THIS IS KILLING ME MULTI. PROB

LiquidBronze · Post by **LiquidBronze** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 12:53 pm

i want to create my own party, and i always did, but now since i installed ToB i cant create my own game through multi i go through the same steps, but when i go to create a game and type in user name and password, the two options create game, load game are greyed out!
i cant select anyhting, and yeah i have tcp/ip selected
what the hell could be the prob?
i dont feel like re-installing the **** again, cause it takes forever with 5 discs
can any one help me out or had a similar prob????

thnaks all

Sojourner · Post by **Sojourner** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 1:05 pm

Are you trying to load the game from SoA or ToB?

LiquidBronze · Post by **LiquidBronze** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 1:33 pm

no im just trying to create a new game, not load one, im not sure if this is normal, but when i press multiplayer tab in SoA, it then takes me to the ToB screen?
it doesnt stay in the SoA screen im not sure if that has anyhitng to do with it
any other suggestions??

thanks

LiquidBronze · Post by **LiquidBronze** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 2:29 pm

Sojourner · Post by **Sojourner** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 2:55 pm

Do you have a session name typed in? It's required to start a new game or load an old one. BTW, I noticed that the ToB logo is temporarily displayed when starting a multi-player session from SoA, but that doesn't effect anything.

[ 08-01-2001: Message edited by: Sojourner ]

LiquidBronze · Post by **LiquidBronze** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 3:14 pm

hey thanks for replying...
yeah i type a session name in and
the create game button is still greyed out
i dont understand what im doing wrong
but it is grey no matter what
i can type in 1 letter or 50 it stays grey no matter what
it really sucks...

Sojourner · Post by **Sojourner** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 3:34 pm

Try selecting SERIAL for your network setting (it's what I use) and see if that helps.

KaaZe · Post by **KaaZe** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 3:55 pm

Have you typed in a name?... me and a friend kinda looked over this bit and used 20min to figure it out... damn I feel stupid

But it sounds like the same problem your having. The create button greyed out. Remember to type in Sesson, Player Name and then create.

patroklos · Post by **patroklos** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 5:51 pm

Sojourner is probably right, SERIAL should do the trick, this was the only way for me to play multi.

LiquidBronze · Post by **LiquidBronze** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 9:01 pm

hey all
thanks for the replys!!

and no that didnt work either no matter what
the damn buttons are greyed out WTF
i typed in like 50 characters and it didnt matter and tried serial
i dont know but this sux thats all i gotta say
later all

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Thu Aug 02, 2001 5:39 am

Don't create your game from your CD. Go online first to [url="http://www.gamespy.com"]www.gamespy.com[/url] and register with them, go into their BG2 forum and create a game from there (using their create game buttons) Make sure your CD2 is in your drive. Import your characters, assign control, click on done, your game will now load. Once loaded save your game and exit.

Copy your multiplayer save game from your MPsave folder into your normal single player save folder within your BG2 directory. You can now load up your multiplayer game in single player mode.

Good luck!

LiquidBronze · Post by **LiquidBronze** » Thu Aug 02, 2001 8:54 am

is there any other way??
it costs like 20 bux to register, thats insane
i dont know quite what im looking for though

thnaks
later

Sojourner · Post by **Sojourner** » Thu Aug 02, 2001 11:12 am

Did you do a full install?

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Fri Aug 03, 2001 9:31 am

Gamespy is freeware, it is still available to download for nothing. The 20 bucks is an optional fee if you want Gamespy's additional extras.

You only need the basic program to run multiplayer

NB - you need to have at least 300MB cache size to set up a multiplayer game...

[ 08-03-2001: Message edited by: Yshania ]

DarkStuff · Post by **DarkStuff** » Fri Aug 03, 2001 9:40 am

I had a somewhat similiar problem.

I had been playing thru SoA with a multi game with 2 of my own chars and 3 NPC's, and just needed to go to suldanesselar and hell when I installed ToB.

When I tried to load my multi game I had the exactly same problem

My solution was to take my multisave and put it into singleplayer (works nice

)
But I still also cannot create a new multigame!!!

I have Installed the Beta patch and the ToB Tweeks from Baldurdash...

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Fri Aug 03, 2001 10:44 am

Darkstuff - what is your cache size?

It maybe that when you install ToB is resets your config...

Did you try creating online as opposed to using the game create game button?