Since Hamachi isn't free anymore, i've looked for an alternative for online AoW LAN and found COMODO Unite. It works fine and has a chat room. ;)

I installed the wrapper before I installed AOWSM on my new Windows 8 laptop, and it's not detecting AOWSM (not sure if that's why). Isn't showing up in the list of games in the wrapper. Reinstallations aren't helping. I assume this is due to a registry setting.

Oh well, I guess I can play SM games on my old desktop as long as it keeps working.

Hi,
I recently had the same problem and found a solution.
I am using the Humble version of AOWSM but I think that the issue has the same origin.
The problem is that these versions do not create the same registry entries as the CD or Steam versions.

Please check whether you have the following entry in your registry (regedit):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Triumph Studios\Age of Wonders Shadow Magic\General\Root Directory = C:\Program Files (x86)\Triumph Studios\Age of Wonders Shadow Magic

If you do not have it, please create this entry and replace the game path by yours.
You should have an entry called "InstallDir" but this is not enough for the wrapper. But you can just simply copy the shown install path and use it for the new created "Root Directory" entry.

Just restart the wrapper and it should detect now AOWSM.

I hope this helps.

Greetings,
Sebastian

I've done that (very last page of the manual), but the game itself doesn't manage to load the file. It gets stuck after the load bar is complete

Hi there, if the Wrapper now detects the game and launches it then the Wrapper has done its job.
If you're getting a problem, in game, with loading a file then its more likely to be a mod issue. Such as the file was created with Upatch 1.4 but Upatch 1.4 is not installed on your system.

You're right, I forgot to install the mod on my new computer.

Me and a friend both have Hamachi and the Unofficial patch installed. We still can't seem to find each others games whether it's LAN or the Internet connection option and manually inputting the IP address. Anyone know why that might be?

I am trying this now but every time I switch a second team to human the previous one reverts back to AI. Is there something I'm missing?

Which game are you playing? I just fired up AoW:SM and had not problem creating a hot seat game using the directions you've quoted.

In AoW (the original), you must change the game from simultaneous turns to classic turns (one at a time) for this to work. Otherwise, you do get the only one human allowed situation.

I'm playing the original. I thought I had changed it to classic to begin with as I don't like playing simultaneously anyhow. Perhaps I was neglecting this though, or it changed back when I switched to a new map but it seemed like it only wanted to let me hotseat with specific maps. I'll try starting a new game later and pay closer attention to what's going on here. Thanks!

Hi

Software says my connectio is poor. I have super fast internet. Any ideas?

Thanks.

hi,

me and my friend are looking for people to play aow 2 with (multiplayer games)
please contact me on whatsapp: 0615342226 or on skype: lun4_m4ster

Will PM you through the Gog system...

Email wrappers are nice, but if they stop working always remember that PBEM can be accomplished by manually emailing the save file back and forth.