
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diggin.robat wrote:

Thanks! I fixed it. But now have "Invalid Selection" when browsing to the cc5.exe (TRSM mod). As 7A_Loki earlier wrote a modded exe should be no problem (or is it? @ Loki: What mod do you have installed?)

cheers

diggin

I forgot to come back to this post, but your CC5 should be detected now.

#33: Author: Joker,

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:18 am
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All I can say is, Hallelujah! Been out of muliti-play commission for some time, and this works great! Installed and connected right away, both using XP, and CC5 with patch...only got hung up once, when trying to access the "options" screen on CC while during a game, but not sure that Ranger was the problem.

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