Issues with Broodwar UDP LAN Play

ThaJakester

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November 27 2023 04:02 GMT

I tried googling all over but to no avail. I'm attempting to UDP LAN version 1.16.1 of Broodwar across 3 computers. 2 computers are Windows 10, and the 3rd is Windows XP lol. I'm doing this in hopes for a future friend Broodwar LAN party. So, I am trying to better understand UDP LAN in general. My firewalls allow Brood War safe passage, and I manually installed Bonjour (which apparently Broodwar automatically installs Bonjour anyway???) I had success LANing up on Broodwar 10 years ago on Windows 7...so IDK why I am struggling with this now

And upon googling, a user somewhere said that in order to get Windows XP to run Broodwar UDP LAN, "IPX network protocols need to be installed..." And I don't even know where to begin with this. I am just completely lost with all of this :/ I appreciate any insight. Y'all are radical!

Xeofreestyler

Belgium6787 Posts

November 27 2023 10:51 GMT

To activate protocols follow these steps https://legacy.3drealms.com/tech/ipx.html

But tbh I haven't used bw in lan for more than 15 years so idk if you'll get it working. gl!

Rus_Brain

Russian Federation1894 Posts

November 28 2023 01:48 GMT

Solution is here, but the problem is to find IPX protocol installation for Win 10+
+ Show Spoiler +

iFU.pauline

France1776 Posts

November 28 2023 10:07 GMT

Maybe you could investigate with using Hamachi, this is old stuff but here is the most recent article about it

hamachibw

s_k_911

China363 Posts

December 07 2023 08:11 GMT

sc:re use bonjour for lan with udp.

sc1.16 use windows normal lan. All pc should be in the same lan workgroup and can ping each other.

XP is such an old system.Some virtual lan software cannot support XP.

For win7 win10 win11,I pefer softether to build a virtual lan for all sc players,and it really works.

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