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The Settlers seriesSettlers 3 - Multiplayer does not work?(13 posts)(13 posts)
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Posted March 09, 2013
I can't play Settlers 3 in any Multiplayer mode. Here is what i get:

Multiplayer Game Internet:
When I try to create a player or login, I always get this message:
"Lobby server not found due to network problems."
Firewall is disabled.

Multiplayer Game LAN:
We tried to connect with Hamachi. We were able to see eachothers game, but after joining the game we were both stuck on the lobby.
On the host we still had the message "Status: Waiting for Players" and on client "Status: Searching for open games."
On the host the free place in the lobby is still free. On the client you can't even see the lobby itself, you only have the race-select buttons and a cancel button.

Would be cool if anyone can help me because I bought this game for multiplayer only.
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Posted March 09, 2013
the blubyte internet servers are offline iirc.

network over hamachi is tricky, have you opened the correct ports in your router settings? at least one player has to.

edit: should be these:

3343-3400 UDP IN/OUT
47624 TCP IN/OUT
2300-2400 TCP IN/OUT
2300-2400 UDP IN/OUT
Post edited March 09, 2013 by Oedi
Posted March 09, 2013
have you tried using gameranger? It picks up my settlers 3, I haven't tried using it, but it might work.
Posted March 09, 2013
This sucks if I can't get the MP to work, was really looking forward to trying to get my friends into playing it!

Any further ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Posted March 09, 2013
FYI, i can't seem to get a multiplayer session going on the Internet direct from the game (it says it can't find any sessions), but I've just tried to use gameranger suggested by an earlier poster to start a multiplayer session. There were not enough free players to start my own session, but it seems there were multiplayer games going on already which are working. Maybe with more players we can get more MP sessions working?
Posted March 10, 2013
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DHR107: This sucks if I can't get the MP to work, was really looking forward to trying to get my friends into playing it!

Any further ideas would be greatly appreciated!
what exactly is your issue?
Posted March 10, 2013
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DHR107: This sucks if I can't get the MP to work, was really looking forward to trying to get my friends into playing it!

Any further ideas would be greatly appreciated!
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Oedi: what exactly is your issue?
I click the MP and I make a new new login name, and then it simply fails at finding an update. Therefore it doesn't let me log into the MP to play it. Kinda frustrating when GoG is selling it as a "Single player and multiplayer" game.

I tried loading the Settlers3_Multi version but that asks for the serial key when you try to play anything.
Posted March 10, 2013
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DHR107: I click the MP and I make a new new login name, and then it simply fails at finding an update. Therefore it doesn't let me log into the MP to play it. Kinda frustrating when GoG is selling it as a "Single player and multiplayer" game.

I tried loading the Settlers3_Multi version but that asks for the serial key when you try to play anything.
as I said before, ubisoft took the servers down. the game is 12 and a half years old now, you should consider that. if you wait some time you will see that another pop up comes with the message that it cant connect to the lobby server, because there just isnt one anymore. the lan multiplayer still works, even over hamachi.

(just a side note: you have a serial key in your GoG shelf.)

if you want to play online, there is a program called alternate lobby, "alobby", made by the german community to play over the internet, it works and some people are still online.

http://lobby.siedler3.net/index.php?lan=en

http://www.abload.de/img/alobbynfj82.png

if you only wish to play with your friends, hamachi should suffice.
Post edited March 10, 2013 by Oedi
Posted March 12, 2013
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DHR107: I click the MP and I make a new new login name, and then it simply fails at finding an update. Therefore it doesn't let me log into the MP to play it. Kinda frustrating when GoG is selling it as a "Single player and multiplayer" game.

I tried loading the Settlers3_Multi version but that asks for the serial key when you try to play anything.
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Oedi: as I said before, ubisoft took the servers down. the game is 12 and a half years old now, you should consider that. if you wait some time you will see that another pop up comes with the message that it cant connect to the lobby server, because there just isnt one anymore. the lan multiplayer still works, even over hamachi.

(just a side note: you have a serial key in your GoG shelf.)

if you want to play online, there is a program called alternate lobby, "alobby", made by the german community to play over the internet, it works and some people are still online.

http://lobby.siedler3.net/index.php?lan=en

http://www.abload.de/img/alobbynfj82.png

if you only wish to play with your friends, hamachi should suffice.
Got a problem with the Alobby. When joining game it asks for my cd... in the gog version :(
Posted July 10, 2013
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LordChuck: I can't play Settlers 3 in any Multiplayer mode. Here is what i get:

Multiplayer Game LAN:
We tried to connect with Hamachi. We were able to see each others game, but after joining the game we were both stuck on the lobby.
On the host we still had the message "Status: Waiting for Players" and on client "Status: Searching for open games."
On the host the free place in the lobby is still free. On the client you can't even see the lobby itself, you only have the race-select buttons and a cancel button.
I am suffering from the exact same problem except I have 2 winXP(SP3) PCs on the same network! If I launch multiple copies from either PC, I can join my own game. I tested DirectPlay between the systems with dxdiag and was successful. No installed firewalls. I have played the retail version of this game (QotA) with these PCs before.
Posted July 18, 2013
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LordChuck: I can't play Settlers 3 in any Multiplayer mode. Here is what i get:

Multiplayer Game LAN:
We tried to connect with Hamachi. We were able to see each others game, but after joining the game we were both stuck on the lobby.
On the host we still had the message "Status: Waiting for Players" and on client "Status: Searching for open games."
On the host the free place in the lobby is still free. On the client you can't even see the lobby itself, you only have the race-select buttons and a cancel button.
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LordZargon: I am suffering from the exact same problem except I have 2 winXP(SP3) PCs on the same network! If I launch multiple copies from either PC, I can join my own game. I tested DirectPlay between the systems with dxdiag and was successful. No installed firewalls. I have played the retail version of this game (QotA) with these PCs before.
I had the problem too, and it was in fact a firewall problem (Bitdefender in my case). Is the windows firewall active? As I have my firewall in a suite with antivirus, maybe the antivirus programm is causing the problem. Have you tried turning that of? Same thing for anti-malware.
Posted October 15, 2016
Forwarding the ports in my router's configuration solved the problem for me. My bro could connect from win7 to my win10 LAN s3 server and vice versa. We were in different countries in Europe at the time. Obviously we used Hamachi. Thanks Oedi.

Again, the ports I forwarded to my machine on the router were:
3343-3400 UDP IN/OUT
47624 TCP IN/OUT
2300-2400 TCP IN/OUT
2300-2400 UDP IN/OUT

I also disabled UPnP, but I don't know whether it was part of the solution.
Post edited October 15, 2016 by phanyx
Posted November 05, 2024
It took me a bit of time to get Settlers 3 Multiplayer working across the local LAN between two PCs. Thanks for the tips in this thread - they helped me get towards a solution.

I found that with the firewall (Windows Defender) turned off on both machines I was not able to play the game. It would sit waiting for a connection with one machine not able to see the other.

However, in setting up the rules - using a combination of info from this thread and others, I got it working - with the firewalls both on.

I'll share here some more detail in case it helps others..

In Windows Defender, the following steps allow you to configure rules:-
- New rule
- Custom
- The program path (select the relevant exe from below)
- Protocol type (choose UDP or TCP)
- Change Local port or Remote port to Specific Ports (or leave as All Ports) (as below)
- Allow all IPs (no change)
- Allow or Block the connection (as below)
- Choose the network you're connected to
- Name it

I created 7 rules:-

For C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Settlers 3 Ultimate\s3_multi.exe
- Outbound rule, Local Any, Remote UDP 1900, BLOCK
- Inbound rule Local TCP 2300-2400, Remote Any, ALLOW
- Inbound rule Local UDP 2300-2400, Remote Any, ALLOW
- Inbound rule Local TCP 47624, Remote Any, ALLOW
- Inbound rule Local UDP 47624, Remote Any, ALLOW

For C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64\dplaysvr.exe
- DirectPlay Helper, UDP all, ALLOW, Any, Any
- DirectPlay Helper, TCP all, ALLOW, Any, Any

(These rules came from seeing what the aLobby tool set up, and mirroring those - not using aLobby as I didn't need it for local LAN play).
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