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After my little tripping incident, I got my network up and running again by buying two new cards and a new cable.

BUT

Now when I try to play a multiplayer game, the server is never picked up on the other PC.

Any ideas as to the prob??

I can't even link with direct IP

Hmmmm

Seems I was wrong, my Windows network works, but ping doesn't on one computer - one can ping the other but the second PC can't ping the first one, and therin lies my problem, any ideas to rectify this?

Also do you have any virus scanning software running? Virus scanners are known to cause here, they really are the most badly behaved bits of software.

You could try downloading a port scanner such as angry ip scanner:

http://www.webattack.com/get/angryip.shtml

Scan the server computer from the client while the server is listening, to see if the port really is open.

Yes, I've tried switching server and client around but it makes no difference, I do not have any firewalls running either, I have disabled the Windows XP one and closed my other one when trying to play.

They can ping each other and Windows networking runs fine, subnets and IPs are indeed static too, I'm a bit puzzled by the whole thing personally...

So you have two PCs plugged directly into one another via a crossover cable, yes?

Sounds a bit like a firewall problem - do you have a firewall running on either computer (particularly the Windows XP firewall)? Have you tried swapping the client/server around? Do the two machines have static ip's on your subnet, and can they ping each other?

OK, basically a few weeks ago I kinda tripped over my network cable and the whole thing stopped working, I rectified this by buying 2 new network cards and a new crossover cable, as the cards themselves appeared to have been damaged too, my Windows network runs fine but when I try to set up a multiplayer game in ANY game the server is not picked up.

In UT I am simply clicking start multiplayer game, and "optimize for LAN," then on my second PC I click "Find LAN games" and the server is not detected, the same happens in Red Faction, Jedi Outcast, Soldier of fortune..... The list goes on.

If you want specs one PC is an Athlon 1700+ with 320mb RAM and a GF2MX and the other is and Athlon 2000+ with 512mb RAM and a Radeon 8500.

Hope this helps.

Please remind us as to your network configuration, and where the clients/servers are in the game you're trying to set up.

After my little tripping incident, I got my network up and running again by buying two new cards and a new cable.

BUT

Now when I try to play a multiplayer game, the server is never picked up on the other PC.

Any ideas as to the prob??

I can't even link with direct IP